I never thought I would see the day that Glorene petted a snake. This was a black one similar to the one we saw in the road the day before
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The park was quite beautiful, with Magnolia Tree's abounding
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We were glad this creature was behind glass as it was as big as us
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This is a tree snake like the one in the childrens book "Verdi". Glorene the teacher noticed that right away
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Our favorite exhibit was the Butterfly House. They were everywhere and you had to be careful where you walked
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One butterfly in particular was quite beautiful. It was a large Blue one that would never land and open its wings. It finally landed on Glorene and I got this photo
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Of course they had Gators too....
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They even had a jungle complete with a mist floor
That concludes our morning. It was very hot and muggy and we headed for our hotel to check in a rest before we headed out again to start our tour of New Orleans. Our drive over to the French Quarter was an interesting one as we took the back streets from the Zoo and got a good look at parts most folks don't visit. Again the GPS proved invalueable as the map doesn't show all of the one way streets and dead ends and no matter where we turned we were still aware of where we were.
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