A Day At The Zoo

No, I don't mean a visit to family either. The San Diego Zoo actually. About 3 weeks ago, the husband and I took a road trip to San Diego as we needed a little break. The San Francisco Giants were playing baseball down that way so we figured, what the heck it's only about a 5 hour drive. Since both baseball games were at night we thought it would be fun to go to either the zoo or SeaWorld. Well, have you seen how much it costs to get into SeaWorld??? Even the zoo was expensive but I did manage to find a site that it ended up being $5 less than if we had bought the tickets on the zoo's site. Now I do have to admit that I'm not for zoo's but I'm also not entirely against them either. We have been to a few that are amazing such as Sydney's Taronga Zoo which I believe is hands down THE best zoo in the world but we also went to one that almost left me in tears at the state of the animals (Bangkok's zoo). All in all it was a fun day and I managed to get some decent shots.


Amazing colors on both the tiger and the reptiles, which are my favorites next to dogs (no dogs in the zoo though).


Some more cool colors on the snake.


Don't you just love when a peacock has it's feathers all spread out and open like this?!


Last but not least, a baby meerkat. He was so far away and my camera isn't real good at zooming in so it's not the best shot. Poor thing got stuck and was trying his best to get around then his mother came over and was feeding/sheltering him from the viewing public. Just adorable though.


The Giants managed to lose the game on the Monday night, which we stayed and watched till the bitter end. Tuesday nights game we had to leave about 9pm-ish in order to drive back to Vegas and not arrive TOO late and wouldn't you know it, they managed to win that one as we listened on the radio along the 15 back home. Story of our lives!

Favorites For Friday

I was at a loss of what to have as a theme for this weeks favorites then I thought I'd do a search on Etsy under the Art category and used the keyword "travel". The husband and I don't get to do as much as we like to now but traveling has always been a big part of our lives. Guess I'm just getting itchy feet.

Leathermap's Shop

Intrinsic Value's Shop


Anne Smith Studio

LoWorks

Dana Hunting Photography


Enjoy and have a great weekend!

Something New!

Lately I haven't really been in the mood to make much but I did manage to whip up these earrings a week or so ago. The only problem is that I didn't notice until after I'd made them that some of the anodized aluminum rings have white spots on them. This sometimes happens when you get a bad batch. Shame since you really can't see them that much but if I were to sell them then I'd have to mention it and then probably would only sell them for like $1 or something. I love this style since it's very simple but looks good no matter what type of jump rings you use. I have a pair I made when I first started weaving chainmaille that are Argentium silver and I added a Swarovski drop on the bottom.



This photo has nothing to do with anything other than I thought I'd just add it for fun. That is the husband and I at the Coliseum in Rome when we went there in January of 2006. As you can tell it was a bit chilly but the flights were dirt cheap from England and we were living there at the time. EasyJet is similar to Southwest here in the States...cheap and no frills. If I remember right, the flight was like 1GBP and you just pay the taxes which are usually about 15GBP. Even by today's exchange rate that is only about $25 for a return flight. Needless to say, we thoroughly enjoyed it.