In the States we celebrate Groundhogs day.
In Hungary we celebrate the waking of the bears at the zoo.
The Budapest Zoo has a bear waking from a long winters nap ceremony.
Complete with adults dressed in random bear costumes roaming
around the zoo and you witnessing them actually waking the bears.
Don't ask me how they wake them, we were late {shocking, I know} and sort of missed it.
However, I jumped at the chance to spend
a beautiful afternoon -reminiscent to our Valentines day last year-
with just my littlest man exploring the zoo.
It was again the perfect day and best time to go,
not too hot and crowded like this summer when I took all three boys,
the animals are awake and active-- unlike they are in the summer heat--
and they had a lot of free activities for kids.
I am starting to really enjoy this tradition
I have inadvertently started with him.
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| The minute the lady started painting he realized it tickled and I don't think he really wanted to finish. He told me at the end that he would have told her to "stop" but he doesn't speak Hungarian and didn't know how to tell her, so he persevered. What a trooper. ;) |
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| Well worth it though. |
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