scyscraper!

ok, so this building project is really starting to get moving... this is a construction project at the end of the galleria mall near southdale shopping center down on the barnes and noble side.

about a month ago is when construction started and i thought they were just building a parking ramp because all over the fence it says "please excuse us while we better our parking" or something like that, and the main base structure they are working on right now looks VERY similar to a parking ramp.


however, if you look at the sign posted by the front enterance to the site itself, you find out that there is a really tall building going in here! (which i really dont get... the gallerias parking already sucks big time!!!!!)

I did a little research today and found out that this is a westin hotel on the bottom floors which are going in right now and the top 11 stories are going to be 82 units for luxury living which include just about every damn ammenity you could ever want... 24/7 room service, pool and spa, on-site signature restaraunt, house sitting, plant watering, dog walking, linen and towel service, valet parking etc....ill be posting more pics of the building progress as it gets bigger!

R.I.P MEERKATS!

ok so i held off posting the meerkat pictures because they deserve their own section... why you ask? because they no longer exist as of the beginning of this week. some little girl was looking at them and decided they looked cute enough to try to touch so the dumb bitch stuck her hand over the top of the glass and into the cage, resulting in a meerkat biting the crap out of her.now her stupid parents (who should have been watching their kid) decided that they dont want to put their daughter through all the processes it takes to test for rabies so they decided to have the zoo kill all 5 meerkats and test for rabies by cutting the brains out even when they pretty much know that the animals came to the zoo free of any disease. how fun.these were easily one of my top three favorite animals at the zoo... :(

mn zoo!!!

these pics are from a couple weeks ago on wednesday july 26th... me and my gf went to the minnesota zoo to look at the animals and so i could get a chance to try more settings on my new camera. A lot of the animals werent even out and about because the weather was so hot and humid, so im afraid that a lot of the pictures might not be too interesting with sleeping and lazy animals. Also, this zoo is really hard to get good photographs through glass so please excuse the noise dots that might appear in some of the pictures of the animals that are behind glass.... p.s. i would have posted these a lot sooner if i didnt have to individually re-size and upload every last one of them!!!
caribou:

moose:

timber wolf:

camels and wild horses:

ostrich:

zebras:

giraffe:

giraffe eating:

giraffe eating again:

prairie dog:

prairie dog trying to get out:

american bison:

takin:

shark:

dolphin:

monkies (with baby):

ring tailed lemur:

? lemur:

no idea:

tree squirrel:

sun bear:

komodo dragon:

orangutangs?:

otter yelling at me:

otters:

flamingo:

tree kangaroo:

tapirs:

shark:

another shark:

red panda:

anaconda:

green tree python:

slow loris:

giant rat:

? bird:

? bird #2:

?:

golden tamarin:

armadillo:

? monkies:

flying squirrel:

timber rattlesnake:

beaver:

beaver swimming:

river otter:

purcupine:

fisher:

bald eagle:

sleeping wolverine:

mountain lion:

mountain lion #2:

mountain lion roaring:

bobcat:

snow monkies again:

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