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One thing that I’m not used to is people just being friendly. It’s purely a function of living in a big city (Boston) where people just ignore everyone around them and go about their business. If someone just said “hi” to you randomly on the street, it’d come across as really strange and likely confusing. So when you come to a place where people are overtly friendly, it take a bit of getting used to.

All that said, two times today random people said, “What’s up big guy?” to me. Now, I’m not a big guy. I’m neither fat nor abnormally tall. I probably weigh slightly more than average and am slightly taller than average – but I’m far from “a big guy”. My build doesn’t imply that I could kick anyone’s ass either. I do have a rather “standoff-ish” demeanor when I’m just walking around, which probably has to do with the wrap-around sunglasses and the fact that I just tend to keep a fairly blank look on my face – but it’s still just weird. Corinne noticed it too and joked about it for a while.

Anyway, we went “downtown” today via the bus and went to Ardastra. All-in-all it was a fun time. Not as large as I had hoped and there were more “visual barriers” between you and the animals than I would have liked, but still nice. I still managed to shoot a good 200 photos though. From there we walked downtown and wandered for a while before getting lunch. Afterwards, we wandered back to a bus stop and headed back to the hotel. Corinne’s catching the last of the rays since we depart tomorrow.

No clue what, if anything, will be done tonight. I’m sure during down time (such as now – because I’m not a fan of the beach) I’ll continue to cull images and prepare some to be uploaded by this weekend.

Watch this space.