Thursday, September 16, 2010
Anchors Away!
One of the cities we explored on the northern vacation was FishTown. Being a penguin, the name of this town obviously appealed to me. I pictured fish--glorious fish--everywhere; a buffet of all kinds of delectable fish for me to eat to my heart’s content. For me, we couldn’t get there fast enough; on the ride over I kept urging the driver and navigator to go faster. I couldn’t help it, I was hungry.
I soon discovered, however, that FishTown is just a town and, instead of fish everywhere, it was full of shops and art galleries. Initially, I was a bit disappointed, but the town is so charming I quickly got over any feeling of being mislead.
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We checked out a few of the art galleries. My favorite one had metal animal sculptures placed around the yard.
There were giraffes…
…an ostrich…
…a toad…
…a cougar…
…and a fericious looking creature called a tyrannosaurs rex. This last guy really scared me--he didn’t look very nice at all. *shiver*
Another thing FishTown has an abundance of is boats. Mr. Penguin has never been on a boat before and is anxious to try out his sea legs. We saw lots of fishing charter services but, much to my disappointment, we did not have time to go out on a boating excursion. I guess that will have to be an adventure for another (hopefully soon) day.
The buildings and general area around the water was so picturesque, I found lots of photo ops, as you can see:
Just look at the fun pirate flag...
I also really liked this cool weather vane...
We came across a big fish during our exploring of the town. My creative consultant suggested we get a picture of me kissing a fish. I was hesitant, but I closed my eyes and puckered up. Have you ever kissed a fish before? Yuck, I don’t recommend it unless you like wet, rubbery lips (which I now know I do not like).
While walking around we saw a gigantic tree. We puzzled over it, trying to determine what kind of tree it was. We decided on a cottonwood. I wonder if we were right.
We also found a serene park with a tree at the center.
The base of the tree was surrounded by hand-painted tiles of various animals. I looked and looked but, unfortunately, I found no penguin tiles.
By this point, posing for and taking pictures had left me pretty tired. Thank goodness there was a peaceful looking bench nearby where I could sit down and take a rest.
The man was pretty jealous of all the pictures I posed for during the day, so he insisted the woman take a photo of him. She obliged his request.
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See those flowers? The man was severely allergic to them. Almost instantly his eyes became red and watery, closely followed by the sneezes. He needed to get out of the park so there went the end of my restful break. I guess it didn't matter much; since we were all ready for lunch by this time, we decided to head back to the house.
I really enjoyed our little jaunt to FishTown and I'm glad I got to share it with all my friends.
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