Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Waterblogged

Couldn't resist, Matt. You rock at post titles!

So, water. Cool, pure, lovely (that's for Kelli) water. I love it. It's always been my drink of choice - well, except for coffee - even as a kid. (Yes, I drank coffee as a kid. I started drinking it regularly when I was twelve, but that's another whole story.) I've never really been one for flavored waters, especially those that are carbonated. Yeah, I can drink them, and I would prefer to drink that over soda, but give me a plain old glass of spring water any day.

But I generally like to try new things, and I particularly like to peruse the shelves of "Nature's Marketplace" at Wegmans. Recently in my perusals I discovered an herbal water called "Ayala's Herbal Water." Feeling adventurous, I purchased a few bottles (of different flavors) and much to my surprise, I REALLY liked them!

Now, the folks at work find these highly amusing for some reason. However, you lunch table people need to know that there ARE others who like them as well. And I'll also have you know that the woman who developed them is a pediatrician.

So there.

In panda news, they're still watching Mei Xiang (that's her at right) at the National Zoo and hoping that she'll deliver a cub. Ditto Lun Lun at Zoo Atlanta. Ultrasounds on pandas are generally inconclusive, and they experience pseudopregnancies, so until either their urine analyses show that hormone levels have returned to normal or they deliver a cub, we're all in the dark!

Here's a great YouTube video on the birthday celebrations of 3-year-old Su Lin and her 1-year-old sister Zhen Zhen at the San Diego Zoo! There's something highly amusing about a panda cub climbing all over (and falling off of) a cake made of ice, bamboo, and other frozen treats!

2 comments:

MMiddlebrook said...

Woo hoo--now that's what I call a sense of enTITLEment!!

Sue said...

Indeed. And you deserve all the credit.

Did you say you'd do a month's worth of titles for a wizard's hat and cape?