A Busy Saturday - with lots of snaps......

GR&DF this past weekend we had some really glorious weather - warm and sunny both days!! Not just SF warm where it hovers in the low 70's but honest to goodness warm weather - in the low 80's.

Rico's mom and his nieces came up for a city visit. We decided to go to the SF ZOO. They had been a long time ago, but I had never been. We had a great day - and you know I had my camera.... After walking in we started over in the African area where we ran into this great looking bird!!


He shared his area with these zebras....


and these large horned animals. (they where far away) Most of the animals throughout the park where lounging about in the bright sunny weather or hiding in the shade - smart animals!!


Isn't this a great looking duck!!


Moving away from the African Savannah we then came to the Gorilla enclosure - they where mostly just sitting around - with the exception of the baby who really wanted to play. This is one of the larger males who was sort of moving from shady spot to shady spot.


There was some beautiful reticulated giraffes.


This is a large pool of very playful penguins - I liked how the cool spray of water created a lovely rainbow. The penguins where swimming around and jumping in the spray.


There was a lovely black swan....


and some more ducks....



There is a great South American Rain Forest exhibit and these where a stand out pair of colourful birds...


Back outside there where some pelicans...


and this a majestic bird -with his great comb and large waddle!!


It was getting very warm by the time we made it over to the Kangaroos - and here they are enjoying the sunshine.


We saw lots of peacock's walking about and strutting their stuff.


In the Zoo is a section called the Children's Zoo - where there is a great prairie dog colony .....


... and some really cute meercats....


The meercats where fun to watch - as they wrestled about then settled into a lump'o'cat to soak up some sunshine.


and watching over all the meercat fun was the "watch" cat - looking out for danger.

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After we left the Zoo and we headed to a small Pow-Wow on the other side of the city. Here are some snaps from this awesome experience...

All ages dance - these where the younger boys competing...


even at the smaller Pow Wow's the regalia is extremely elaborate

Notice the leather shield with the Sioux National Colours.





There where two groups of drummers - here is the main group in action.



These are the older boys in competition dancing.

And here is a snap of the "All Nations" Dance - not part of the competition but an all inclusive dance with those in regalia and those in street clothes.

Sunday was a much more quiet day - all I accomplished was to make a pan of 7 Layer cookies....



There you go sports fans!! Thanks again for stopping by - do come again.

Take care,
edgar