This weekend we South Africans were luck enough to have another long weekend. Tuesday was youth day, a day of
remembrance of the youth march that was held in Soweto. The march was meant to be
peaceful but due to
miscommunications and trigger happy individuals the march landed up being a riot, with lots of lives affected.
We were lucky enough to organise an afternoon with
Cheila and David, and their bump. The bump I say is a girl but the father of the bump is absolutely sure its a boy...we'll see! The afternoon was spent at the bird park at Monte Casino. Jaime loves animals of all kinds, so spending a day with birds was just up his alley ;-)
Below, Jaime and Daddy talking to the African Grey..take note how Jaime is leaning over all eager to touch..
lol!
In the walk-in aviary...we were able to get up close to the birds. Check out Cheila's bump...too cute!
Interesting to see that most of the parrots and macaws actually roam free, while walking through a section of the park one of the parrots decided to attack Davids shoe... 
The park, I have to say, is extremely well kept and have a huge range of international species of birds. Below, Ive attached a pic of these funny looking cranes (cant remember where they from). Not sure if you can see clearly but these bird have two odd things happening. a - this yellow nose cap effort thing over its beak (use the crane in the background as a reference on the size of his beak) and b- check how the bird is sitting, its on its "knees" with its feet facing forward...weird!
The favourite spectacle of the day ...the sloth! First time in my life seeing a real one! Jaime wasn't to impressed though as no matter how much he spat, and "ba ba"'d it, the sloth did not move. He did however open his eyes and blink twice, then went straight to sleep completely ignoring the excited little boy in my arms! Maybe next time ;-)
Next adventure is the Zoo...maybe next time Daddy has a weekend off.
The Joe Jardim familia surrounded by a balloon rainbow..
