Tuesday, October 28, 2008

far out!

haha... the most random thing ever happened to me today. let me just tell you a little background information first...
so when we went to featherdale (the wildlife park where i pet kangaroos and koalas), they had this contest going on where you could name a baby koala. you were supposed to give a donation so you could get an entry form, but the kid just gave me one even though i didn't pay. you had to put all your information, including your age and where you were from, plus a girl name and a boy name. naturally, for the girl's name i put kailey (i think it's a good name for a koala! kailey koala... sounds good, hey?) but then i had to come up with a boy name, and nothing was coming to me. well, elle and i have this thing (i'm not really sure how it started... it was pretty much from the beginning though...) she calls me little jelly bean and i call her little peanut, so i told her that i would name a boy koala after her. this was all completely as a joke... i really just wanted them to have a koala named kailey.
so today i get home and kieran says "there's a letter for you" and it's this huge envelope from featherdale! by this time i had forgotten about the contest, so i was seriously confused. but, as you have probably already guessed... i won! haha... so now there's a little boy koala there named peanut (they took off the "little" so it would still work when he's older). i got a certificate of sponsorship and a koala fact sheet and a family pass to featherdale too! it's for 2 adults and 4 kids... so really it's only good for 2 people because i dont' have any children under the age of 15 (unless braedon wants to go...).
i was dying laughing. i can only imagine what they probably thought when they saw some 20-year-old american had put in a dumb name like "little peanut." but... sucks to be them! haha.

4 comments:

maren said...

so freakin' awesome. i can't stop laughing....!

mom said...

so give the lifetime pass to michelle--someday she will have grandchildren--and when we visit, maybe she we let us borrow it so I can go visit little peanut! You won something YEaaaaaaaa!!!!
love ya, mom

Unknown said...

they were probably thinking...lets give it to this american girl so she will never use her pass and we can waste it. that is really funny. congratulations...i guess

Dana Marie said...

HAHA - that's great! you know, Andrea still doesn't have a name for Baby Santos, you should lend her some of your sweet baby naming skills...