//Welcoming...Louie. :D/

Holy crap, we got a Quaker Parrot LOL!

When we were getting ready to go out today, I thought it was just going to Camsal Aviaries to get the toys for the cage and stuff...we talked a little about either getting one from a breeder or Camsal Aviaries, though.

We went and got some perches and toys and stuff (and a calcium perch for Rox), and then Mum asked one of the guys at the store if we could see the baby Quakers! Lol. I got to hold one, he was so cute and let me pet him and everything. We ended up getting that one, haha.

The man at the store (lol fail, I don't know his name) told us they're about 9 weeks old, and "look like" they're all male except for one. We'll have to take him to the vet and do a DNA test to be certain, but I don't mind.

He seems to have settled in really well. After an hour after being put in his cage, he was going to sleep, hehe. So adorable.

We ended up naming him Louie. :3

Pics, of course!



Bawhhh.


We need to keep the stuff low for now, since he's only little. Baby Quakers are also pretty clumsy, or so we've been told and read. :P Can you see him on his perch?

Yeeeey.

Roxie says hi! x3 *is sitting on my shoulder*

//Xmas Bloggage!/

Prepare for a photo dump of d00m! *ominous music plays*

Christmas was cool, we had the usual present opening, sending Christmas SMS's, playing with/checking out presents, a massive lunch, chillin' (lol), more playing with/checking out presents, and going back on the laptop, LOL.

And I of course had to take pictures of, like...everything. :P

We got awesome pressies this year (Mum got her books, and Dad got...socks! LOL. Well that's what he wanted!). :3 Our converse shoes, Twilight Movie Companion, makeup, Tomb Raider: Underworld (already finished lolz), toys for Missy, Brandy and Roxie, a really cool pentagram (petancle?) charm on a necklace (ala 'Supernatural'! :D) and some other goodies. n___n;; Soo spoiled, lol.

Sarah popped over for a little bit (hung overrr from her night out clubbing LOL, poor thing) and gave us some choccies. c:

Pic spammage!



Danielle's new jewellery box. c:



Meh shoooessss yay. I put the rainbow laces on! :D But I've changed them back to white now, lol.


Danielle's black onesss.


Pentagram (pentancle?) charm necklace (ala Supernatural!) is awesome.



Cute 'lil charm thingy we spotted.



Mum got me a watch - she got me one last Christmas too lol, but I accidentally broke that one! This watch has changeable wristbands and faces, but they're a bitch to get off. The watch stopped yesterday, too. -___-;;


Woooo. ^___^


:3




Roxie's new toys. The top two are now in her cage, and she's chewed off one of the beads ahah. She doesn't like the bally thingy. :c








Bawh. n___n













Wohoah! Lol. Mum bought us this sparkly eyeshadow-mascara-body glitter stuff, it's pretty coooool.


Roxie roxxx. :3

Phew! Done. xD


My gosh...I think we might be getting a Quaker! .____.;; I didn't expect to get one anytime soon - I never hounded or nagged Mum or Dad, just continued telling them some of the cute things other peoples Quakers have done. x3 We ended up buying a cage at Camsal Aviaries and looked at their young Quakers there, haha! n____n;;

Continuing with our hunt for bird shops, we visited two more stores that Danielle found on a directory - one in Elizabeth North, and another on Main North Road in Pooraka. We also checked out the pet shop at Paddy's Market - Mum loves that place!

The one at Eliz. North was...not very good in my opinion. Waayy to many birds (It is called 'Birds, Birds, birds'!) cramped in cages too small, shoved in every corner, stacked ontop of eachother...*shakes head* I mean, do they need that many?! I saw about six Rainbow Lorikeets, five Green Cheek Conures, two Quakers and Sun Conures...lots of finches, Indian Ringnecks...loads. Tiny Shop. Not good. :/

The Paddy's market one was nice, nice and cool too. There were some young Galah's for sale, we were looking at them when we noticed one lying on the bottom of the cage with it's wings out...I freaked out and was all "OMG, is it dead?! DDD;" but his tail was moving - it looked like he was struggling to get up. Mum got one of gals working there, she picked him up and sat him right in her hand...he was laying there all "O____o". She thinks he might have fallen and stunned himself. Dunno. Poor dude.

The store in Pooraka ('Gem Birds') was cool (...I mean good!), too. We were looking at all the different birds when a man working there asked if we needed any help. Mum told him we were sort of looking for a hand reared Quaker, and he told us "Well, this is the guy you want." and pointed to a little blue Quaker who was in a cage with three other hand reared cockatiels. He was telling us how if they're reared "the right way" they're really friendly and a great companion, etc etc. He got the little guy out of the cage and was cuddling right up to him! He seemed totally fine with him. I got to hold hiiimm. :D He was so adorable! I cuddled him and petted his head, hehe. We didn't buy him, though (...$475), but Mum got his card anywho.

Danielle suggested we might as well pop in to Camsal Aviaries so Mum could see the green ones (Mum said she prefered the green) at the store lol. They're adorable, as was Cheeky! (Pet store owners Quaker who's always there) We looked at the cages and ended up buying one and put it together at home. c: It's in the kitchen where the Christmas tree was. We need to get more toys and perches of course, but it's a really nice cage!




Can you see the toy that Roxie shuuunned? Lol.

Gossshh. Excited. Except now we're fighting over names! xD Danielle and I had agreed on Felix when we were thinking about a name (hypothetically LOL) for our potential Lorikeet. Mum doesn't like it, and Dad keeps saying "Felix, Felix the cat!" -___-;; haha.

Mum wants to call him Minty. o_____o I don't like it loolll. But we've come up with Oscar (Ozzy!), Louie and Buddy (Mum agrees with that *cough Hawthorn footy player cough*) for a male, and Bella (Eh, eehh?), Izzy, Emi, Neela and Jada for a female. :3 I like Louie but Mum doesn't like that eitherrr! ><;; Lol.

//Meeerry Christmas!/

It's nearly Christmas! Less than an hour ago. :3

We did the last of the shopping today (thank *GOD*!) which was just fruit and veg. Other than that, we're all set to go!


(white Chrismas tree, yayuh!)

Some of our Christmas shopping was done in Rundle Mall last week and...eek. Craziness. And it's like everyone forgets their manners. They'll walk into you, cut you off, push you and not say a word. *sigh* But on a high note...Mum got us converse shoes! They're pretty cool. They're our Christmas present (although of course Mum said she didn't want us to only have *one* present lol -___-;;)! Mine are an awesome silver colour, and Danielle's are black. c:

We've also been getting Roxie out a lot lately.


Lol.



Bawh.

Danielle and I have been reading a lot about bird behavior and all the stuff they need, and there's so much to learn! We've also been trying to find a way to stop her from plucking (she's chewed and plucked feathers from her wings and has now moved to her feat and her chest .___.) We haven't really been bathing her, she doesn't seem interested...that's something that can cause plucking, along with a bad diet (we feed her seed pretty much), not enough toys (she has two LOL), lack of sleep (continuous 12 hrs a night...) and some other things.

So she now has three toys for Christmas! Yay.

As I've been hanging outside a lot and taking lots (and *lots!*) of photos of Rainbow Lorikeets, Mum started to talk about getting one as a pet! So we went crazy looking up prices (hypothetically, of course...) and how to take care of them and such. That led us back to this pretty parakeet called the Quaker Parrot, that we were squeeing over a few months ago.

Pics!




Blue mutation on the right. c:


Yayz!

Aren't they cute?!

They're expensive (about $400 for a green at a pet shop - Roxie was about $85) though...but they're really intelligent and just seem so funny and cute! We've visited a lot of bird aviaries lately (and found more online to check out!), one of them just got a bunch of them in - so adorable.

We've been telling Mum about all these cute stories and such, she seems interested in getting one! We'll have to see though...they're really expensive. Although apparently it's cheaper (and better?) to get one from a breeder. We might look around next year. Fingers crossed!

Maybe Roxie could get a frieeennd. Though it might not happen after some things I've been reading about Quakers being jealous birds and such - I don't know.

Back on the subject of Roxie...it seems that she's actually...a *he!* It probably sounds so idiotic when you see photos of her - she's still a girl to me, it's stuck now! Roxie is a pearl white face.

(here's a photo so you can see - click for larger version)



As you can see, Roxie's the mutation that has removed the yellow and orange colour (whiteface), and the pearling, which she had when she was younger. Now, females keep their pearling after their big molt, the males loose them. Roxie doesn't have her pearl feathers anymore. Also, the female whitefaces don't have the whole painted white face. :/ Roxie does speak quite a bit as well (saying "Come on Roxie, come on!" "See ya Roxie" and recently learning "Ready Roxie, ready?" and "Good girl Roxie, good girl!").

I don't care, she's still just Roxie to me. <3 I got some new photos of the Rainbow Lorikeets today! And some Musk Lorikeets a few days ago. :D





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:DDD

Have a great Christmas, everyone!

//Home Sweet Home!/

Yaaay, home! Well I've been home since Tuesday, but I haven't gotten around to posting a blog, lol.

The Melbourne trip was awesome, though! Funny that of the four days that we were gone, two of them were just days of driving. O___o Like, eight hours of driving. It's fun though, it just gets a bit boring when it's just hours and hours of road and nothing else. We did see a lot of kites and hawks and things, though.

Our motel thing was...eh LOL. Guess we get what we paid for. We were right on a busy intersection (second floor of the motel) and the windows were really crappy, so we hear *every* car that drove by, including the damn crosswalk beeper thing! I'd be almost asleep at 12am, and then woken up at 6:30am by Mum LOL. It was alright, though.

Some piccies:


We drove through a rainbow! :D




View from the motel.


My beeed, with Danielle's on the right side of the room (shotgunned the double! xD).


Table lol. Mum's bed on the right.


Our widdle kitchen! (Mum's bed on the left there)


Bathroooom. Our water was erm...tank heated, is it called? So we have to have 5/10 minute showers and then wait half an hour for the water to heat... .___.;;


The Twilight convention was SO! FUN! Holy crap. Awesomeness. It was cool gushing to people (Yes, I spoke to a few (maybe five? LOL) people!) about our excitement and what it was like meeting the actors. :3 One thing sucked. I FORGOT THE CAMERA! Gah. I could have asked Mum to get it and we would've picked it up, but I didn't. Ah well. :/

The audience's screams weren't too bad, they only came in short bursts haha. We made it about 10 minutes before 9am (we got a little late trying to find the right gate to go into and Mum was freaking out about the traffic/roads - it's crazy!) and let in at maybe...9:15am. The only real hiccup I noticed was that started about 45 or more minutes late, so everything was waaay behind. Other than that, it was amazing!

Edi, Taylor and Nikki were so great. Edi is hilaaarious! Taylor was just so cool, and Nikki is so gorgeous! And they're all so down to Earth. Loved all their Q&A's. It makes me even more excited about the SuperOzCon! <3 href="http://twilightorigina.free-forums.org/">Twilight Originals.net.

Photos! Keeping mind that I have no idea how to scan photos, and touch them up, etc. -____-;;


Photo taken with my mobile before anything started - we were in fourth row! A huge relief (a surprise actually) because we got our tickets probably...two weeks after the announcement. I realized I could have taken some photos with my mobile...hmm.


Lol eugh, slouchage. Someone on the Twilight Australia forum was saying that Taylor told them he doesn't do big smiles in all his photos because he gets a sore jaw. :P


:3 I love Nikki's dress! It had pretty frilly green layers at the bottom aswell, so cool.


Lol. Go team! The redheaded girl was the one who recognised me. Red hair = love!


On Monday we went to Melbourne Zoo! That was really great. It's *humongous* and I'd taken so many photos that near the end of our trip, I had to delete some to make room for more! That never happens at Adelaide Zoo...lol.

Favourite part had to be the Gorilla's, Orangutans and Siamangs! Adorable. Among many, many others. We got there about 10:15 am (walked there, it wasn't that far away) and got back around...4-ish? Well we were there a long time. I was still recovering from it three days later, LOL! Oh! And I got a toy Gorilla...heheh. Danielle got an Orangutan!


Lolll.

I uploaded a ton of photos, but there's no use uploading them all here, there's way too many! There all in my Photobucket.