Back from our trip!
Feb. 2nd, 2004 08:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agilebritAnd it was absolutely lovely! Well...except for the part where we had to drive down to Phoenix with a two-year-old in the back seat, for nearly twelve hours, each way. Amazingly enough, he was good as gold for probably 90% of the trip, and earned himself three toys for behaving in such an exemplary fashion.
Since we had to take a day to drive in and a day to drive back, the fun to be had was somewhat truncated. We just stayed in the motel room that night, after eating at a pretty nice restaurant. Got up the next morning, ate the free breakfast, and went off to the Phoenix Zoo. It's fairly nice, although it seems like they mainly have just one of each species of the animals they have, but the enclosures were nice and open--and JOY! they have an anteater! We also got to see their pair of Spectacled Bears wrestling with each other, and I got some shots of that. Not sure how they came out yet, and am out of money until payday, so can't get them developed for a week or so.
We got done there fairly early, so we figured out where the Work Of Artists shop was and drove up to see if I could add to my carving collection. They didn't have any carvings by my favorite artist (Eleazar Morales), and I wavered back and forth between really splurging on a $300 carving or going conservative with a couple that were about half that, and wound up with a very nice kitty by Jacobo and Maria Angeles--which was the cheaper one. This is the third carving by them that I have now.
Next morning, again with the free breakfast, and off the the Wildlife World Zoo on the other side of town. It seems newer, and they have a lot of African hoofed stock that you don't see very often, plus Cape Hunting Dogs, and New Guinea Singing Dogs. They also had three baby tigers, two of whom were white. Just adorable.
We got back to the hotel in time to watch the last three quarters of the Super Bowl, which was a great game (even though the team we were rooting for lost), but the halftime show sucked and the commercials were (for the most part) lame. The only three that stood out were the one where the donkey wanted to be a Budweiser Clydesdale, which we thought was the best; the Sierra Mist one where the guy cannonballed into the pitcher of ice water, followed by his dog; and the other Budweiser one where the lady got fried by the candle after the horse *ahem* broke wind (which stood out because of its incredible juvenileness. What are we? Six years old? Yeesh).
And then we drove back. And now we're home, ready to go into the trenches of scribbling fic again. Whee! LOL
Since we had to take a day to drive in and a day to drive back, the fun to be had was somewhat truncated. We just stayed in the motel room that night, after eating at a pretty nice restaurant. Got up the next morning, ate the free breakfast, and went off to the Phoenix Zoo. It's fairly nice, although it seems like they mainly have just one of each species of the animals they have, but the enclosures were nice and open--and JOY! they have an anteater! We also got to see their pair of Spectacled Bears wrestling with each other, and I got some shots of that. Not sure how they came out yet, and am out of money until payday, so can't get them developed for a week or so.
We got done there fairly early, so we figured out where the Work Of Artists shop was and drove up to see if I could add to my carving collection. They didn't have any carvings by my favorite artist (Eleazar Morales), and I wavered back and forth between really splurging on a $300 carving or going conservative with a couple that were about half that, and wound up with a very nice kitty by Jacobo and Maria Angeles--which was the cheaper one. This is the third carving by them that I have now.
Next morning, again with the free breakfast, and off the the Wildlife World Zoo on the other side of town. It seems newer, and they have a lot of African hoofed stock that you don't see very often, plus Cape Hunting Dogs, and New Guinea Singing Dogs. They also had three baby tigers, two of whom were white. Just adorable.
We got back to the hotel in time to watch the last three quarters of the Super Bowl, which was a great game (even though the team we were rooting for lost), but the halftime show sucked and the commercials were (for the most part) lame. The only three that stood out were the one where the donkey wanted to be a Budweiser Clydesdale, which we thought was the best; the Sierra Mist one where the guy cannonballed into the pitcher of ice water, followed by his dog; and the other Budweiser one where the lady got fried by the candle after the horse *ahem* broke wind (which stood out because of its incredible juvenileness. What are we? Six years old? Yeesh).
And then we drove back. And now we're home, ready to go into the trenches of scribbling fic again. Whee! LOL
