Run for the Zoo!

Every year the Albuquerque Biopark Society has the "Run for the Zoo" to benefit the Zoo, Aquarium and Botanical Gardens. You can enter the 10K run, 5K run/walk, or 1 mile run/walk and you get FREE admission to the zoo on race day! I thought I would challenge myself and run the 10K, and Michael wanted to run the 10K as well. I only signed up for the race two weeks prior, and didn't have much time to train...but I did it! (I didn't even stop once!) After the race, we went to collect our Kentucky Derby winnings at the track (Thank you Calvin Borel!) grabbed some warmer clothes (because it was in the 50s!..in May!) and headed back to the zoo...for FREE! If you have never been to the ABQ Zoo, you may be thinking..."Cool Morgan, free admission into a Zoo that's probably not that great because Albuquerque is not that large and in the desert". Well prepare to be amazed! The Zoo in "the Q" has everything you could ever want to see at a Zoo (seals and sea lions, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, elephants, polar bears, giraffes, hippos, camels, tamarins, koalas, Mexican wolves aka "Lobos", mountain lions, monkeys, jaguars, zebras and rhinoceros...to name a few) plus gorgeous groundskeeping. Here are a few pics of what we saw today...