A Celebration of Mundanity

Left to my own devices, I hopped on the metro (just €1 to go anywhere you want to go with no extra fee for transfers and it even came complete with an accordionist playing a tango (Hernando's Hideaway) on the Linea Dos!) and visited the Madrid Zoo and aquarium today, a really awesome zoo. The zoo is nestled within the borders of the Casa del Campo, a former royal hunting ground encompassing 4,300 acres with pines and scrubland. The first exhibit you encounter includes all these birds that are free to fly: huge cranes nesting in the trees above and flying all over the place. So many of the water fowl had broods of tiny offspring following them around. All of the animals had huge enclosures, never have I been to a zoo where the lions, well, were not sleeping, but actually had enough room to run and chase after each other. I had a blast with the new 18-200VR lens we bought, really, it's hard to pick any favorites, it's just making it even *harder* to *not* take fabulous photos. Here's a sample: Complete Photo Set with the rest of the awesome photos