Barcelona Zoo

Last week was "La Semana Blanca" or ski week for the kids.  Some families head to the ski slopes or other exotic destinations during this week, but Bob was gone to Germany for business and so the kids and I occupied ourselves locally.  Luckily for us, there is always a lot of interesting stuff to do around Barcelona.

On Tuesday we headed to the Barcelona Zoo for the day.  During the last two weeks in February, tickets to the zoo are half price, so €10 per adult and €6 per child.  When we got to the zoo, we discovered that because it was the week of Carnival, if the kids had come wearing a costume they could have gotten in for free!  We'll know better for next year.  Going to the zoo during ski week has become somewhat of a tradition as we did the same thing last year with friends Manju and her son Asvin.  This year Manju's husband and older son came with us as well and Ciara's friend Mia from her class at school.

The Barcelona zoo is a pretty nice zoo.  I like the fact that it's not too big (like the Toronto zoo) and you can really see a lot of animals up close.  There is also a cool dolphin show (all in Catalan though), petting zoo and some playgrounds, in any case enough to keep kids of all ages busy for hours.  It's also located within Parc de la Cituadella which is a really beautiful park in the centre of Barcelona.

Dolphin Show 

We arrived just in time to see the penguins get fed.  We were so close we could have touched them.

Nathan, Aryn, Rylan, Asvin, Cole, Mia and Ciara

Everyone loves capybaras

We thought this fruit juice stand was funny.