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Caught sleeping together.
Saturday, 15 December 2012
Monday, 10 December 2012
Monday, 12 November 2012
Mandalay Bay Aquarium
Yeah, I know, I'm way past due on posting Las Vegas pictures. Sometimes there are just so many to go through!
Once we had set the date, my sister and I started thinking of what we wanted to do in Las Vegas. I decided to look up aquariums, and discovered there was one at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino. That went on my To Do list. Mary-Anne likes mermaids and aquariums too, so that's where we went on Tuesday morning.
I'd never ridden a monorail before, but we ended up taking two to get to the hotel. It was quite a hike through the hotel but we persevered and got there.
Well worth the trip.
The first levels of the aquarium had reptiles and some fish.
Komodo dragon.
Whoever thought of putting tunnels through aquariums is a genius.
Imagine this being part of your work day - diving through an aquarium.
There was a touch tank. These guys are rubbery.
Mary-Anne said this was a Star Wars creature. It does remind me of the Millenium Falcon.
Lionfish! It was hanging like this, I did not forget to rotate the photo.
In the latter part, there was a huge shark reek in a tank. I decided that when I win the lottery, I will build an impressive aquarium, and it will be built in such a way to make the fish very easy to photograph, without glare on the glass.
I had a lot of fun playing with my bounce flash and trying to get great pictures. There was another tunnel through the reef.
We saw other people trying to get photos with sharks in the backgorund. Mary-Anne suggested that she sit in the tunnel and I just experiment and see what I got. She never looked behind her, she just looked around.
She had no idea this was there.
My favourite.
I really, really loved this experience.
Of course we stopped in the gift shop. I had to have this glass seahorse. The clerks wrapped it in many layers of bubble wrap for the flight home, and it arrived perfectly intact.
Once we had set the date, my sister and I started thinking of what we wanted to do in Las Vegas. I decided to look up aquariums, and discovered there was one at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino. That went on my To Do list. Mary-Anne likes mermaids and aquariums too, so that's where we went on Tuesday morning.
I'd never ridden a monorail before, but we ended up taking two to get to the hotel. It was quite a hike through the hotel but we persevered and got there.
Well worth the trip.
The first levels of the aquarium had reptiles and some fish.
Komodo dragon.
Whoever thought of putting tunnels through aquariums is a genius.
Imagine this being part of your work day - diving through an aquarium.
There was a touch tank. These guys are rubbery.
Mary-Anne said this was a Star Wars creature. It does remind me of the Millenium Falcon.
Lionfish! It was hanging like this, I did not forget to rotate the photo.
In the latter part, there was a huge shark reek in a tank. I decided that when I win the lottery, I will build an impressive aquarium, and it will be built in such a way to make the fish very easy to photograph, without glare on the glass.
I had a lot of fun playing with my bounce flash and trying to get great pictures. There was another tunnel through the reef.
We saw other people trying to get photos with sharks in the backgorund. Mary-Anne suggested that she sit in the tunnel and I just experiment and see what I got. She never looked behind her, she just looked around.
She had no idea this was there.
My favourite.
I really, really loved this experience.
Of course we stopped in the gift shop. I had to have this glass seahorse. The clerks wrapped it in many layers of bubble wrap for the flight home, and it arrived perfectly intact.
Friday, 2 November 2012
Halloween and Kitties
Because I don't know when my windows are being replaced, I didn't go batshit crazy decorating for Halloween. I went for "friendly" and "charming" and "please please please come to my house I've lived in apartment buildings for so long and I've never trick-or-treaters living on my own ever so please come here I have candy".
On the window ledge are little dollar store LED lights and decorations. I went to Vegas earlier this month, that's where my money went. :-)
That white window screen I made this summer really stands out at night. Did not know that. At least it will be replaced, hopefully soon.
I also hung a battery-lit paper lantern from my mailbox and placed a cheerful dollar store pumpkin on the steps, to show that I welcomed trick-or-treaters. And I had to have a cat decoration too!
I got off the bus at 6 and was dismayed to see there were already trick-or-treaters so I quickly hustled home and turned on all the lights.
And lo, the trick-or-treaters came. The very first one was a toddler in a bear suit who tried to enter my house, he wasn't entirely sure why he was there.
There were about 30? In the space of three hours. In my initial excitement I was very generous with the treats, then started rationing them to one treat per child. Especially if the child was old enough to sport peach fuzz, and/or his voice has changed. Some of those boys were taller than me!
When it was 9:19 pm, I'd just had one more trick-or-treater, and I was down to four tootsie roll pops. The novelty had worn off. I turned off the lights and went upstairs for a bath.
What did I dress up as? I was initially going to do a very casual Star Wars fan. That morning I spotted my Soft Kitty hoodie and went a different way. I drew some whiskers on my face and I was a kitty.
And then I pretended to be a 15 year old girl on MySpace five years ago.
The cats were not impressed with this strange-people-coming-to-the-door nonsense. Chloe stayed upstairs the entire time. Hermione ran around the house, especially whenever the doorbell rang or someone knocked on the front door. Charlie was grumpy because he was trying to nap, while these hooligans kept coming to the front door and making noise.
In quieter times:
Sometimes I get to sit in that chair too. :-)
On the window ledge are little dollar store LED lights and decorations. I went to Vegas earlier this month, that's where my money went. :-)
That white window screen I made this summer really stands out at night. Did not know that. At least it will be replaced, hopefully soon.
I also hung a battery-lit paper lantern from my mailbox and placed a cheerful dollar store pumpkin on the steps, to show that I welcomed trick-or-treaters. And I had to have a cat decoration too!
I got off the bus at 6 and was dismayed to see there were already trick-or-treaters so I quickly hustled home and turned on all the lights.
And lo, the trick-or-treaters came. The very first one was a toddler in a bear suit who tried to enter my house, he wasn't entirely sure why he was there.
There were about 30? In the space of three hours. In my initial excitement I was very generous with the treats, then started rationing them to one treat per child. Especially if the child was old enough to sport peach fuzz, and/or his voice has changed. Some of those boys were taller than me!
When it was 9:19 pm, I'd just had one more trick-or-treater, and I was down to four tootsie roll pops. The novelty had worn off. I turned off the lights and went upstairs for a bath.
What did I dress up as? I was initially going to do a very casual Star Wars fan. That morning I spotted my Soft Kitty hoodie and went a different way. I drew some whiskers on my face and I was a kitty.
And then I pretended to be a 15 year old girl on MySpace five years ago.
The cats were not impressed with this strange-people-coming-to-the-door nonsense. Chloe stayed upstairs the entire time. Hermione ran around the house, especially whenever the doorbell rang or someone knocked on the front door. Charlie was grumpy because he was trying to nap, while these hooligans kept coming to the front door and making noise.
In quieter times:
Sometimes I get to sit in that chair too. :-)
Thursday, 25 October 2012
KITTIES
There is an awful lot of this going on, while the weather is cool.
Frankly, it's a miracle that I get anything done, with the Charlie and Hermione ongoing lovefest being so darn cute. :-)
A couple of nights ago. Chloe started chattering and meowing and making me run to see what was the matter.
In case you haven't figured it out - she was following a spider, in the upper left corner of two of the photos. I got sick of her chattering, got the broom out, and swept the spider towards her.
Frankly, it's a miracle that I get anything done, with the Charlie and Hermione ongoing lovefest being so darn cute. :-)
A couple of nights ago. Chloe started chattering and meowing and making me run to see what was the matter.
In case you haven't figured it out - she was following a spider, in the upper left corner of two of the photos. I got sick of her chattering, got the broom out, and swept the spider towards her.
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Vegas baby - Flamingo Hotel Wildlife Habitat
Outside the hotel was a wildlife habitat. Of course there were flamingos!
Mary-Anne's favourite colour is purple.
Mary-Anne's favourite colour is purple.
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