Bacarella Updates

Hi everyone,

I know that it's been a while since we've uploaded new photos and videos, so here are some of the latest. Talor and Layla are turning 3 and 1 next weekend, and Layla is REALLY starting to walk more everyday. Click below to see a video of it happening today at the zoo.




As I said earlier, we went to the zoo today. It was Kashin's (one of the two elephants at the Auckland zoo) 40th birthday. They ended up painting the two elephants in all sorts of colors and then brought them to the band rotunda where they had a ton of waiting people. Kashin and Burma ate birthday cake and were sung "Happy Birthday" to. We stuck around for a while and below are some of the photos and a video of them coming into the area.

Not only did we get to celebrate Kashin's birthday today, but we were also able to see the new tiger cubs for the first time as well. We were just about to walk away and give up when I saw one of the cubs in the walkway between enclosures. We watched for a while, saw the cubs and their mom walk through the walkway and then were able to see them enter the enclosure and search for their food. It was VERY cool!

The following photos are just random ones. Talor was caught eating dirt from the garden and Shell wisely took a picture of it.

Grumpy came by a few weekends ago on his motorbike for a quick visit. Talor watches that bike every time we are at their house and he took advantage of the opportunity to hop on for a few pictures.

Lastly, a couple weeks ago we took Talor to the circus. We have seen it around the different areas in Auckland lately and Talor REALLY wanted to go. There were all sorts of acrobats and goofy things, but Talor loved the clowns most. We had a good time.