.. where Ikea is baking christmas cookies, jei!

Hello there! It's me, Ikea!

now, finally i have made my selection of christmas cookies fotografs! watch out #moose and #giraffes! this is especially for you, but also all my other friends and fans! thank you for reading my blog! although i am such a little giraffe, people all around the world are following this blog. so nice! thanks and merry Christmas!

anyways, i have to tell you, making christmas cookies is sort of addictive. especially eating them. i think these cookies are now my favorite food #2 after acacia leaves. therefore i have made already two large batches of cookies. so here come the fotografs of it.

first of all, i started off with my friends moose:


i must say, cutting and baking is the easy part. but the nice coating - quite hard. especially when you are a giraffe, like me. here's however the first one of many, again, moose:


after many hours, all the moose are ready!! jeii. happy x-mas my moose friends!


ok, now, this is the last fotograf, then i am really going to eat one of these.. really!


with the help of my friends at home, look at this big giraffe that we have made! this is like twice as big as me! i think, this is no doubt my favorite gingerbread of 2009:

so many cookies and only one of me! let me just get this one over here...

ooh, it's yet another giraffe! okou, i gotta love these, don't you?

do, did i already tell you that there were two batches in the making? so, here is - batch #1:

batch #2:

jei. im already graving for one (or two) when writing this. so, merry christmas all and happy christmascookiemaking! c u later!

ooh, and if you want more, take a look at my entries to 1Milliongiraffes!

.. where Ikea is checking out Tallinn Airport

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finally finished with making christmas cookies. have to tell you, this year i have probably made the most christmas cookies of any giraffe in the world, hehe. i hope to post the fotografs very soon! or you can go little sneak-peek over here. but in the meantime, i paid a visit to the new Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport, especially the VIP area. as you may have noticed, giraffes are not your regular passengers, but they need some special treatment, therefore they go through vip area, i think. so, what we have here:


behind me you can see planes. currently i am in this area, which is the furthest away from the main building, so for plane- or giraffe-lovers, this is the place to be. if any giraffe is travelling, you'd be the first one to spot it.


somehow this is also the non-schengen area, so hardly any passengers here. i'm waiting they open up a direct route to madagascar, so i could come and enter/leave this way.


now, this is the special treatment i was talking about :) wohooo!


on this fotograf, we can play "spot the giraffe". i was trying to eat it, but then i realized it's plastic. hmm.


and now, the VIP room. here's where presidents, rockstars and giraffes wait for their planes. pretty cozy, i'd have to say. and here is the guest book too. lots of good wishes and other comments. i added mine as well..


so, that's the new airport in couple of fotos. i saw also some other things, like monstrous luggage sorting machine - it's big like 100 giraffes - but you can't fotograf everything in these places, you know, for security reasons. so, welcome to the airport where i usually start my travels and - in case you will not be here for christmas cookies fotografs in time - merry christmas!

..where Ikea finds out where snow is made

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whew, last week i had lots of fun making christmas cookies and i will post some fotografs as soon as i have them sorted. but you can check one with moose over here.

but yesterday, i had a great adventure! you know, for a lot of giraffes (originally from Africa), it has been a mystery for a while to figure out where does snow come from. so, finally i had a chance to find out and i have to tell you real fast (christmas cookies can wait :)

so, apparently it is quite simple: snow is made with special machines and wind blows it away to many places so everybody can ski. here's pictures of one such place with those machines:

in fact, here you can see there is only one snowmachine right now. but there were some men at work and so they brought another one so i could take a proper fotograf:


:) somehow this snow also makes the sun grow big and then almost like dissappear. in this next fotograf you can guess where the snowmachines are. hint hint: they are not both on one side ;-)


from these pictures you might think they are taken in the middle of the night or something. guess what, they are not (because there is sun outside) :) but on this next one you can see it is actually morning outside:


plus, you can see here how the snow then goes up and wind takes it away to other places too, like Kadriorg for example. want to know where it is? it's not far from me on the bank of Pirita river, see map here.

so, that's it! by the way, did i mention that it was -12*C outside? i have to say, this is pretty cold, my nose was totally frozen after that. i had to make myself some acacia-leaf-tea in fact, so i'm fine now :) next time i will definitely take my friend Angel with me. you know, he's an ice-bear! he should love it!

.. where Ikea is meeting other animals in the Zoo

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Here comes the last set of fotografs that i have from my trip to Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo few weeks ago. apparently, there are many more fun animals to see in the zoo besides my brothers giraffes that i was talking about in the last post. so, first of all, there are, of course, my friends meerkats:


Hello, look here! it's me, Ikea! I think he heard, hehe

Guess what, there is a meerkat on this fotograf! staring right at me. as well as on this next one. these meerkats are not very easily noticed with this background you know :)

so, after a good chat with meerkats, we went for a skyride across the park. i have to say i used the chance to take a few bites from the treetops as well...


but here's a little areal view of the tortoise on blanks of wood. apparently sunbathing :)

onwards, to the big white cats:

so, here i tried to ask them why they look exacly like zebras? but somehow i could not go near enough so they could hear me. anyway, i think the zoo did not have more room for zebras, so they have zebra-colour big white cats instead. (you know, there are zebras also, together with giraffes for example on this fotograf and hippos, but not that many..)
or, maybe the tigers got loose and ate some zebras :( and now because of that they all turn white like that? many questions unanswered..

and here's me with a bunch of alligators. they all slept there like treetrunks and were not much fun at all. so only one fotograf of them:

but here, a question - what kind of animal is on this next fotograf and what is going on?


apparently, there is a shiamang feeding a baby shiamang, as you can see from this next foto where i am trying to make a shimp impression:


Of course, there are many more animals in this zoo, but i didn't fotograf all of them because they were busy making other things. then, many were on a lunchbreak also and some others did not want to be fotografed at all for some reason. but you can go and check them out, like for example my funny friends lemurs :)

and for all meerkat fans, here's a link to a meerkat cam on Cheyenne Mountain Zoo - they are out when there is no snow.

.. where Ikea is meeting real giraffes!!!

Hello there! It's me, Ikea! (updated)

So, like i said, i finally had the chance to meet my brothers!! I have to say, they are in the zoo and not in the wild, but hey - i also flew on the plane! I have to say, i was very exited, so i almost forgot to take fotografs. so you'll see these have been taken by other people. not to mention the fotografs not done by the place where they were given cookies. i will post some video link on that on twitter/facebook later on. so, without much more saying, here come the fotografs:

guess how many giraffes on this out-of-focus fotograf:

Hello there, it's me, Ikea here! This waaay!!

Ok now, what is your name?

(well, it's either Boris, Randall or Billy i think). and the answer for the question asked earlier above is four :) now, let's see if you get how many giraffes you find on these two:

Okou, a little scary this place. right next to actually hippos :)

That's if for now. i have to say we did not know back then that they had three more giraffes behind-the-scenes: Bengwa, Timmy and Tango Tango (Ugandan giraffe). So if you go there, take the safari tour and say hi from me! Here's some more fotografs of me and this skull on facebook too :) But my meetings with other animals at this zoo already in the next post!

..where Ikea is sunbathing in S. Florida

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Now, I have to tell you about my trip to florida when I was vacationing. You may already know that i have this one favorite hobby to sunbathe. In fact, this is one of the favorite hobbies of all giraffes, you know. That's why we have these big brown spots - from sunbathing a lot!

So, when I was in florida, i had to go and try out these beaches. and then i made some fotografs. Here are some of them taken in Melbourne beach area. First, i discover this small hole:

.. then, luckily i also find this cool orange spade for digging:

.. and voilà, here comes a big hole!

here, it's me talking to my shade. as you know, i like shades a lot too!

.. and now, some sea as well. i think it is not obvious, but there are thousands of fish on this fotograf. unfortunately, they are very small, even tiny ones right in the middle of these waves!

i had to take out my slippers because of this hot-hot sand. It was definitely the hottest sand since mexico, hehe :)


So secondly, I also checked out the beach in Key West. Not so many waves there, i'm afraid, even less small fish. So not too many fotografs this time. But at least a few proper fotografs of me sunbathing :)



So that's it for this time. I still have a few fotografs of me in the Tampa Zoo, so i hope to get those posted quite soon as well! CU later!

hmm, what's this doing here ...?