Residence and Zoo

On the 2nd Friday Mom and Courtney were in town, Steve made an appointed for a tour for us at the Ambassador’s residence. The residence, called the Palacio Bosch is one 3,500 properties that the State Department owns or has under long term lease, but is only one of twenty that has been designated as historically, architecturally or culturally significant.

The building went under major renovations in the mid nineties and was the State Department’s first totally historic restoration. The architect who is in charge of the building and any work that needs to be done there explained all of the work and research that went into the renovation.

After the tour, we all walked to the zoo. The BA zoo is a little run down in terms of its buildings, but it does have a good international reputation for its conservancy programs. Another cool thing about the zoo is that they allow some of the local animals to roam around the zoo. Check out the pictures on the Picasa link under “M&C Visit – Residence and Zoo”

This is a picture of Ethan's first look at an.....

Elephant!