Finals Week

Hey all, starting tomorrow is Finals Week here at DelVal. I have 5 (3 general, 2 major) finals to worry about so it's gonna be a stressful week so yea, you know. Love ya! *muah*

Snowed In, 2006 Winter Semi-Formal

Chris asked me out to the winter semi-formal this year. It was exactly 1 year to the day of our first date (Dec. 2nd). This time last year we were front row at and Iron & Wine / Calexico concert at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia. That was by far one of the best days of my life to date. Oh yea, the dance. Well it was wonderful. My friends found me playing Donkey Kong 3 only an hour before the dance and scolded me for not getting ready. So they drug me back to my room and forced make-up and a hair-do on me, then I changed into my dress and was off for a night of fun in the snow. (there was actually a "snow machine" on the dance floor. It was kool until you breathed in the "snow" which was actually made of some sort of soap. As you can see Chris & I are hams and enjoy having our pictures taken as much as we enjoy taking pictures. Hope ya'll enjoy the pics.

Chemical Restraint @ the Elmwood Park Zoo

So I had my last lab. It was on chemical restraint. It was actually a kinda kool course to take b/c we got to shoot two different types of blow guns and such. Actually it terrified me b/c it brought back memories of my brother & his friend deciding they needed something to hunt with their new blow guns. That something turned out to be me. My mom wouldn't believe me until about my Sr. year of high school that he would do something like that to me when we were young. He was evil!
The lab was actually a lot of fun as I learned about special escape teams in the zoos and the training they go through. Then my classmates and myself got to go up one by one and shoot at our animals, which were a drawing of an animal butt on a cardboard box.
Here are a few pics from the lab. I forget our speaker's name for that lab. He is the currator at the Elmwood Park Zoo tho. And the kid w/ the long hair is my friend & classmate Brian F.

Academy of Natural Sciences - Philadelphia, Pa

For lab today we went to the Academy of Natural Sciences in the great city of Philadelphia. Our lab was on education programs in zoos so we got to go behind the scenes at the academy and hang out w/ the animals. There is a pic of a white-nosed Coatimundi named Jodi, a chinchilla, monitor lizard, owl (don't remember what kind, help me out there dad), and a turtles. *muah*

Happy Thanksgiving

To my friends and family,
So they're not turkeys, but here are some pretty birds to look at. I hope ya'll have safe travels and a very filling Thanksgiving season. Love ya'll!
~Holly Rae

Adventure Aquarium - Camden, NJ

Went with some of the Zoo Science majors today to the Adventure Aquarium in Camden, NJ. We were taken on a behind-the-scenes tour with one of the lead people at the aquarium. We were then let to wander about the place and explore for ourselves. At one point, I had a little helper following me around asking, "Do you want to take a picture of this?" For such a small kid he really knew a lot about the fish I was photographing. He & his dad are picture in the bottom right corner of the diver's tank. Hope you enjoy some of the pics! *muah*

http://www.adventureaquarium.com/

Philadelphia Zoo Vet Center

This is a back post so I won't say much about it but here are some kool pics from my lab one Friday at the Philadelphia Zoo. We got to go behind the scenes and take a tour of the Vet Center there.