.. where Ikea is meeting other animals in the Zoo

Hello there! It's me, Ikea!

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

Hello there! It's me, Ikea!

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 ...?

..where Ikea is vacationing in Mexico

Hello there! It's me, Ikea!

I have now finally had time to organize my fotografs from the vacation. so here it's me in Blue Bay Grand Esmeralda Hotel in Quintana Roo near Playa del Carmen, Mexico.

First of all, this is a picture from the hotel where i meet with the locals. They are swans called Blues and Esmeralda. They work as hotel towels in their free time, but normally they just go from room to room to sleep in guest beds when people are out on the beach.


Most of the day i was doing my favorite thing - sunbathe - by the pool. So here it's me sunbathing:


But there were lots of things to do on vacation in Mexico. For example, drink coctails. my favorite coctail is 'blue giraffe' hehe :)


other things to have fun in Mexico:

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..where Ikea goes to Office

now, apparently i went to visit an office, the place for work and fun. usually, i watch tv at this time, or sometimes we play hide-and-seek with Angel. but he is no fun to play with, becoz he always hides in the bamboo-basket. so therefore, instead we chase saab and volvo. so, where was i..


here i first checked out all the plants in the office. none of them taste good, in fact, most of them taste really bad. so instead, i tried to program a tamagotchi out of the egg-timer. well, almost.. as much as giraffs know about programming, hehe!


couple of fotografs here from me doing some research. to be honest, it has taken me all this time to get this research done. thats what i have been doing all this time! -besided watching tv, traveling, eating acacia leaves, playing hide-and-seek and taking fotografs.


because i had so much to do, i had to make copies of me, so i would get all this things done:

where Ikea goes to Helsinki

Hello again, it's me, Ikea.

Looks like no-one has been writing my blog while i have been doing other things, so i have to do it myself. So, let me tell you about my trip in Helsinki, while you are here.


First, as you can see, me here on this big red boat. It is not the first thing for me to be on a boat, you know. Before i moved to Estland, i was born in Sweden. So i know boats quite well and they are fun. Not so much being outside on the boat with this weather. I had to carry a large bag so that the wind wouldn't blow me away.. scary!


After a while, i managed to get to Finland. I'm glad they did not have sniffer dogs at the port. Sniffer dogs are no fun at all. Once my friend Muzzy introduced me to one sniffer dog, it was very scary. Sniffer dogs are only fun from a distance.


So, here's a couple of things we did in Helsinki. First we went to eat at Pizza buffet. It is good to have some nice pizza from time to time you know. I like vegetarian.


Then we went shopping. Actually, here i am trying to do my best Shaun the Sheep impression ;)



And here's find the Ikea after all this shopping hehee. We also went to do some sightseeing in the night, and this is pretty much all, before i had to get back to the red boat. Since it was my favorite day - Friday, we had to wait with all these other people trying to get to Estland. Estland seems to be very popular on Fridays for Finns!


And then we came back and that's it. I had this plan of bringing my friend Angel some tupla from Helsinki, but ooops.. i think i was a bit hungry on the way back..


Anyway, in the meantime, i have also moved, as you can see from my name. so i am not in Kalamaja anymore! I will try to post some fotografs of my new place soon. I wanted already to post today, but Volvo and Saab ate them. Oh, im not sure you know Volvo and Saab! well, i will introduce later!

..where Ikea posts some pics of geocaching

i have to say i am superbusy right now doing my giraffe stuff, so i will just post some fotografs from yesterday when i went sunbathing and geodashing in Raplamaa! c u then!