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| Entrance to Audubon Zoo, New Orleans, 2012 Credit @Ascending Butterfly |
I am back to our Wordless Wednesdays from New Orleans series! During the NicheMommy 2012 Blogging Conference in New Orleans I got to sneak in a little time to visit the Audubon Zoo. They brought some of the animals to us, and gave us the opportunity to also visit them! A group of intrepid bloggers headed out for a fun adventure to the Audubon Zoo! We tweeted them from the bus on the way over and they tweeted us back!
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| Dave from The Audubon Zoo shows bloggers in attendance at Niche Mommy a Spider! Photo Credit: @Ascending Butterfly, 2012. Niche Mommy 2012 was held at The Roosevelt, a Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New Orleans. |
Dave from the Audubon Zoo was showing Spiders and other assorted creepy crawlies, he was very close to where I was eating my Seafood Gumbo and I was afraid one of them would jump into my bowl! You can tell how close he was to where I was sitting by the shot, I was seated, and did NOT use zoom to take this picture!
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| Rose from The Audubon Zoo shows off an Alligator from the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans! |
Rose offered to let me touch it, but despite that sweet looking smile, I declined! It was lunch time and I figured the smell of food all around might make it hungry and it would confuse my hand for chicken fingers!
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| Rose from The Audobun Zoo shows off an Alligator from the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans! |
Thankfully Founder of Niche Mommy Nadia Jones husband wasn't as squeamish and he touched it instead! And to think I once had a Reticulated Python as a pet!
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| Rose from The Audubon Zoo shows off an Eagle from the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans! |
Now this guy I wanted to pet, but they wouldn't let us! This Eagle had so much personality!
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| Rose from The Audobun Zoo shows off an Eagle from the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans! |
The Eagle was totally taking everything and everyone in!
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Rose from The Audubon Zoo shows off an Eagle from the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans! Left: Ascending Butterfly, Right: Rose from Audobon Zoo holding an Eagle
Right before this picture was taken, The Eagle looked at me and I moved my head back and then he moved his head back and we were all laughing!
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Rose from The Audubon Zoo shows off an Eagle from the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans! Left: Maria from http://bloggingbabiesandthebayou.com, Right: Rose from Audubon Zoo holding an Eagle
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Maria got to snap my moment with The Eagle and I got to capture hers too! The poor Eagle was probably getting Flash Blinded from all the bloggers getting pictures! He must have felt like a celebrity and thought we were all paparazzi! The zoo offered bloggers at the conference a chance to visit the zoo, aquarium and insectarium too! So Ascending Butterfly and some intrepid fellow bloggers decided to take the city bus to the zoo and check it out!
Here we are hamming it up on the bus and we also tweeted the Zoo to let them know we enjoyed seeing the Animals at Niche Mommy, and that we were on our way!
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Left: Maria from http://bloggingbabiesandthebayou.com, and right: Laura from My Three Ring Circus: http://kileigh7.com/
We were super stoked when the zoo tweeted us right back! New Orleans companies have great Social Media community Managers, because when Maria and I visited the Harrahs Casino in New Orleans, they tweeted us right back too! Pretty Impressive! |
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| A beautiful sunny August Day at the Audubon Zoo, New Orleans! |
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| First up: Flamingo Cafe, we arrived thirsty! |
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| The first animals we see near the Flamingo Cafe? The Flamingos of course! |
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| I love watching them balance so gracefully on one leg! |
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| Cute Duck Statues! |
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| Disccovery Walk at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans! |
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| It's like 3D Elephant Art at the Audubon Zoo, New Orleans! |
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| We tried to wait for the Elephant to come out from there, but instead I had to zoom in to capture him. Audubon Zoo, New Orleans! |
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| This guy wouldn't quite turn around either! Audubon Zoo, New Orleans! |
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| Everyone stayed here the longest, this Orangutan truly loves people and hammed it up the most for Christina, I wish I would have filmed him! This pic was shot with my iPod, so no zoom! Audobon Zoo, New Orleans. |
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| Finally got a perfect shot of an animal facing the camera! Isn't this Siberian Tiger just gorgeous? Audubon Zoo, New Orleans! |
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| My mom saw this picture and said it reminds her of ME! LOL Siberian Tiger, August 2012 Audubon Zoo, New Orleans, USA. |
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| We all needed a break and stopped off for some snacks! This sign was in view from the bench where we sitting! Audubon Zoo, New Orleans, August 2012. It's like they knew Ascending Butterfly was coming, LOL :) |
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The sign reads: English: The Monkey is Weaving - a thread of insatiable lusts - on the margins of morning - he topples a pollen-fall - startles the violet flight - of the butterfly.
I love that it was also translated and posted in Spanish: Los Monos trenzaban un hilo - Interminablemente erotico - En las riberas de la aurora - Derribando muros de polen - Y espantando el vuelo violeta - De las mariposas de Muzo.
You know if there a butterfly sighting, even if it's just the word butterfly I had to have a picture of it! |
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| We had to hit the gift shop, and this cute elephant was right outside! Audubon Zoo, August 2012, New Orleans. |
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| Saw this sign at the Zoo and had to snap a picture of it! This intrepid group also visit The Insectarium, but that's a whole another post! |
There was so much to see and do at the Zoo, that I had to break this into two posts, because I didn't have time to optimize and watermark all the photos in one sitting, so next week will be a whole section of the zoo I visited unto itself, but this last picture was a sign at the zoo, that speaks to another Wordless Wednesday from New Orleans series post, you guessed it, The Audubon Butterfly Garden and Insectarium. But that one will post after the part two for the Zoo pictures!
Don't forget to post a link to your Wordless Wednesday Links here, Happy Wordless Wednesday Butterflies!
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FTC Disclosure: This is NOT a sponsored post, no monetary compensation has been received to post my recap of my day at the Audubon Zoo. However ALL bloggers in attendance at the Niche Mommy Blogging Conference were offered tickets. I attended the conference as a guest of Britax. I am a Britax Hispanic Digital Marketing and Outreach Blogger/Ambassador.
