Saturday, April 30, 2011

St. Louis Zoo

Hi Everybody, 
   I know spring break is over, but I hope you had a good one! :) For my spring break I went to St.Louis, and we decided to check out the zoo while we were there (which I'm glad we did). First off the zoo is Free! The fee is paid for by taxes.
 
   The picture you see above is of the little train in the St.Louis zoo, that takes you around! For the train, you do need to buy tickets, but I would definitely recommend buying them. 1) Because the zoo is really big and it is easier to get around with the train 2) Because it is really fun! The train takes you through tunnels and past water features.  

   The day we went was really great because it was very sunny and all the animals were out! At my hometown zoo you are hard pressed to see the bigger, more exotic animals such as lions and tigers. I only got shots of the male lion, the female was hiding.
Tigers!   
 

After we saw the tigers, we went over to the zebras. The last time I went to the St.Louis Zoo (which was about four years ago) a boy about eight years old climbed into the zebra exhibit. Thankfully his mother got him out before the zebras even noticed him. Anyway, I have a nice picture of a zebra butt for you. 
 

Next we saw the leopards. There was a baby and a Mama, so cute! 
 We walked away from the exhibit for awhile and I look back and the baby was nursing! I tried to get a video of it, but they were already done. But the video is still cute! Here it is:  

Next we saw a snow leopard on it's back:  
 
  
Here is a camel, I think there really cool. I'm mean what are those humps for? And where did they get them? Hang on a sec. I'm going to go look it up....Okay, I'm back. Looks like the camels humps are to store fat. And they get energy from it when there is not enough food or water around. If you want to know more check out this website, that is where I got my info. http://www.worldstory.net/en/camel.html 
 
While we were at the camel exhibit we heard some kid making the weirdest noises. When we looked around we saw it was a donkey!

  

After that we saw a giraffe nursing. Did you know giraffe's have purple tongues?  

When we went into the bird exhibit i saw one of the prettiest birds I have ever seen. A Golden Pheasant! 

Do you see the green and orange tiger stripes on it? So cool! 

Then we saw Wattled Cranes, I was really excited because Sukyong, Mia, and I had been making origami cranes (expect a post on that coming up!)
  
 

  

Chimpanzees! They look so wise! And resemble humans so much, especially with how they act and their facial expressions! 

So that's it because the zoo was starting to close. But we had so much fun! For more information on the St.Louis Zoo check out their website: http://www.stlzoo.org/ 
  
Thanks for checking out our blog! Blogging has been so much fun for Sukyong and I! 
<3 Meera










  

  

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Mia's Drawing!

 
Hey Everyone, Meera here! 
  My friend Mia is staying at our house, and while she was putting off her homework she made us this picture! I love it so much!!! The 'me' side of the picture has my favorite colors! They are the same colors as my room! Wow, I used a lot of exclamation points! Any way thanks Mia! 
Bye Guys, 
     Meera 
P.S. I love posting! Between Su and I we have posted three posts today! And she plans to post more!

Su's Second Cake- a New York Cheese Cake

 New York Cheese Cake


Hello, I come back with a New York cheese cake!
I had to bake two cakes in a week. Isn't it so cool? 
(Actually I have to bake tomorow April 10th, 2011 for Gennevi's birthday too!)

I used this recipe for baking the cheese cake

By mistake I put the cake in the refrigerator after taking it out of the oven
so....... The cake became really thin :)



BUT!  This cake was really good with 'Mom's homemade raspberry jam'. (Raspberries picked by Meera!)

We ate this with Dad's work friends.
We had a really good time:) April 8th, 2011

 xoxo luv Su

Su's First Cake- a Panda

Panda Cake



Hey guys, Su here!
Su made the first cake in her life for her friend Angie.
It took me 4 hours to make it. 
So I couldn't study Japanese test and skipped the tennis practice.
It was really cool!!!!!!!!!
I used 'Best Supreme cake mix's Devil flavor' for baking cake and put icing on the top.
To make black color icing Meera added food coloring, Cocoa powder and vanila.
For white color icing Mom mixed butter, powder sugar and whipping cream
April 6th, 2011 , Happy Birthday Angie!
This video helped me a lot:)
xoxo Su

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Sume Artwork


Hello everyone,  
   You may not know this, but there are two of us behind Sume Blog. Su and Meera. The person writing right now is Me(Meera)! But the Beautiful artwork you see above was done by Su! We have a post coming up about a Panda Cake, so check back soon.  
         Thanks! 
  Meera (but Su sends her wishes too! :)