First weekend of November

This weekend Andy and I made an trip to Alajuela on Saturday and went to the zoo as well as the international mall to see James Bond: Quantum of the Solace. DaDadaaadaaaaaaaaaadada! It was good, I highly recommend it to everyone. However, since we weren't able to take pictures during the movie, I have provided you instead with pictures from the zoo plus bonus pictures from the truck parade.
This is me actually outside the zoo, called Zoo Ave. We actually found it easily from the bus, which is pretty unusual in Costa Rica.

Andy's favorite macaws are the blue ones that are not actually native to Costa Rica.

Me with the red macaws, even though my favorite are the green ones.

I am the monkey.

I tried to scare the peacocks to show their feathers, but all my attempts failed. Here they are anyway.

The turtle was under the walkway. I was scared to stand over it.

The lizard was in our walkway, so we had to wait until it moved to pass it. Don't these lizards remind you of a mini-Jurassic park?

We passed the lizard and Andy is brave enough to take a picture with it.

Andy is literally inches from the crocodile.

Baby turtles

Some monkeys that actually are from Africa. They had 5 different types of monkeys at the zoo, 3 of Costa Rica and 2 of Africa and South America. For some reason they had about 5 or 6 different cages of squirrel monkeys and we thought they were trying to trick us saying they were all different types.

A big turtle with his friends: an iguana and a lizard

Tinsel-town in Alajuela. They are ready for Christmas.

On Sunday afternoon there was a truck parade in dedication of Red Cross. The trucks eventually drove by our house too. More trucks than Atenas can handle.

We heading down to see if the pool is open, trying to avoid the parade for few minutes. This is our favorite street in Atenas.

Transformers truck (Optimus prime) - well, it was the closest truck to the actual Optimus Prime and it has the Transformers sticker on it

I am putting in earplugs on our porch while watching the parade.

Construction site in Atenas that Andy looks at everyday we walk by it.