Rec contr' Amor non es guirens lai on sos poclers, s'autra.

I'm alive and soon to make my way back to Ottawa.

My trip has been great - it started off with the usual scenarios - lots of buying of wool, drinking of beer, wandering of streets - but yesterday was utterly fantastic and totally made the trip.

quotation and I headed to his cottage, which is up near Cambridge. It is, in fact, just down the road for the African Lion Safari. We really headed down there to go soaring - I was really excited (if someone apprehensive) of going up in a sail-plane (not glider! sail-plane.) Seeing as I'm both claustrophobic, and scared of heights, I wasn't too sure how well it would go, but it was great! We went up in a Blahnik first, did a quick tour and landed about 21 minutes after being towed up.

We then headed over to the African Lion Safari because every time I come down to TO, I go to the zoo, but that wasn't happening this year. We did the "safari" part - where the car got licked by a ungulaet, pecked by an ostrich, and attacked by baboons. The baboons, in face, were riding the cars. Just jumping up and riding around the hoods. One little baboon jumped up and sat on the mirror on my side of the car, and flashed me his penis. Just sat there, dangling away, eating a branch....

After the safari part, we wandered around the grounds, and I got to ride on an elephant! A real life elephant! So now I've ridden on a horse, a camel, and an elephant. I'm running out of large quadrupeds to sit on safely....

After that excited (oh, and beig attacked by goats that desperately wanted to knock me over), we headed back to the gliding club for another trip up. This time we were in the Puchhez - which is newer and has better visibility (if you ask me, but I don't know much about these things.) We were up for about the same length of time - not a lot of thermals - but there were more adventurous maneuvers, now that quotation knew that I wasn't going to freak out.

After landing, we stuck around for a beer, chatted with the other pilots, then headed back to TO to meet up with a friend of mine.

So great day - soaring and elephants! Bet you didn't think they were related at all.

A.