Yeah, we’ve been to this zoo before, and will very likely go there hereafter. We’ve got a year-pass
I’m considering it to be the nicest zoo in The Netherlands, closely followed by Burger’s Zoo. Blijdorp however rocks my boat.

End of long post.
And today, I went again!

We did a road tour to a few Zoo’s: the first is Noorder Dierenpark in Emmen.
Lovely park, however strangely divided into two parts.

They feature a great set of animals, all held in pretty enclosures. Their speciality are the vast amount of baboons, elephants and Humboldt’s penguins. We’ve had a blast cruising the zoo, yet found it to be about a 5 hour trip all around it. Too bad that’s about the time it took us to get there in the first place.

Remember me buying my new flashy hardware?
Well, I still like it a lot.

I also made a whole lot of pics with it attached to my camera, and as I promised: here’s an very small excerpt of those.

We had to wash our rabbits with special shampoo to cure a skin condition, which was troubling them and making one in particular very grumpy. Here’s them both undergoing ‘treatment’. I can safely assure you: bunnies don’t take lightly to water!

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to make comparison-pictures to show the difference my external flash makes. You’ll have to do with the above, and trust me on the previous point.

Car abuse taken to the maximum: I drove around 42K in just under a year.

Coming from doing a mere 8000 kilometres per year, I’m now driving almost 4 times as much to and from my project location.

Nevertheless: it’s a funny sight, and here’s the proof.

Monday morning, 7:45 AM.
You step into your office to find nothing but a mere dysfunctional coffee-machine, a few co-workers and your empty desk.

Monday morning, 9:30 AM.
You step into the room next-door to do some chit-chatting with a colleague, and you find this:

Presents from Dell!
Yes, that’s 30 2208wfp’s.
I mean, 30 screens extra. Which crisis are we now part of?

BTW: we do need them. All 30. And they’re probably not even enough for the upcoming month.
But they do make for a nice view though.