SIO AH!!!!
Last friday a bunch of us went down to Forest Park, which is well, a forest in a park, to watch the annual hot air ballon race.
First, Forest Park is a lovely little (although that is a misnomer because it is anything but) piece of greenery in the middle of St Louis and 1 block from Wash U. It has roiling hills and verdant slopes (in summer at least) meandering brooks and bubbling springs, chirpy squirrels and BIG ASS HUGE MONSTER DOGS WHO VIEW EVERY 2 LEGGED VAGUELY HUMANOID FIGURE AS FOOD, gorgeous oaks (I almost typed acorn trees) and fields of sunflowers.
Second, the annual hot air balloon race, more than its name suggests, is also a stroke of marketing genius. The concept is simple enough - organise a novel competition involving many large, vaguely spherical airborne objects and get companies such as Alpro dogfood, Energizer, Nippon Paint, Lays and Fritos to donate helluva lot of money in return for one of their very own and watch the crowds (and dough) roll in. It's gorgeous really, the evening before the race, the public is invited to view the Balloon Glow where all the balloons are filled whilst in a large field. Because the balloons are filled with hot air created by a huge flame, all the balloons light up the night sky. Very very pretty. More than the balloons though, I really loved the friendly atmosphere that the whole parade exuded with families and kids in tow set up camp on the field and offered us exotic looking far easterners their local delicacies of frito fries and quesadillas. I love how the weather here is so conducive for on the spur of the moment picnics and other such outdoorsy family bonding activities that one simply doesn't find in Singapore either because we love our material comforts too much or because the weather's just too damn humid to do anything that doesn't involve air conditioning. Ok. Enough talk.
Said bubbling brook and sparkling spring and (1 giant pink bunny)
Said roiling hills. (I was walking and trying to avoid said BIG ASS HUGE DOG hence the bad photography) Ok, this picture does not do the park justice at all but I was late and FINE, I"M A BAD PHOTOGRAPHER OK?????
Puuurrrrtttyyyyy baaalllooonnnsss
Aforementioned pink bunny's ass on fire.
Realising, to our horror, we were standing too close to a balloon.
And that is all!
First, Forest Park is a lovely little (although that is a misnomer because it is anything but) piece of greenery in the middle of St Louis and 1 block from Wash U. It has roiling hills and verdant slopes (in summer at least) meandering brooks and bubbling springs, chirpy squirrels and BIG ASS HUGE MONSTER DOGS WHO VIEW EVERY 2 LEGGED VAGUELY HUMANOID FIGURE AS FOOD, gorgeous oaks (I almost typed acorn trees) and fields of sunflowers.
Second, the annual hot air balloon race, more than its name suggests, is also a stroke of marketing genius. The concept is simple enough - organise a novel competition involving many large, vaguely spherical airborne objects and get companies such as Alpro dogfood, Energizer, Nippon Paint, Lays and Fritos to donate helluva lot of money in return for one of their very own and watch the crowds (and dough) roll in. It's gorgeous really, the evening before the race, the public is invited to view the Balloon Glow where all the balloons are filled whilst in a large field. Because the balloons are filled with hot air created by a huge flame, all the balloons light up the night sky. Very very pretty. More than the balloons though, I really loved the friendly atmosphere that the whole parade exuded with families and kids in tow set up camp on the field and offered us exotic looking far easterners their local delicacies of frito fries and quesadillas. I love how the weather here is so conducive for on the spur of the moment picnics and other such outdoorsy family bonding activities that one simply doesn't find in Singapore either because we love our material comforts too much or because the weather's just too damn humid to do anything that doesn't involve air conditioning. Ok. Enough talk.
Said bubbling brook and sparkling spring and (1 giant pink bunny)
Said roiling hills. (I was walking and trying to avoid said BIG ASS HUGE DOG hence the bad photography) Ok, this picture does not do the park justice at all but I was late and FINE, I"M A BAD PHOTOGRAPHER OK?????
Puuurrrrtttyyyyy baaalllooonnnsss
Aforementioned pink bunny's ass on fire.
Realising, to our horror, we were standing too close to a balloon.
And that is all!
posted by dundundugi at 7:52 PM
5 Comments:
wah who are the hot chicks in the 4th photo from the top? and you say you haven't gotten laid yet? huh huh huh?
ghetto kangkang kilan.
ok this has got to be the worst comment i can EVER leave... but the pink bunny looks... like something right out of a XXX shop!
Zhu: WHAT KIND OF FREAKKKYYYYYYYYY XXX SHOP YOU BEEN GOING TO GIRL?
Ying: In forest park, by the creek, there's this HUGE field of what appears to my untrained eye to be lots of smallish sunflowers? They have grown to about my shoulder height. And it's getting cold already, it was 14 degrees today. AND I STILL HAVEN'T GOTTEN WARM CLOTHES YET!!!
hello. ur comment thing is very inconvenient. can u put a tag board !! thanks !! and btw dont spend too much. i need some $$ too. =) and so does pei and hui and bei. =)
zhu>> seriously, u were asking for it with that bunny comment. hahaha...
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