Author: Ikea

.. where Ikea finds a dinosaur in Tartu

Hello there! It’s me, Ikea!

guess where I was last weekend!? in Haanja, watching Haanja 100 running event Jala100, which is 100 kilometers of running/walking as fast as u can. this is a lot of kilometers, even in giraffe terms!! unluckily, i could not take any fotografs as the battery went a bit dead. well, nothing serious, just empty, apparently.

so, let me introduce you my new friend – a dinosaur from Tartu:

He is made out of wood, so he does not talk. but you can sit on him, hehe! he’s really nice and his name is Bota. Yes, it is a fotograf from few weeks ago when i met him in his neighborhood. but i can’t tell u exactly where it is. it’s for two reasons: 1. it is a secret! and 2. when too many people come to his area, he may soon be extinct. Extinct means that there will be no dinosaurs. and that would really be a shame!!

so, i gotta go and load the battery now, but here’s a question of the week for u: have u ever run 100km race or seen a dinosaur? let me know! have fun and cu l8r!

.. where Ikea is travelling in Turkey

Hello there! It’s me, Ikea!

like i was saying, it took me a while to sort these fotografs from my trip to Turkey. (apparently, “turkey” is also a bird.. but i did not see any birds in fact. only sun and camels, jei!)
so, here’s my selection (there is a lot more, but some of them are not so gr8. like for example the ones from the waterfall that we went to check out this one time. i have to tell u, we were mostly in the Hotel, just sunbathing and eating acacia leaves. but we also did some other fun things. like for example we went to check out this old town called Side, which is about here.

as u can see, it is really quite nice. on the way there, we also went to check out this one local church:

which they tend to call a mosque instead. they are quite nice because of the thin long minarets (that’s the towers u know) which look quite like giraffe’s necks! very nice! here’s me inside the mosque. check out the fun carpet they have manufactured pretty much for giraffes, like me to sit on:

hehe! among other things we found in Side were many houses that had not been properly repaired for quite some time. for example, take a look at this wall:

it has holes everywhere! in fact, most of the rest of the house is – somewhat missing, im afraid..!

or, take a look at this giant amphitheater here:

it is quite clear why this is not working any longer – it does not have a roof. it is not so easy to go to a theater without a roof. especially movie-theatres!

but here’s to the fun part – riding a camel, jei!! this was all back at the hotel in fact.

and also – the waterpark, hehe! although i can tell u that i (a giraffe) don’t like water sports. so therefore i went to the waterpark when it was a bit closed. so i did not get wet, hehe!

so, this was my little trip to Turkey. i did take more fotografs, but they are mostly from my favorite hobby – sunbathe. so they are not so much fun. instead, let me know if u have been to Turkey and where to? Have fun and cu l8r!

.. where Ikea visits a bakery and eats Pumpkin Cheesecake

Hello there! It’s me, Ikea!

guess what? i was organizing my fotografs from Turkey when i got this tweet from my friend Heidi to come and check out the new Pumpkin Cheesecake. I have to tell u, we, giraffes are not much into pumpkins usually. But since halloween is coming and i have always wanted to check out a bakery AND my friend Sipsik is very much into cakes, so it sounded a like a good plan for Saturday morning.

Apparently, first thing u can do in a bakery is to ring a bell. That looked very similar to the bell we had in the hotel in Turkey in fact. First lesson: bakeries are a lot like hotels.

After introducing myself i could go and check out the bakery itself. First thing that i noticed were eggs, hehe!

as u may know, i like eggs a lot! in fact there were many many eggs pretty much everywhere, not only the fridge. LOTS OF EGGS! Lesson number two: cakes are mostly made out of eggs.

Here’s me and the machines for egg-whipping. Since it was Saturday, all the egg-whipping had already been finished for the week! So i have to come back to see how it is really done with these fun-looking machines.

Here’s a fotograf of me and what they make out of these eggs. (and other things, like chokolate. and berries. and nuts. and rum. and many other things…) Lot’s of stuff actually..

.. and this is what we got – the Pumpkin Cheesecake. quite big, don’t you think?
so i gathered some friends to try this cake at our place, in Kadriorg. Apparently, some friends of my friend Sipsik also somehow heard about this cake and came along as well!! (Lesson three – news about cheesecakes travel fast!) Here’s some of us contemplating our moves:

Finally my friend Lotte proposed an excellent idea of cutting the cake with one flowery thing on each piece. Which we did:

AND i have to tell u, i don’t have too many more fotografs except this last one. You know why? Because this Pumpkin Cheesecake was really really really good in fact. And do you know why? – i have no idea. Well, definitely i have to investigate more into this mystery of cheesecakes.. but it seems to me that cheesecakes (if they are as tasty as this one) can definitely make my top 20 list of best things to eat. It could be because they taste a little bit like ice-cream. In fact i remember now that not long ago i was having this strawberry cheesecake ice-cream from mr. Jerry and mr. Ben and that was also very good indeed.. so here’s lesson number four: Pumpkin Cheesecake tastes as good as strawberry cheesecake ice-cream and it’s not even an ice-cream! That’s gr8 news! (also my friend Sipsik says here she liked the taste which made the cake taste a bit like Christmas cookies. (i have to agree, because, as far as me and Teddies can tell, Christmas cookies are the BEST!))

Also what i found out later, is that they also make cakes out of marzipan. i have never tried marzipan myself, but i hear from my friend @Mooseherd that marzipan is best thing ever (not sure about that, because definitely it can’t beat acacia leaves or even ice-cream..!) So, probably i will go back there and try to see how this marzipan cake tastes like. What’s sounds gr8 about this marzipan is that they can even make little giraffe figures out of it, jei! Take a look at these fotografs, for example! Looks like lots of fun! Maybe i could even make some of my own? Until then, let me know if u have made any marzipan figures? or been to any bakeries or tried any cheesecakes!? Have fun and cu l8r!

ps. i have to put a disclaimer in here somewhere. I’m not sure what a disclaimer is, but my friend Leenu says that u have to put a disclaimer in, if you get something for free. And we got the cake for free, so here it comes. Disclaimer: Got this Pumpkin Cheesecake for free from the bakery.