Lion's and Tigers and Bears- Oh My!

A day at the zoo:

We were privileged to go to the zoo with Marc’s coworker, Tony and his wife and daughter, Alena and Iouana a week ago Saturday. After getting somewhat of a grim outlook from one of my Bulgarian friends, I was pleasantly surprised, as the zoo was clean and a fun place to spend an afternoon. It was wonderful after 8 months of being in Bulgaria to meet Tony’s wife and daughter, they are both delightful. The animals at Sofia zoo are much more interactive than any other animals I have seen at other zoos. I think mostly because people feed them (for much of Sofia, just think America of the 70’s.)

It was a fun experience to get to the Elephant (слон-slone in Bulgarian) display at the actual zoo feeding time. Drew and Iouana were captivated for 20 minutes as they watched the elephant eat a whole, large watermelon. I was pretty impressed as well. The elephant picked the whole thing up with its trunk, and then crunched it in half. Drew still talks about it every time he see’s a picture of an elephant. The hippo (хипопотам-hipopotam) was also very fun. It would open it’s mouth wide for people to throw food in. At first I didn’t know whether he was hungry or had had a bad day as he looked quite grumpy with his mouth wide open. Marc thinks he looked straight out of the game hungry hippo. I will have him refrain from trying to feed the hippo marbles the next time we are there. The bear (мечка-mechka) was entertaining as well. He almost looked human as he sat almost straight up on a rock waiting for food to be thrown down to him.

Hope you enjoyed your trip with us to the zoo!

Take care-

Lisa