Picacho

I have lots of pictures today. We went to Picacho National Park and Zoo today and had a ton of fun. Our friend P went with us. She showed us around and we had fun walking around and taking pictures. Here’s a picture of all three of us right by the Confucius garden.

There's also a Christ statue that you can see from our apartment that is up in Picacho that we saw today.

We were up eating lunch enjoying the view of Tegucigalpa when a group of gringos came over wanting pictures with the view as background. First they asked us in English if we could take a picture of them, but then one of them was like, "uh, tomar un foto." K said she could take a picture, and the guy was like, oh good, you speak English. We thought it was funny that they thought we didn't speak English- we do look pretty gringa, after all.

So we always are followed by catcalls- it's part of life here in Honduras. Since we are gringas, we often hear random English phrases. Today included, "what is your name?" and my personal favorite, "what time is it?" It definitely made me think of One Semester of Spanish Love Song, except it was like one semester of English love song. I totally relate with that girl in the video now.

We also went to the zoo up there. It was a small zoo, but it was fun. The best part was when we went in to see an exhibit of mounted animals, and a monkey climbed in the building.

It came in and climbed on the rafters a bit, we got a couple pictures of it, then it left.

I have more pictures that I'll post tomorrow.