{"id":266,"date":"2010-03-16T10:32:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T08:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/?p=266"},"modified":"2010-03-16T11:53:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T09:53:47","slug":"where-ikea-gets-stuck-on-ice-discovers-an-underwater-giraffe-and-meets-swans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/where-ikea-gets-stuck-on-ice-discovers-an-underwater-giraffe-and-meets-swans\/","title":{"rendered":".. where Ikea gets stuck on ice, discovers an underwater giraffe and meets swans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hello there! It&#8217;s me, Ikea!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">i have to tell you what happened to me last week when i went  a little bit. somehow there is also the sea nearby and because of all this cold weather previously, there is lots of ice. so i went to see, if the ice is strong enough for a giraffe. it was! but then something happened so that there was all this water between me and the land and i got stuck!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0270.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-268 aligncenter\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" title=\"DSC_0270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0270-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0270-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0270-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ndon&#8217;t know if u have seen a giraffe stuck on an ice-bank before (Angel says he&#8217;s been stuck couple of times), but there i was. mostly very lovely ice i should say except this one side which was REALLY scary..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0243.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-267 aligncenter\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" title=\"DSC_0243\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0243-680x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0243-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0243-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">i have to say, being stuck was not so boring at all. first i was doing a little sunbathing, as u might guess. and then, i discovered another giraffe in the water, looking exactly like me!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0282.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-269\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"DSC_0282\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0282-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0282-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0282-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0316.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-270\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"DSC_0316\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0316-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0316-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0316-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nso, i tried to find out where he was from. somehow i could not hear a word what he was saying. it seems to me that it&#8217;s because of all this water u know. because fish, they are same &#8211; you just can&#8217;t hear a thing what they are saying to you..<\/p>\n<p>so even though i could not hear him, he could hear me, so we agree to play this little game called &#8220;mirror&#8221;. that&#8217;s when this other giraffe that u are playing with has to do exactly the same faces like you! hehe, that was very much fun. i almost fell in the water!<\/p>\n<p>so, after that i watched a ship go by &#8211; but not very close. quite far in fact, so no harm for the ice bank that i was sitting on. luckily then i spotted this swan nearby:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0334.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-271\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"DSC_0334\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0334-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0334-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0334-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nhave u read <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Wonderful_Adventures_of_Nils\">Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige<\/a>, a book where Nils Holgersson travels across Sweden with a swan?\u00a0i have,\u00a0it&#8217;s a compulsory book for everyone in sweden &#8211;\u00a0even giraffes, like me. so, me and this swan make a deal where she takes me to the shore.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0369.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-273\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"DSC_0369\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0369-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0369-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0369-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthe swans, they were not from Sweden, but from Germany. but this one swan Marie (on the right, that&#8217;s the one flying on that other fotograf), she knew a few words in English. that other one, that&#8217;s Maximilian. so we talk a little about politics &#8211; no i&#8217;m just joking :) we actually talk a little about snow and ice. because they tell me that they arrived early this year and somehow there&#8217;s not much to do here, because of\u00a0the snow. especially there&#8217;s\u00a0not\u00a0enough of free water, so that they can&#8217;t swim.. anyways, i thank them because they had to go somewhere with the other swans. then i saw there were almost . A LOT, for a giraffe. what about u, have u seen swan&#8217;s lately? what were their names? have fun and c u l8r!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0365_c1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-272\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"DSC_0365_c1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0365_c1-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0365_c1-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/DSC_0365_c1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton266\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ikeathegiraffe.com%2Fblog%2Fwhere-ikea-gets-stuck-on-ice-discovers-an-underwater-giraffe-and-meets-swans%2F&amp;via=ikeathegiraffe&amp;text=..%20where%20Ikea%20gets%20stuck%20on%20ice%2C%20discovers%20an%20underwater%20giraffe%20and%20meets%20swans&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/www.ikeathegiraffe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello there! 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