The greatest bliss.

... My everything for such a music box !

...and then the music box, for my Everything...my Papagena.

Welcome to the National Zoo

It was a late December sunny Friday morning when we decided to go to the Zoo. I wanted to see some pandas and giraffes and CsLaKoNaS wanted to see some lions and tigers... We were wandering in the zoo for half an hour but there were no animals, no employees, nothing! Eh, what's going on over here? Where was everybody?

Okay, we got it! Although it was sunny, it was also December thus really really cold. The animals were inside...at their winter shelters. So, we started visiting the shelters. The first one was the one with the pandas (by the way it is also the D.C. metro's official mascot).

When we entered the shelter, we saw Mrs Panda having launch...

She is a real lady, she chops her meal and eats small morsels. On the contrary, Mr Panda tries to eat the whole branch at once!

Unfortunately, the little Panda was not at home at that moment (kids.....), so we didn't manage to take a picture of it.

We let the Panda's family have their meal and went to visit the other mammals.

On the way to the next shelter we met this guy

No, he is not CsLaKoNaS!!!!! It's just a pony.

Here we are.... Lets see the small mammals.

The first to see was this simian, but I can't remember its race :(

You can see the male climbing on the branches and his wife sitting over their bed (woman stays home, while her husband tries to find some extra food).

The next animals are also simians.
Geoffroy's Marmoset:

Golden Lion Tamarin:
Red Ruffed Lemur:
Pale-headed Saki (eating a corn):
Now, we present you the rodents.... They are cute!
Prevost's Squirrel:
Rock Cavy:
Black-tailed Prairie Dog:
Chinchilla (a sleeping couple):
Rock Hyrax:
Small Madagascar Tenrec:

Slender-tailed Meerkat (this was CsLaKoNaS' favorite, he took more than twenty photos of it. Well, on his defense it was really funny. We stood there for like half an hour and while one could see the rest of the Meerkats running around; this one was standing still the way you see it. All the time. It was monitoring the rest Meerkats, like a Life-Guard or something.) :

Banded Mongoose:

That's enough for my post. The next post will have more pictures from the zoo. I'll just give you a taste of the next post that CsLaKoNaS is going to upload:

Have a nice week and take care! Bye!!!

A walk around the Greenbelt lake

In days like this, staying at home is almost a sin.....Let's get out for a walk shall we ?
Allow me to introduce you Greenbelt lake !!!

If it wasn't for the trees I would be able to see it from my balcony. Now we only have to walk a few yards to it....I tell you, it really does worth it!

We are approaching the lake. This is the path that connects our block with the lake:


This is the first picture of the lake (when fairy first saw this, she thought that it is made for the priest to stand there on the Theofaneia Day !!!).


This is CsLaKoNaS' and fairy's shadows wandering around the lake, taking photos and kissing each other (the shadows, not us; we have manners!!).




The mascot of every decent lake is of course it's ducks. And we have so very many. The usually come along in the morning and wake everybody up! Are they hungry, or something ?






More ducks... They are usually afraid of people. You have to be careful if you want to feed them. They don't eat anything you throw at them...It must be delicatessen !
here colors
and ducks


and colors
and ducks (the picture arrangement is made by fairy - no comments please!)
Now it's time for the young couple to depart

and follow the same path to get back home....

Be well my friends...

Honey, I'm home!

Here we are in OUR home, our small apartment in that huge block near the Greenbelt lake. This is our home! It is the only block of apartments in the area. It is next to the Greenbelt Lake! We will talk about it some time in the future.

Hmmm... I don't like this photo, it's too dark! Let's go closer and see some colors.

Too much green? Oh, don't worry, we have many other colors too ;) Spring time in Maryland is just amazing!


Let's get indoors now! Ladies first...

That's a really glamorous entrance, isn't it?
On the other hand, our apartment's door is so .....While entering, you can see our new purchases: the SAMSUNG TV and the PANASONIC phone. :D . Powered by Comcast ! This is how it usually looks like, i.e. turned off. We only use it to watch Southpark, Family Guy and Spongebob Squarepants ! (This means that we have already watched Friends and The Simpsons !!)

Fairy is the only one that gets in the kitchen to cook and whatever else, but this is CsLaKoNaS' corner in there.

Now, we introduce you our pets:

This is Maestro Mouse, we adopted him from the Kennedy Center almost a month ago.

This is our little pig...
We can say that it is our creature as we invented the logo on its side
Tough times call for tough measures! We save 1 coin dollar for every good sex we have. We are really proud of our credit score!

These turtles use to add salt and paper in our life
That's enough! Don't disturb them any more, they try too hard to have a baby...

And our last presented pet, the little Panda... He sleeps on fairy's side every night and never snores.
( On the contrary, CsLaKoNaS just cannot help himself on this !!)

Let's turn to CsLaKoNaS' games ! This is his robot
and this is the old witch...original games from Prague for my big boy !

Well that's all for the moment. Hope you enjoyed our home. If not that's ok ! We are about to move to Nation's Capital soon.

Be well !!