Day 13 - May 21 - Monday

All of our performances for today were scheduled for the afternoon, so this morning we went to Parque das Aves - a huge bird park! :D Basically it's set up a lot like the Wild Animal Park back home. There are a several enclosures with various birds (and a couple with marmosets) on display, and three big enclosures where you can walk in and be among the animals! The first was filled with a lot of different kinds of birds, the most exciting being a few species of toucans. The second was a butterfly enclosure (where I got to hold a blue morpho butterfly!), and the third was a macaw enclosure (though I think there were a couple of Conures in there too). Near the end of the park we each had the opportunity to hold a blue and gold macaw and - my favorite - an anaconda! It was such a neat experience! We left the park in the afternoon to perform at a school for handicapped children, then at two other elementary schools. After a short break at our hotel, we performed in a park, and that was it for the day.