This week we went to the Smithsonian National Zoological Park. The day started off cold. I don't normally get very cold but I was freezing. I bare;y even talked to anyone because I was focused on trying to walk in such cold. It was a pretty miserable hour and a half but it warmed up, plus Sil gave me her coat (she wasn't cold anymore) and it helped me warm up. First we saw the tigers in lions in their habitats. Tigers personally are my favorite big cat. They're so beautiful.
Next up we headed to the Amazonia exhibit! The Amazonia exhibit was full of animals from above the Amazon waters and some below! Above the waters we have giant arapaima, pacu, red-tailed catfish, and piranhas swim in shallow water, and poison arrow frogs, titi monkeys, and tanagers . The Amazonia exhibit is the biggest exhibit in the zoo. They also stated on their website that it is the most complex exhibit they have built as well.
Next up we went to see the seals! They were more entertaining than I thought they would be.
Next we went to see some birds. I don't remember very much of this part of the journey (so sorry!).
Next was lunch time. We found an area with benches and tables to eat. I ate a sandwich and some pretzels I packed from home. I was still hungry after but there's no way to change that now. The next thing we saw was...elephants? I'm blanking so much on this journey and I have no clue why!
Next up were the pandas! I love pandas.
After this we went to a couple of other exhibits to see other animals, like naked mole rats. We also went to a sloth bear information demo thing. It was cool. Sloth bears are actually not related to sloths. They aren't slow either. They call them sloth bears because they look a bit like sloths and they like to hang in the same areas as sloths.
After the zoo we had to take an unpleasantly long walk to Peirce Mill, a corn, wheat, and rye mill, built by Isaac Peirce in 1829.
We were here for a very short time (it was closing). This was unfortunate because after what felt like a very long day of walking, there was even more. I am not a fan of walking, so this was terrible. I was so beat once we got to the metro station.
Well that's all for today. I don't know why I was blanking so much on the things that happened. Maybe some event there distracted me from the rest. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed! :D
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