Saturday, September 29, 2007

Weekend Trips – Safari and NHL

This weekend we rented a car (Toyota by the way) and travelled to the African Lion Safari Park. There we went on a Safari, meaning that we could see all the animals in wildlife from our car. We always opened the window to take pictures, but a friendly park ranger told us to close it. After several times (we never listened to her) she started to shout at us, “Close your window!” But during the safari, we heard this sentence quite a lot and every time it was determined for us. There were lots of animal to observe, but what I liked most were the monkeys. They were so cute, especially the little ones. They also jumped on the car and took a short ride, knowing exactly when to get off again.


In the afternoon we travelled on to Buffalo, to watch an ice hockey game of the Buffalo Sabres. By the way, that’s the NHL team where the Austrian Thomas Vanek plays. We thought that we would need maximum 3 hours, including crossing the border and searching for a parking lot. But everything was different from what we expected. When we crossed the border there were not a lot of cars, so we thought that we are lucky. But then they took all our passports, because our friends didn’t have a visa. We went into the office together, there were several people waiting. After talking to them we started to say good-bye to the hockey game- most of them were already waiting for 3 hours! In fact, we had to wait so long that the game had already started and so we missed the initial 30 minutes. However, the game was really amazing and we are now dedicated Sabres fans - Andi bought a t-shirt and I am the proud owner of a Sabres finger/hand. As always, please visit the photo album.

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