Seriously who in the right frame of mind would go to a zoo, located in the artic, during WINTER time. Frankly speaking, we went there for the sole purpose of seeing polar bears. Even though the singapore zoo has polar bearsssssss....i dont know if they still do, they once had Inuka and it was such a lovely polar bear!! AHHHHH xD by far, the most. agonising. zoo. trip. ever.

You see, we spent quite a lot of daytime  travelling from Levi to Rovaniemi how to read that word, is exactly how you pronounce it when you read it as though its english! I'm just making a wild guess that whatever works for sweden works for finland too kay :) i'm listening to the news, playing facebook games, and reading up more on my psp game xD HAHAHA so..... if my blog post doesnt come out coherent in any way...hehe sorry in advance!!

okay okay how long was that bus ride....5hours was it? or something along those lines...well at the 3km+ point, we had a supermarket to drop by! they always have this thing whereby they split the shop space into one side being the supermart, the other side being a cafe!

  As usual, i went on my chocolate shopping spree! but its kinda not counted since i didnt buy any chocolates i think... instead, i bought reindeer meat!! xD i was extremely afraid that later on, when we go to Rovaniemi, there would be any reindeer meat xD wow #mingyanglogic
It is also at rovaniemi where we really got to experience a "white christmas" xD because everything there is just white white! this photo was taken at the cafe area side, its amazing how much area they actually allocate for the cafe area, and its so nice and scenic! in SG, when you look out (that is provided you can) you see road, and buildings. Here, you can really see what it means as a white christmas! everything, is, white. :)
After some travelling, we finally managed to see some buildings! the buildings here are pretty scattered, in the sense whereby you have a cluster of buildings together, then some random ones along the road here and there, before meeting another cluster. Also, those isolated ones are more of farmhouses.

I remember i've ever came across the style of clustering of such settlements around... sheeesh i dont take bio so nope i dont know!! i remember there's something nucleus something or something...ahhhhhhh whatever. MOOOVING ON~








This place is also where we first saw the sun!! xD like wowowow everytime in SG we always complain about not being able to see the sun, and here, you can see the bridge getting a big foggy! haha and all those green trees you see, are fig trees if i'm not wrong! (hope i'm not wrong)







Soon, we reached the zoo!! actually not so soon. but hey! look at that! doesnt the zoo look really beautiful?? :D :D like HELLOO Singapore's zoo (i should seriously stop comparing) looks so noobish as compared to this!!

 Hmmm the inside looks so white! kinda reminds me of IKEA, though nope the stuff here doesnt smell like IKEA. oops forgot, this is the dining area! its buffet style? but for a big group, buffet style in such a way.... hmmm.... really not like the buffet we had at the ski resort xD
 I was already beginning to feel sad because of the moment of everyone leaving us as they all head back to Singapore on the following day while we, my family, would continue and crossover into Sweden! The land of meatballs. though i dont recall seeing so many. meatballssssss~ anyway, here's some food! which of course didnt really make me feel any less sad..

The weather was VERY COLDDD. still below 30 degrees celcius.
THIS, I REMEMBER. because its the coldest zoo trip i've ever had.

Food anyone? other than the rice and curry chicken, i have no idea what i am eating. oh and that drink? its not root bear, instead, its their home made beer! i think.... actually i ant remember what they called it but oh whatever. it tastes nothing like the usual beer i drink xD its non alcoholic so yeap children can have a taste! though seriously i still dont understand how people can like beer. it's so rough! might as well drink i dont know root beer with peas?? i dont know.

 AHA! that's reindeer stew! they really have everything reindeer lah. it tastes really good!! hmmm though frankly speaking all the meat soups to me tastes kinda same. :P but its nice and becomes especially good on a cold winter like this!

OKAY so...we're supposed to see polar bears in this zoo. Seriously every other animal was either hibernating or just missing.
AHAHAHA HAVEN"T EVEN ENTERED THE ZOO AND I FOUND IT~! TRALALA~
I would like to thank my parents and my brother for their unwavering support these past years, as well as my friends for always believing in me! thank you thank you! *grabs panda-spotted award*

 The pandas are very far into the zoo... its really all the way at the end! which er.... no choice la huh? just walk. The route can get pretty slippery at times because there isnt much snow covering the ice underneath!

 Obviously the one with the safety beep isnt one of us.





Blue=me, beige=bro.
There's really a lot of walking to do alright!! it was like never ending! at some point in time, i was really wondering, are we there yet, are we there yet.... and it was really cold here! seriously my legs were freezing. I soon began calculating on the distance we would require to get back to the reception area, and how long it would take us. Seriously treated the mini map they gave us like it was a topographic map -.- #scoutsmode






but hey! we soon managed to see the polar bears!! and a not-so-many lot of animals~! im kinda more mesmerized by the scenery instead of the animals seriously. I dont know but it feels like the zoo was one of the "buffer" activities that we had? you know, like some activities are fun, like snowmobile and all, but some are just walking around, like this. eh but seriously in a zoo under such conditions?! OH PLEASE. what an experience!

 Tadaaaa p-a-n-d-a. eh what...polar bear!! wow am i even paying attention to what i'm typing.... i got distracted with dad commenting on me blogging (which is deeply annoying)
but hey! guess what, all thanks to my camera zoom, i managed to get some close up shots of the polar bears!! muahahahah without having to bring those bulky lens. beat that! >:)



Woot i thought it was my mum standing there for an instance, but that's a real life size comparison of the polar bear! its really huge actually! :D all i can think of is.... SO FLUFFAYYYYY sorry guys.


Cant see one of my eye as usual, cant  see one of my bro's eye too! #retardedbrothers

TOLD YA. the scenery looks really really good right?!?!?!




Try and photograph one of these things running, whilst on zoom. absolutely hard okayyyyy -_-"'





HEHEHE the wonders of yet again, having amazing zoom HAHAHAHA. look at the difference!! xD xD dont ask me what animal this is~ though its eyes seriously look scarily too big.

surprisingly... we got to have a taste of what's it like in ice hotel!! hehe with this igloo here xD its quite a cute igloo, though i have no idea why the zoo would so something like this! can you imagine, when spring comes, all of these would be gone???


 Ahhhh no more animals to show you guys! its seriously nothing much, other than seeing reindeers and oxen and foxes? yep yep. Pretty normal stuff you would see in a zoo eh!! so nah, nothing much great to comment on~


here, you can see all the work that is being done outside! Also, dont you think the sculptures look really really beautiful?? :D AHHHH its like can you imagine having them at home?!?!?! wohoo! SO PRETTYYYYY even if you keep it in the fridge too!! but nope not gonna happen. *sigh*



 There ya go! some shots!! before we headed back to the reception area! well from here on, i actually went ahead of my mum! because she was taking so longgggggg. well i explored the zoo together with bro and sarah! so we walked and walked and trie dto navigate before finally reaching warm grounds!! ^^

After that i did something lame. :3 hehe lets see how many people get it!!

Is the hotel room nice? hmm.... not really.... well i didnt really take much photographs because i was pretty tired out! well even though we went back to the hotel when the sky was dark, it wasn't because it was late, but due to the little daylight that we have over there :)
HEHE retarded shot as usual~ ah but oh well!! its time for me to rush to book in!! NUUUUUU T^T seriously maybe i should consider blogging in camp hehe. but i cant have any photos with me so its kinda troublesome to edit blog posts....

by the time we got back to our hotel, it was around -20 degrees celcius :) hehe the last night was fun though! because we got to play card games!! i was honestly very tired, so i really didnt want to go out. so instead, we slacked in the hotel room! bro was busy fiddling with the massively heavy lappy he brought, while i was busy cuddling myself under the bedsheet to stay warm! for once, bro's fats come in useful okay... i was walking around the hotel barefooted and in my heattech clothes.

random shots~