Wednesday, July 05, 2006
i love hippos
YES! I went to Calgary this past weekend and I saw hippos! *See MSN space pictures.*
Full story:
Friday after work, Denise, mom and I were on our way to Calgary to visit sister Ada. (Mom wasn't going to go originally and then she thought we wouldn't make it there alive. Thanks for the faith in your 20 year old soon-to-be-Engineer and 23 year old soon-to-be-doctor daughters.)
We arrive to a barrage of blood thirsty mosquitos trying to ram their heads hard enough into Nimby's windows to break the glass to get at our sweet red blood cells. Crazy little critters...
Saturday morning we head to the zoo! It's boiling hot outside and what do we do as the intelligent asians that we are? We bring umbrellas and do it up HK style. Yes, movable sources of shade! We wander through the zoo and we get some strange glances at first and then what happens? It starts to rain! Now who wishes they had one of our three umbrellas?
We saw animals galore! Notables:
1) The creepy diminutive monkey like animals that reminded me of gremlins.
2) We watched the giraffes ruminate. They chewed their food, they swallowed, and then we watched the food travel down their long long necks. Then, we watched in awe as the bolus of food moved right back up to the head. Sick.
3) We saw the HIPPOS get a drink of water and EAT. Oh so cute they were. Aww... I want a baby hippo...
4) We had the creamiest soft serve ice cream ever.. tasted like butter. I had the root beer flavour burst but it wasn't root beery enough.
After the zoo we went to eat at some Chinese place and then we headed to the Calgary tower for FREE. The zoo tickets were at a discount b/c of Ada's affiliations and the trip to the top was also free c/o EnCana.
We walked around and took random pics and we decided to stay until the fireworks started. That's like two hours just staking our claim on a prize spot to see the fireworks shooting from the Stampede grounds. There was pushing involved but we Ng-sters held our own.
I forgot my tripod. :( It was nice though and then we went home and slept.
Sunday we went to Costco and then to market mall for a bit. Left empty handed and we were off to Edmonton!
Work is same old. Still learning shockingly enough. I've been offered a job, but I'm not sure if I want to take it.
I'm so out of shape it's ridiculous... must start doing some mad cardio.
Might move out next semester for school. It'll cut down on commute time for sure. I'm currently searching for a place near the U.. if you know of someone (not creepy), drop me a line. Much thanks...
Posted by norwegian girl at 10:52 p.m.