Into The Jungle… I mean, ‘Bush’

10/08/21

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After Oma took Lake for a morning bike ride, and then brought him home for a nap, Opa was on listening for Lake duty and Inge, Mike and I went for a walk.

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It was an extremely fog filled morning, making it impossible to see much beyond what was right in front of us.
Inge said she likes the feeling of being surrounded by it, where as Mike and I said it gave more of an entrapped feeling 🙈 

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I had to photograph one of the disgusting ‘naked slugs’ they have 🙈
Making for interesting little obstacles to avoid stepping on, along the way 🤪
We dropped by a dairy farm where you can buy fresh milk from a little tap in a shop.

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I’m not a milk drinker, so I for sure didn’t appreciate the unrefined flavours 🙈

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Mike and Inge liked it though… I just liked the other yard occupants 🤪

As we entered some tree covered areas, it seemed as though it was lightly raining, but that’s how thick the fog/mist was.

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Creating enough moisture on the leaves, to drip down on us.

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In the end we did a 6.85 km loop and our worked up hunger was filled with kibbeling 🤤

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Crispy, salty, fried bits of fish with tartar sauce 👌🏻
Once lunch was eaten, we  were off to visit the zoo! 😁

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The fog had lifted and the sun came out, making it a lovely day to be wandering around, exploring and viewing the animals ☺️🌤🐅🦍🐠

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We all enjoyed ourselves, Lake being possibly more distracted by other attending children, than the actual animals at times, but he was happy, so we were happy 😋

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We paused our animal viewing for a hot chocolate, caramel macchiato, cappuccino and poppy seed muffin ☺️

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All of which were tasty and enjoyed 👌🏻☕️

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After being thoroughly entertained by the gorillas…

It was then time to go into ‘the bush’ part of the zoo.

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‘The bush’ referring to what we would call ‘the jungle’ back home.

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The thickly humid air hit us like a wall, and our light jackets and sweaters were quickly removed, as we searched for any tropical bird sightings.

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From the bush, came the ocean, and we wandered into a slowly darkening world of the underwater 🐠🦀🐙🐡

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As I carried Lake through the dark tunnels separating the illuminated tanks, he nervously picked at my fingers with his own, being uncertain of this new surrounding.

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The vibrant colors and unique shapes of the animals we so rarely see, meant that we took our time.

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Sharing in the childlike wonder, at the creations before us.

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One place that the wonder left and the feeling of unease came, was when we turned the corner, and were in front of a floor to ceiling tank, in a darkened, cave like room.
The dark, thick, inky blue, hiding murky shapes of some very large things just beyond our field of vision.
Until they swam up to the glass, and we were greeted with the relaxed, underwater sort of saunter, of sharks 🦈

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I hate them. Mike wasn’t overly comfortable either. We went. We saw. We felt gross. We quickly left 🥴😂🙈
You can safely say we are not the couple that will ever want to go snorkelling and or cage diving 🤪 


Finally, we wandered out of the ocean and through the desert, before making our way to the zoo gift shop.

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Where Lake got a cute little stuffed sting ray from his Oma, and then we headed to the entrance to take a couple of photos with the animal statues.

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19,000 steps later, we drove home, happy that we’d been able to take the time to go and experience it together ☺️

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Sadly it was the last time for wearing of this particular shirt for Lake, as his belly hung out more than it stayed covered, but I’m glad it had its last finale  there 😉

A special delivery arrived at the house that evening. It turned out to be a box of entirely pistachio flavoured macarons from Tout, for me, from Mike, for our next day’s wedding anniversary 💗 

(What’s so sad, is that come the day we departed, we both thought to ourselves to eat the remaining macarons, and then we both forgot 😭)

Meandering Our Way Through Manitoba

 

Friday, Jan. 12th

(Winnipeg day #3 recap)

My breakfast? A birthday cake flavoured macaroon of course 💁🏻‍♀️💕🎂

 

We’d left our place and drove towards Steinbach for a few, further out stops on the ‘to do’ lists of my one aunt.
We had four days and five people’s wishes to fit in, so we tried our best to accommodate 😜😬

Firstly we stopped at Bothwell Cheese to see what sorts of delicious cow by products they’d churned up.
I got a peach flavoured sparkling water (a non cow product, obviously) for the road and a chilli pepper cheese for at home 🙂

Prairie Pickers Cafe was next on the map and we enjoyed looking around at the assortment of antique and second hand trinkets and goodies ☺️ Continue reading “Meandering Our Way Through Manitoba”

We Came, We Saw, We Left Frozen

Thursday Jan 11th

(Winnipeg trip day #2 recap)

 

Ikea.

The place that overwhelms and gives a person far too many ideas to process at one time 😉

That was our main stop of the day, knowing all would take a while to get through the oversized store of mainly undersized home pieces;)

We lunched there too and I couldn’t have been happier with my meatballs, veggies and gravy for FOUR DOLLARS 😳 😆👌🏻

 

 

I loved this idea of adding some simple details that majorly class up the look of a white wall. Continue reading “We Came, We Saw, We Left Frozen”

Welcome To Winnipeg

Wednesday Jan 10th

After a late night of packing and cleaning the house (because that’s what you do before traveling) I awoke at 5:30 am and we left for the airport.

Mom and I took the 1.5 hour flight to Winnipeg in order to meet up with her sisters for a girls trip ☺️

Our first stop was one I’d been dreaming of… going to Jenna Rae Cakes.
I’d been following them on Instagram for a couple of years, drooling over the pictures and awaiting the day I’d be able to test the sweet treats and hoping beyond, that they’d be as good as I’d made them up to be in my head 😉

Jenna Rae Cakes
Continue reading “Welcome To Winnipeg”

Mountain Drives And Italian Vibes

Thursday Sept 9th –

 

The business man left for customer meetings and the wife living leisurely lay in bed a few hours more 😋

Then made use of the desk with a view💻

Continue reading “Mountain Drives And Italian Vibes”

Saturdays Are For Souvenirs

Saturday Sept 10th –

 

 

We didn’t set an alarm for Saturday and just let the sun coming from the balcony window wake us.

Mike went down and brought back some breakfast for us and then we packed up and headed out. Continue reading “Saturdays Are For Souvenirs”

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