Thursday, July 05, 2007
MOoOoOO goes the giraffe!
Quick update before bed:
- Canada Day long weekend was nutty hectic... Saturday LT and I went down to St Lawrence market and made up a picnic lunch for ourselves, then headed over to the Island for an afternoon of sunshine and reading on the beach. I played a squash match with my friend Dave (as always, I lost 3 games to 2, 9-7 in the last game) then went to Asahi for all you can eat sushi, which as always made me fantastically happy.
- Sunday we headed up to Laura's parent's place in Markham and went for a day hike, then did a BBQ for dinner before heading to the local fireworks show, which was moderately good but no match for waterloo.
- Monday was my first visit to the Toronto Zoo in several years. On one hand, it was a beautiful day and lots of fun...they really do have quite an incredible assortment of animals - it's really amazing that they're all able to live (albeit in a very artificial way) in Canada given their diverse originals and natural habitats. That being said, the zoo made me sad more than anything else. It's so frustrating to read about all these species that have been poached/hunted to near extinction or that have simply lost all of their natural habitat to deforestation and urbanization, or to global warming, etc. So that's one side of the equation, like "look at these wild horses...there are only 500 of em left in the world, 400 of which are in zoos"....the other is "jeez, can you imagine how incredibly crappy and boring and UNNATURAL it is for a tiger to walk around in a 200m circle around his little tiny cage, all by himself, all day...every day?" While I'm sure the zoo meets or exceeds whatever internation standards for care in terms of the animals, basically *ALL* of the animals were just kinda lying/sitting there looking bored out of their minds. Woot woot.
Tomorrow we're off to Dave (sara's Dave's) cottage for weekend festivities! And as an added bonus, NEXT weekend I'm off to Brian Orr's cottage (a bud from uni) to hang with all my pals from school / residence.
- Canada Day long weekend was nutty hectic... Saturday LT and I went down to St Lawrence market and made up a picnic lunch for ourselves, then headed over to the Island for an afternoon of sunshine and reading on the beach. I played a squash match with my friend Dave (as always, I lost 3 games to 2, 9-7 in the last game) then went to Asahi for all you can eat sushi, which as always made me fantastically happy.
- Sunday we headed up to Laura's parent's place in Markham and went for a day hike, then did a BBQ for dinner before heading to the local fireworks show, which was moderately good but no match for waterloo.
- Monday was my first visit to the Toronto Zoo in several years. On one hand, it was a beautiful day and lots of fun...they really do have quite an incredible assortment of animals - it's really amazing that they're all able to live (albeit in a very artificial way) in Canada given their diverse originals and natural habitats. That being said, the zoo made me sad more than anything else. It's so frustrating to read about all these species that have been poached/hunted to near extinction or that have simply lost all of their natural habitat to deforestation and urbanization, or to global warming, etc. So that's one side of the equation, like "look at these wild horses...there are only 500 of em left in the world, 400 of which are in zoos"....the other is "jeez, can you imagine how incredibly crappy and boring and UNNATURAL it is for a tiger to walk around in a 200m circle around his little tiny cage, all by himself, all day...every day?" While I'm sure the zoo meets or exceeds whatever internation standards for care in terms of the animals, basically *ALL* of the animals were just kinda lying/sitting there looking bored out of their minds. Woot woot.
Tomorrow we're off to Dave (sara's Dave's) cottage for weekend festivities! And as an added bonus, NEXT weekend I'm off to Brian Orr's cottage (a bud from uni) to hang with all my pals from school / residence.
# posted by Greg @ 8:07 PM 
