Today we agreed to disagree and boarded the bus to the city
zoo, Cary always wins these discussions and I just go along to keep peace. Turns out there were several families with
split votes, but they got on the bus like me and prepared for the best. Unfortunately the best was short lived after
the rain came as soon as we entered the zoo.
We made it to the chimpanzee house and the rain started to pour out of a
bucket, I should have known when our guides handed out umbrellas it wasn’t
going to end well. We stayed under the
little shelter in front of the monkeys for 1-1/2 hours waiting for the rain to
stop, but the rain never let up. The
chimps started looking like the smart ones all dry and comfortable in their
cages. While waiting Leah bolted from
the crowd and began running in the rain, quickly becoming soaked from head to
toe in a few minutes. The shame was hard
to bare for Cary and me at first, but once our group collectively decided to end
the trip and make a break for the main gate everyone was soaked like our little
Leah. After we made it to the front gate
our guide told us the bus was stuck in traffic because the roads were flooded,
so our only option was to walk back through the zoo and take the subway back to
the hotel. All the way through the zoo
the animals were staring at us and had to be laughing, the roles were definitely
reversed. We made it to the subway and someone
mentioned heading underground when the streets were flooded didn’t seem to
logical, but we made on the subway and back to our hotel by 1pm. Our guides then collected money to pay for
the worse experiences I had been a part of in sometime, so I handed Cary the cash to
pay as my last bit of protest before heading to the room. After we all showered and changed clothes
Leah and I took a long nap while Ben kept Cary busy and awake. Ben actually slept through the zoo death
march and subway ride, so he was ready to party once he ate and got dry. Ben continues show his personality as he
gets more comfortable with us, I think the quiet shy boy never really existed. Cary and
Ben are thick as thieves and his laugh makes us all know he is one of us now. Besides the laugh his constant eating, belching,
and bottom noise also fits in well with his new tribe.
Tomorrow we go to the US consulate and apply for his visa
which should be ready Friday afternoon. Then we're ready to come home.
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