Taran-too-la
Katie met a man on Friday who wanted to show off his tarantooooola.
It was large and hairy, and Katie wanted none of it. So he moved on to the kids.
They had been looking at butterflies on a class trip, but they soon became enthralled by the sight of this creepy man and his big spider, which he insisted on pronouncing with an odd stress on the third syllable. He was a fool-a with a taran-too-la.
This all happened at Butterfly World in the wine region just outside of Cape Town. Katie and I were there for two days for more "research" for a "travel story." Butterfly World was an early-morning stop, since we got to the wine country at around 9:30 on Friday, which felt a little early to begin the long day of tasting wine.
In fact, we interspersed plenty of wildlife stops in between the wineries.
We saw the butterflies...
Several marmosets...
Goats...
And cheetahs…
A larger picture of the cheetahs is here. We're limited on the size of our horizontal pictures by the width of the column. The next larger size is way too big.
We also ate some pretty good cheese and wandered into a few very small wineries where the staff in the tasting room was more than willing to talk to us until all our dumb questions about wine were answered. And I didn't even tell them I was a reporter.
It was large and hairy, and Katie wanted none of it. So he moved on to the kids.
They had been looking at butterflies on a class trip, but they soon became enthralled by the sight of this creepy man and his big spider, which he insisted on pronouncing with an odd stress on the third syllable. He was a fool-a with a taran-too-la.
This all happened at Butterfly World in the wine region just outside of Cape Town. Katie and I were there for two days for more "research" for a "travel story." Butterfly World was an early-morning stop, since we got to the wine country at around 9:30 on Friday, which felt a little early to begin the long day of tasting wine.
In fact, we interspersed plenty of wildlife stops in between the wineries.
We saw the butterflies...
Several marmosets...
Goats...
And cheetahs…
A larger picture of the cheetahs is here. We're limited on the size of our horizontal pictures by the width of the column. The next larger size is way too big.
We also ate some pretty good cheese and wandered into a few very small wineries where the staff in the tasting room was more than willing to talk to us until all our dumb questions about wine were answered. And I didn't even tell them I was a reporter.
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