March 31st National Zoo and Arlington Cemetery

 We switched our zoo plans to today since tomorrow might have thunderstorms and rain. The zoo here is free (like pretty much all attractions) and was really good for a free zoo. I think the Calgary zoo is better for quantity of animals, but there were some really neat ones here, including a few we don't think we've ever seen: A Pallas's Cat, a Binturong, a Sand Cat, and an ant eater.

The Sand Cat was really neat. and so was the Pallas's Cat:

A male and female Orangutan each went up really high and crossed a rope "bridge" from one of their houses to another. They are really agile for how huge they are.

The lions and tigers were pretty shy.

Tina dropped a souvenir by accident into the Kune Kune pig pen and they destroyed it. I did understand a Mexican couple who came by a few minutes later asking "What's that in there? Is it a baby? - No, it's a doll." (the word for doll/stuffed animal etc is the same). It's suprising how much Spanish is spoken here by tourists.

After the zoo we found our way to a different metro which was a bit of a pain and on the way had Thai food for lunch. They also had Mexican Coca Cola, which is the same as normal except sweetened with white sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup. 

The "stairway to heaven" escalator, or at least it should be called that:

We briefly stopped at Arlington National Cemetery where there are about 400,000 graves. We didn't stay to look around too much as were getting tired of walking around but did get to see just how expansive it is.

This evening we're going to an NBA game at Capital One Arena between the Miami Heat and the Washington Wizards.