White lions, scorpions and festivity!

First of all, and the earliest thing i will mention is the new boarders at bahrs scrub. two days ago carl came home with two scorpions in a container i had already specifically made for them, with a dividing compartment thingy, the correct substrate etc. what we ended up with were two small scorpions, Liocheles waigiensis to be specific. one is a very bloated looking one, which is very aggressive, and a smaller one which hides a lot lol.






secondly, theres turts hatchday! as you probably know, turt hatched on teh 2nd of january, 2006, so today, the 3rd of january 2007 she is a year and a day old!!



thirdly, i won the best competition i possibly could. a while ago mum saw a competition on the tv about some white lion cubs, and peugeot. i went to the website, and the competition was to name the two new born lion cubs at Mogo Zoo, near Sydney. I entered tonnes of names, and it appears as though it was worthwhile. The owners of the zoo chose two of the names i entered, and i won the competition. the awesome prize is the honour of naming the white lion cubs, peugeot pays for the airfares for mum, dad, carl and i (or, technically anyone i wanted to take) to sydney, we get to use a brand new peugeot 407 while we're in sydney for the two days, entry into the zoo, a private tour of the zoo with its owners, and two of us get to go in and actually PLAY with the white lion cubs! what more could you ask for?! i cant wait, and i still cant believe i won!

i still feel like im in a dream, that its not real, that im hallucinating. I got an email at 10am saying id won. all i did was read the first line, read 'winner' and 'peugeot' and ran to get mum to see if it was real. i was so hyped up when i was trying to explain to mum what i wanted her to check, it took me at least 4 times for her to understand what i was going on about. she came, checked it, and it was real. then i rang the number the email said to, talked to the guy, then he sent me another email. at the moment theyre sorting out flights and accomodation for us. it feels.. unreal. i get the once in a lifetime, super rare opportunity to cuddle and play with the 2month old white lion cubs. also the zoo has snow leopards, jaguars, meerkats, and a stack of other animals ive always wanted to see, and theyre rare pride of white lions is now up to 7. 1 adult male, 2 adult females, 2 5mnth old cubs and the two 2mnth old cubs which i just named! the names the zoo owners chose were "Tamu" for the male cub, and tamu means "sweet one" and "gentle". the female cub is now named "kito" which means "precious" and "rare jewel". I still cant believe it. i really cant. its made my day

heres the link to the peugeot site if you dont believe me!









to make my day even better after teh white lion cub competition, in the afternoon mum called me outside and said the wedgetail eagles were back. i waited, and we heard them call out, and then saw them; three magnificent wedgetailed eagles soaring just over the tops of the gum tree's across the road, and soared right over our heads. its really funny because as soon as i saw them, i grabbed misty, cause i knew they were hunting. usually there is only two wedgetails, but the third was obviously a juvenile. it kept calling out, and it looked as though it was its first flight. the birds were awesome.




last but not least, i hope you all had a great christmas, and that youll also have a fantastic year, which im sure you will!!!!