Saturday

We had brought breakfast type foods with us so we ate in our hotel room. We hung out in the hotel room until Ivan woke up from his morning nap. We headed over around 10:30 am.  

The hotel staff were putting up the Christmas decorations when we arrived yesterday.  They are all up now.  Looks very festive.

Ivan and Nathan

The plan was to go to the Cougar Mountain Zoo.  Madeline was not feeling well so she stayed home.  "Small zoo focusing on endangered species, especially big cats & exotic birds, and with a sculpture forest."

Cougars

Lemurs

Sculpture garden

Feeding the Alpacas with apple chunks, which Nathan had bought. 

This one looked almost scary

Ed and George

Roman and Ivan

Crowned Crane

Wallabies

Emu

Macaws, I am surprised that they didn't fly away.  They cage them at night, but here they are not caged.

Sleeping wolf

Pacing wolf

Tigers

Ed and Dorothy

The youngest, he will play Rudolf at the festival.

Great zoo.  It was small but laid out well.  They have a big reindeer festival starting Dec 1.  We will miss that.  It was also a perfect day to go.  It was a little misty but not raining.  Very few people were there.

The house in back is owned by the family who used to own the land of the zoo.  They donated the property for the zoo.   They have a great view of the valley.

Once we got back to the apartment we fixed left-overs for lunch.  It was time for Ivan's nap, so we headed back to the hotel.  George and Dorothy went to get a few grocery items.

Dorothy came to our room for a visit.  We hung out, relaxed, and played some games. Dorothy and Ed treated us all to dinner.  We ordered Indian food from the Taj Palace.  It was very close.  It was hard to make a decision of what to order.

We went to pick up the food on our way over to Madeline and Roman's.  

Quite a spread.  It was delicious.

Madeline was not feeling much better.

Ivan and Dorothy

Once Roman and Madeline took Ivan back for bath and bed, the rest of us played "Marrying Mr. Darcy".  Well, I guess we could not talk Ed into joining us.  It is a fun game based on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Nathan won.