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Archives for May 5, 2012

Cinco Mil de Mayo Party

May 5, 2012 by Diana

In celebration of reaching our goal of 5,000 “likes” (fans) on the Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest Facebook page (an increase of over 300 since yesterday!), we threw a Cinco Mil de Mayo party for brunch this morning.

On the menu was guacamole in lettuce with tomatoes and a side of watermelon, accompanied by sparkling seltzer water with lime wedges:

guacamole boat

 

And what’s Cinco de Mayo without a pinata?

cake pinata

 

Negra loves both avocados and lettuce, so she was very pleased with the party menu:

negra guac face

negre lettuce face

 

Missy also really enjoyed the lettuce guacamole wraps. She had a technique of licking the guacamole off first, then eating the lettuce:

missy lettuce face

missy with lettuce

 

Jamie enjoyed the refreshing sparkling water, served in plastic shot glasses:

jamie drink from shot glass

 

Burrito‘s strategy was to gather as many pieces of primate chow as quickly as he could:

fast burrito with chow

 

Annie also enjoyed the chow, though in a slower fashion:

annie with chow

 

Guess who got the pinata? Yes, indeed – the leader of the group, Jamie, claimed it as her own:

jamie with pinata in legs

jamie opening pinata

jamie eat nut from pinata

 

She must have left some nuts inside, though, because Negra was eating a walnut later in the party:

negra eat walnut

 

It was a pretty windy day, but Foxie took some time to explore on Young’s Hill with Dora:

foxie explore with dora

 

Negra decided the party was not complete without fresh grass from the hill, so she went out and helped herself:

negra huge mouthful of grass

 

For dinner, J.B. served the chimps baked sweet potatoes, corn, and celery. Here he is serving celery to Jody:

jb serves celery to jody

 

Of course, dinner was capped off with the traditional Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest night bag of seeds, popcorn, nuts and dried fruit. Jody lied down to eat hers:

jody lying down eating night bag

 

Thanks and happy Cinco de Mayo to everyone who liked the FB page for the first time yesterday and for those friends who recruited new fans of the Cle Elum Seven! Please explore the blog and the rest of the website to learn more about your new friends! And if you’re local, join us on May 20th in Ellensburg for Race for the Apes – our first 5K run / walk fundraiser.

 

Filed Under: Annie, Burrito, Caregivers, Food, Foxie, Jamie, Jody, Missy, Negra, Party, Sanctuary, Thanks Tagged With: chimp, chimpanzee, cinco de mayo, csnw, facebook, nortwest, Party, race for the apes, Sanctuary, shelter

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