It is a beautiful warm 60 degree day for February in Denver. Today is free day at the zoo. Later in the day is the Super Bowl with the Baltimore Ravens playing the San Francisco 49ers.
We went about eleven in the morning along with what seemed like half the city. We knew it would be packed when we arrived to find there was not a parking spot in site. We picked a spot in the roadway that was fenced off and closed due to construction. We still had to walk a few blocks to the front gate.
I have never seen so many strollers, little kids and parents in a long time. Once the crowd dispersed throughout the zoo we were able to better enjoy the animals. So much has changed since the last time we came to the zoo a couple years ago when Anya visited in 2011 when she was three years old.
The elephant exhibit is completed and very well done. The lions are moved to a larger area. I guess there were three new baby cubs that we missed. We enjoyed watching a peacock showing his spray of colorful feathers. The cape buffalo with their mustache looking horns perched on their forehead was just coming down to the feeding troughs for their dinner of fresh hay.
It was nice to visit the zoo. The price was certainly right.
Yes, it was a nice day for a trip to the zoo, but if you want peacocks, you can come down to Littleton anytime and see them strolling in the parks around the Littleton historical center. The center has a recreation of a pioneer homestead, complete with animals, but I’m not sure how many homesteads had peacocks. Apparently they can fly, since they do so frequently, sometimes over to Bemis library lawn, where they’ll let you take their picture, and (almost) pet them on the head.
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