Sorry its been so long

New Addiction WOW. Not gonna post alot about it, I've been playing, and its been fun. Andrew plays also, so we do stuff together in game sometimes too. which is nice.

here's some screen shots though.

Gryphons are used to travel around the world, this is me on a gryphon with the sunset in the background.

Here is me in a shop with a floating thingy from the valentines day. I can't really explain what it is, but if you look behind me there is a floating goblin.

Ok this is jellacle and Tyrrion (it might be one R.). Basically its me and Andrew in game. You should see us dance, its really creepy.
Here is us Lying together.

OK, that's it for now. back to my addiction.

howdy

Sorry this took so long to get to, Monday I had to take my Mom to the hospital for some tests unexpectedly. Nothings wrong, she's doing fine, just the kinda stuff that happens when you have cancer. they just expect you to run around constantly in the frigid cold. And yesterday was my book club.

So anyway, Penguin day. We got to the aquarium a bit early, so we had to wait around for awhile. but finally we got to go out to the penguin house. Andrew and I were in the first group that went inside to learn about how the penguins are cared for and such. a few penguins were inside, and we got to take pictures of them.

The green mat is where they sleep, evidently they are territorial, and if someone gets too close to a penguin's chosen mat, they get bit. LOL which kept happening to the biologist, the one penguin didn't like when she got close to the mat.

These penguins are warm weather penguins, and are from Africa. the black band on their chest is a sign that they are warm weather climate birds.

Also the pink patches of skin are a sign of the Warm weatherness. its how excess heat escapes. We also found out that since they don't like the cold, they leave the door open so they can come inside and get warm.

The stairs are gated off from the rest of the room, so the biologists can do their "care" duties without 20 penguins driving them crazy. Finally at one point the shoooed the penguins outside for the other group to do enrichment activities with, and we went out to sit and pose for pics with a penguin. Theres a really bad video an employee took, thinking they were taking a pic in another post below.

So then we went around front to see the other penguins, and do enrichment activities.

This is a flock of cold penguins, sitting at a door saying, can we go in now?

LOL so after that, andrew and I went in to get warm, and came back out at 11:00ish to watch the penguins be fed.

Thats when we got some nice pics of my penguin Jack. He's #119.

And no, I can't tell by looking which is Jack, only by the band. though Jack was one of the taller ones there.

Then we hung out at the aquarium, which is really nice, and headed home. We didn't get murdered, which is also nice.

Later!

Friday

Ok, So Friday we headed down to Camden for Penguin day. So the drive down wasn't bad, its pretty much a straight shot down the turnpike. It didn't start raining until after we got down there, so the roads weren't bad, and not too much traffic. So when we go there , we checked in and went to the room. We stayed at a Double Tree Suites, which this was very nice, had a sitting room with a door and a bedroom. very comfortable. So we looked through the "what can you do in the area book, and decided to go to a local mall.
Ok, so the mall pretty much sucked, wasn't that big, and was like any other mall, but it was out, and walking. But it did have one thing that was pretty neat. there was a rink, I guess you'd call it, set up so you could, roller blade/ skate board, and bmx bike, with ramps and stuff in the mall. it was pretty cool looking, made me wish I lived in the area. I miss roller blading, but the roads are too rough here for me, it gives me a headache. So that was pretty neat, though they didn't seem to rent skates, so I didn't get to skate in it.

Then we went back to the hotel, to waste some time before dinner. Andrew ended up putting on Law and Order reruns while I was reading. I'm still stunned by what happened. This was the episode with the gay couple that adopted a baby, and the birth father kidnaps the kid and beats one of the parents to death. So they are going for a bias crime. They put the mother of the child on the stand, and ask her, what did the defendant say when you asked him to stop kicking the victim, and she says "______________________" They censored it. Now, this is a show that plays on Network TV. and they censored a line. I couldn't believe it. I mean where was I the bible belt of the state of NJ? LOL. basically, it really surprised me. And upset me. I don't like censorship. Now, I expect that since it is public TV, that if something that was done, lets say for HBO is picked up, there may be some changes made to words that are said. While I may not personally agree with it, its the law, and there are reasons for it (similar as to why chicks dancing naked aren't allowed to on a street corner, but can inside the building on that street corner. its kinda, people choose to have cable, especially premium channels, its more public having NBC. But the idea that TNT - a cable channel would censor something that was aired on a public channel is scary to me.
Ok, so after the shock wore off, andrew and I went to dinner at Chilli's, where I had a gift card. So that was nice. Then we went back to the B.Dalton, to get coffee and Andrew bought a book. then back to the hotel, and not much else happened.
I'll talk about Penguin day in another post!
Later all.

WOW

World of warcraft - For those of you who don't know. BTW I'll post about the penguin thing later. So I've started a trial for WOW. Andrew plays, and has been bugging me to play for awhile so I signed up. Its not bad, but the graphics aren't that great. but so far it isn't bad. haven't really partied (played with other players) or anything, but I'm still new.
I'm a hunter Night Elf (er, I think that's right. LOL. I have pointy ears I know that.) which means I can have pets. Though I don't have one yet. But I did the quest that allows me to have pets, so here are some pics of me and the temporary pets.
:)

Penguin Video

I'll post more later. just trying to get this to work.