Hi,
Over the weekend, I visited Forestidia. We have a relationship; some forumers have already guessed that.
Flopsy and Lucia, his girlfriend, spent a week in Berlin for vacation. We decided to meet them!
At their hotel, Forestidia showed the Prince of Persia 1 and Commander Keen 6 speedruns. I gave the couch commentary. Afterwards, we went into town for lunch and smalltalk.
Here is a picture of Flopsy (left) and Simon (me, right).
This picture is confusing in light of the topic title "Double Date"; Flopsy and I are not in a relationship with each other. But the girls preferred not to have their pictures posted on Lemmings Forums.
Forestidia and I went to Tierpark, a large zoo in Berlin.
The Tierpark has porcupines -- both new-world porcupines (these sit in North American trees) and old-world porcupines. The particular old-world porcupine species in Tierpark is the Indian Crested Porcupine, a relative of the African Crested Porcupine that you see in my avatar.
Here's a happy Simon next to 3 porcupines cuddling in the corner. Those 3 porcupines are lying next to each other, touching. The middle porcupine faces leftwards, the othes face rightwards. Such social animals, they don't sting each other with their quills.
Here's a close-up. This porcupine sleeps in the shade, avoiding the afternoon sun. The hair fits along the body, the quills are down in peace. Who wouldn't want to cuddle?
I'm sure Flopsy remembers how much I raved about seeing these porcupines.
-- Simon
