Dad has Eva, let's go to the Zoo

Ready to Roll

As you know from reading previous posts Dad’s Day with Eva and Baby Sherpa Diaper Backpack, I love going to the Zoo with Eva. Now that she is getting older and starting to take notice of things beyond herself she is enjoying the trips as well. This past Saturday Allison was off at an event and I had Eva for the day. We spent the morning at home and in the late afternoon we went to Big Bully’s BBQ Burgers so I could have lunch and then it was off to the zoo.

Our local zoo, Capron Park, is a small zoo but they have some very interesting animals. The highlight of each trip is the Lion
enclosure which now has a Male White Lion named, Ramses.

Grooming

And by the looks of things he has begun to fit into the family very well. There are hopes that he will breed with the lionesses in the enclosure because they each carry the white lion gene.

On this day we walked around and saw some interesting things, the Lions were waiting for the next Pizza Guy to arrive, the last one was tasty.

Pizza Party

The Ocelots were being fed and Eva was so excited being so close to the ‘kitties’. She get so excited seeing our cats that seeing a large cat like an ocelot so close, it was right at the glass, got her very happy.

Ocelot

We went into the rainforest and shot a bunch of images of the dart frogs but all the other animals were hard to find and not easy to photograph.

Dart Frog

The meerkats were all huddled together at the top of their hill. I wonder if something scared them or they were just being close.

Meerkats

The Serval was active too.

Serval

We had a very nice afternoon. I look forward to our next trip.

UBD – 1 Year Old and Awesome!

It is hard to believe that Unique Blog Designs is merely one year old. This company has made a major impression on the blogging community. I mean they designed the blog theme for Read To Me, Dad. If that doesn’t say awesome I think nothing does. Okay, in all seriousness Unique Blog Designs was behind the Read To Me, Dad blog theme. I won that in a great contest by David Airey. There were five prizes in that contest and three people made good on the prizes, they were David Airey, John Boardley and Unique Blog Designs. I’d sing the praises for those guys for years to come. Two people stiffed me on the prizes and they were Maki of Dosh Dosh and Lorelle VanFossen, no biscuit for you two.

But this post is about Unique Blog Designs. These guys have created the blog designs for John Chow, ShoeMoney and Fat Man Unleashed. They are all pretty awesome.

To celebrate the first birthday Unique Blog Designs is having a contest. Here are the rules.

Official Contest Rules

* The contest runs from 12:00AM PST Friday, August 22nd, 2008 to 11:59PM Sunday, August 31, 2008.
* Winners will be chosen Monday, September 1, 2008 through a random drawing.
* Only one (1) comment entry per person and one (1) blog entry per person. The total number of entries any person can receive is six (6) entries.
* Prizes include (1) grand prize of an Apple iPod Touch 8GB ($299 value) and three (3) copies of our new UBD Citrus WordPress Theme ($99 value) – coming next week.
* Contest is open to everyone world-wide.

Here is how you enter

Entering the UBD 1-Year Anniversary Contest is super simple!

* For one (1) contest entry – just reply to this post with a comment. Only one comment per person will be counted.
* For five (5) contest entries – write a blog post about the UBD 1-Year Anniversary Contest and link back to this post. If your blog post does not appear under the “Pingbacks,” leave a comment with a URL to the post.

And here are the prizes!!!

Grand Prize – Brand New 8GB iPod Touch ($299 value) and One (1) Copy of our New UBD Citrus WordPress Theme (coming next week).

Three (3) runner-up prizes include copies of our new UBD Citrus WordPress Theme.

The winner will be randomly chosen Monday, September 1st, 2008. We will draw the winner via streaming video from the UBD office.