We planned a family fun day in the capital for before school started, and we left Saturday morning (after I had actually spent the night at some friends' because the house alarm next door went off until 1 a.m. and I knew I'd be awake all night until it stopped). Our plan was to see the Aquarium and Descubria (Discovery) Children's Museum. We got to the aquarium a little before lunch and were really impressed. It cost less than $5 for the whole family to get in and was kind of an open air aquarium with nice tanks and pools.
There were mostly smaller marine animals, but nice and interesting ones. And we did see some manatees that they're rehabilitating and two sea turtles.
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| We got whale moves . . . |
Later we went to the mall where the children's museum is and had a great Dominican fusion meal for a really good price in their food court.
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| Sculpture made of kitchen utensils and bottles |
We were disappointed to find that the museum was closed for renovations, but we decided spur of the moment to go to the zoo. We paid more like $8 for the whole family to get in the zoo. I must confess to rather low expectations for the zoo. So I was blown away when we started walking.
First of all, it was huge. You could take a "train" sort of trolley to each exhibit, but if you chose to walk it was actually a hike to get to the animals--a shaded, tree-lined lovely walk. And the animals were all free-roaming with big ditches to contain them and very low fences. It was incredible. If all zoos were like that I wouldn't think of them as depressing.
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