Today we moved from Monkey Bay to the Belize zoo for one night. We started of our day with community service like raking leaves off of pathways and painting the Zoo gift shop walls with a new lime green color. After lunch we cleaned up after our labors while others took a rainy tour through the exhibits. Colton was thoroughly soaked after he came back because he forgot to bring his rain jacket. After the day part at the zoo we headed back to our lodge. When we got out it was pretty dark so the frogs and toads were out and Taylor caught some big frogs such as water frogs and tree frogs so that people could take pictures of them. After changing into long pants and shirts we settled in for some intense games in the dining room such as BS and Kemps. Then we ate a delicious meal of beef stew, rice, and cookies. After dinner we got everyone on the bus to head back to the zoo for our night tour. The tour guide was very generous to stay after hours and take us on a tour. We saw cute kinkajous and we got to feed them bananas. Also we saw Harpy Eagles, which are the largest birds of prey. We also saw naughty Howler monkeys who showed us their baggage and screamed their heads off. Clarke and Brittani were freaked out about the giant flying beetles that were attracted to our lights. Our adventure ended with a snake viewing in which people were allowed to hold a Boa Constrictor around their necks or on their hands. This was cut short by a sudden downpour but we moved indoors and continued holding the snake. This day was very exciting and ended with a short bus ride back to the cabins. Most of us had a good night sleep but Lamonte definitely slept the soundest when he slept in till seven o’ clock.
This morning we are heading up to Pine Ridge so it might be a few days until we can enter another blog. Everyone is well!
Written by Colton Harrington and Taylor Hoffman
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Wow, how exciting! Taylor is a master catcher of frogs... I do wonder how you fared with the tree frogs though.. I know what they do to your nose. Those beetles must have be huge to scare the girls! Hope you took some pictures. We miss you all, but know you are having a wonderful experience in Belize.
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Oh and that SNAKE... no way would you be catching me holding that! I would have been like the monkeys... "screaming my head off". ha ha
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ReplyDeleteI am with Traci, I would have been screaming my head off to even think a snake was that close to me. You guys are having a wonderful experience.
Clarke you know I miss my Sweet Gurl. Everyone says "HELLO". I cannot wait to see all of the pictures and hear all about your travels.
You guys are doing a great job keeping up posted back here in the States. Have fun until we blog again!