Friday, September 11, 2009, 02:58 PM CST
[General]
I had the silly idea that there would only be a few of us at the Grand OPening of the Nordstrom Rack. Boy, was I wrong! The line to get in stretched around the building!! I figured everyone would be in school or at work. (I guess I would have come down with a fake flu if I had to in order to get there.) Silly me.
They moved things along pretty quickly though so that was nice. When we were coming in the employees were applauding us. I applauded back! YAY ME! YAY SHOPPING!
While everyone else lingered at the front of the store, I made a beeline for the shoes in the back!
30 seconds after I took this picture, these racks were packed with crazy shoe lunatics. Believe it or not, I didn't find anything this time.
I went in just to get a couple of new bras....but I ended up with a pair of jeans, a motorcycle jacket, and this purple dress. I did get the bras too...but no photos of me modeling those!
THIS terrifying lioness went from raging beast to loving mother in a split second after a frightened baby made her heart melt.
The moving scene shows the huge predator succumbing to her natural mothering instincts after coming face-to-face with the scared tot.
The huge beast had bared her teeth fiercely before spotting the placid baby staring innocently back at her from the other side of a thick sheet of glass.
The lioness then closed her gaping jaw and offered up her large paw to the girl, gently patting the glass apologetically.
The unknown youngster, who was being held up by her mum, smiled back at the lioness, which lingered by the window for ten minutes.
Touching
The breathtaking moment happened at Whipsnade Zoo, near Dunstable, Beds, and was captured by visitor Emma Davies, who was with her one-year-old daughter Paige.
Emma, 30, from Aylesbury, Bucks, said: "I was visiting the zoo with my daughter - she absolutely loves the lions and was sitting in her pushchair giggling at them.
"We were all watching the lions lazing around when one of them caught sight of this baby girl being held up by her mother, and started padding towards us.
"She got right up close to the glass, almost nose to nose with the little girl and suddenly she let out this huge roar.
"She opened up her huge mouth and bared all these sharp pointy teeth at the baby.
"Everyone else around jumped back in fear, but the baby didn't cry or anything - not even a whimper.
"She looked a little bit shocked though, and she stared back at the lioness with these big wide eyes.
"When the lioness saw her face, she stopped growling and looked curiously back at the baby.
"The very next second she was gazing at her with these adoring eyes and patting the glass gently.
"It was very sweet to see, almost a maternal gesture."
