Lions and Tigers and Bears Oh My!

One of my favourite places to go in the world is museums and zoo. Now most people view zoo's as a little juvenile but I love the animals in them. I spent the first year in Edmonton working in West Edmonton Mall working near and in the marine life. Even though I wasn't allowed to actually touch and work with the animals because I didn't have the animal science background I found the animals very calming. I was always curious about being a veterinarian but realized that medical school and many years after in school to learn to work with large animals would be very difficult, especially with the science portion, which was not an area I was particularly good with. Note to all those hunky guys out there, if someone wants to get on my good side, taking me to a zoo is ok, but be prepared to spend long hours there and taking lots of pictures. Barb learned this this hard way. We have been talking about going to the Calgary zoo for the last four or five months. We did make an outing to the Edmonton Valley Zoo, which brought me to the brink of anger. I found the conditions so detestable I wanted to rip some body's head off and serve it on a platter. The sea life in that area have no room to swim in let alone move. So when the opportunity to go to the Calgary Zoo came up this weekend I was very excited to go there with Barb.

I found the zoo really fun. There was lots of areas for the animals to move around. the structures of the buildings were unbelievable, especially in the African safari building where it looked like some of the buildings you would normally see in papa new guinea. The manhole covers alone caused me to want to pick them up and take them home. They looked like the wind, something that you would see on an old..... bottom line this is the anthropology side of me coming out. As for the animals, the highlight of the whole trip was when we went around the Siberian Tiger cages. On the side they had the door open with one of the tiger's there that they were playing with. We were allowed to go in and play tug of war with him. It's not very often you get to go in and view a tiger so close, let alone play with one. Besides that, the opportunity to see hippos close up was unbelievable. I had never seen a hippo that close but had heard about it. They are huge and seem quite docile when you see them in their habitat. I made Barb take a billion pictures, some of what she thought were stupid statues. I like them and found they said something about the zoo. I was always saying Yahoo and Barb kept saying, You're weird. We spent from 11:30 to 3:30 in the zoo. We ran around the last bit of the zoo because we were exhausted by the time we got there. The parts we had saved for last were the Canadian/Alberta wildlife areas anyway. It's stuff Barb has grown up seeing her whole life. We looked, we saw, we moved on to the next one. I really enjoyed it. I loved seeing the animals and the structures. I was sad the gorilla's weren't out. I was sad the sting ray area had been closed for construction and the conservatory with all the butterflies was no longer there with a new building under construction. All in all it was a great day and would love to go and do it again. NOTE: Barb doesn't like random dumb, or any facts. So don't comment on facts to her, it drives her batty (and we saw a lot of those). I am totally about the facts and the animals and their habitat and where they come from.

Maybe I should have become a veterinarian LOL!!

P.S. Lucky Min made the car trip with us. What a Lucky Panda!

Do they really think we're that stupid???

Welcome to the silent partner of the sisterhood of the travelling panda. Every once in a while you find on this blog me getting up on a soap box talking about something I find important and/or irritating and tonight is a good example of it. Do guys really thing that we're that stupid. Where do I even begin to start? Well, it began as we sat as panda lovers to a bowl of rice discussing the best way to handle situations that have come into our lives, when one of the sisters showed us a text that just made my blood boil. When you ask a guy to leave you alone and not contact you again and he texts you 3 days later...... and not only does he text you but he's trying to weasel his way back into your life with it. As a group we decide the best thing to do was to text him back and let him know he was exactly how people said he was and yes the friendship was missed. Then he actually responds and not only responds but argues about what people have said about him when the fact that he texted in the first place shows that everyone was right about him. In fact the second text made it sound like it was our sister's misconception and that things didn't work out between them and "it happens". I almost went off the deep end. It made me realize that first of all we had hit a sore spot with this person because he was defensive. Second, he shouldn't treat our sister like that and third why is he contacting her at all other than to be exactly what everyone says he is.

Bottom line, it came down to me being really angry and making the comment about that this year had been the year of two dick and an ass, not really meaning it to come out that way but it is that way with two dicks and an ass. The questions I have for you, do guys really think we're that stupid? Do they think that they can woo a young lady, yet on the other hand have another young lady in there pockets and think it's OK that as long as they don't meet or know about each other that it will be all right? It makes me wonder what is the world coming to that there's so many dicks out there that a girl can't get a break. Obviously "it happens"!! No wonder there's so many single women in the world. My heart goes out to any girl who stuck with a dick like that. This concludes the ass portion of the story.

Now on to Dick, who I'm sure is a lovely man deep down inside somewhere, but I find him offensive, lewd, angry, insulting, demeaning to women. I want to rip his nuts off and stick them up his nostril hairs, and yet we are taught as members of the church to be kind and loving to our enemies, not that I think of him as an enemy but he certainly is a boy toy that none of us want or should have in our life at all. Until this dick gets his life in order and starts treating ladies the way the should be treated, even if they are just friends, he'll die and old shrivelled man alone......it happens. I really don't get guys, do they really think that we don't talk to each other?

Thanks for flying the Silent Panda United Air of disgruntled females. I will be back on my soap box when the next occasion calls for it, which shouldn't be too long with the number of dicks and asses in the world. Until then this is the Silent Panda saying good night.