Home, Helsinki, Finland - 16th June 2009
By: Marsu
I'm now at home waiting a host. Please sent a message to my mom, if you like to take me whereever you are
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Posted Jun 16, 2009, 4:45 pm
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Home, Helsinki - 21st June 2009
By: Marsu
Here I am playing my favourite game, Sims 2.
But that is not the main news.
Big news is that Sara Ringham from Australia wants me there!
Hurray!
I'm leaving on Monday afternoon.
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Posted Jun 21, 2009, 9:41 pm
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Orange, NSW, Australia - 29th June 2009
By: sararingham
Hi mom! I finally arrived in Australia! I arrived with Charlis in tow... thankfully he arrived, I think he's been travelling since early May to get here! Crazy! Glad it didn't take me that long to get here!
Well, not much going on so far but I'm going to rest for a bit, were waiting on one more toyvoyager to get here and when we do we'll do a lot more sight seeing around Orange and surrounding areas! Write again soon mom! Miss you!
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Posted Jun 29, 2009, 7:10 am
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Orange, NSW, Australia - 29th June 2009
By: sararingham
When I arrived I got to meet up with three other, much larger, ugly dolls! See me?
I decided then to hide from my little friends so they couldn't find me...
...and then I came out so we could all have a group photo together!
Sara decided since she has been lazy to show you her pets. I know of them know, crazy animals! But you don't so... here's a photo of Sara's beagle Anni. She's insane. To say the least... as you can tell that's her front "lawn" which more looks like a dirt pile because of the dog... fun! Anni has been quite a handful and very hard for Daniel and Sara to take care of when they have Sara's son Andrew, who is disabled... so I'm sure you can imagine... hah!
Next is Sara's birds... she's got an aviary in her kitchen... quite a funny place but it's the best place for the light. Here I am in front of the birds... there are nine Star finches both the red and yellow faced, four Gouldian finches, Zebra finches, two Spice finches, two Society finches, that look more like this, and two Diamond doves. She also has two bottom dwelling birds, two Button Quail, which also look more like this for the male, and without the "bib" for the female. Can you see all the different birds?
Sara decided this time to take a small video so you had some ideas of the sounds they make, since for such small birds they're very vocal... VERY vocal... hah! Here's a short video if you want to see it right here. It's not easy to tell, but the zebras are making most of the noise, where as the few chirps here and there are the society finches, the peeps at the end are the star finches. One of the male Gouldians kind of... dive bombed the star finches on the platform at the end of the video - whoops! The spice finches only make noise during the morning mainly... quite noisy birds in the morning haha! Ah well, it's always fun to watch them... they're all Australian birds except for the society finch, which isn't native to anywhere... it's a captive bred bird for mixed aviaries. :-)
Anyways, moving on... Sara's also got some mice... 3 domestic mice, and 3 wild mice (the smaller cages below since they're so small)... there's a Fawn coloured one (kind of tan/orange coloured) called Fluff, a little brown one called Bongo, that Sara believes was a domestic mouse and a wild mouse must have bred and was taken to the pet store... she's also got a long haired black mouse called Shadow... they sleep in a hamburger! How crazy is that! hehe... you can't see it though because it's in the paper at the bottom... :-)
Sara's also got some fish... don't mind the 'Sara' on the side of the tank... that was all thanks to Sara's husband Daniel. They're mostly platies, but a few Chinese barb fish that have been around since 2005 when Sara moved down! There's also a bristlenose catfish, also known as a sucker fish that are common in pet stores in the US. There's also some kuhli loaches but you'd never know.. they hide so well!
Sara's also got some... well, I wouldn't call them pets by any stretch of the mind... but Sara's getting her bathroom re modelled in a few days since it's old and well... falling apart. It's very common here for bugs to get into the houses, this includes slugs, snails, spiders... all those weird things... well, Sara had a few slugs and a snail in the back of her house so she "rescued" them so they weren't killed and is releasing them outside... here we are with the few slugs in the container... yucky slimy things eh?
Well, that was all of Sara's pets.. quite a story with all of them isn't there! haha! She's quite the animal lover, and her animals love her back! She even had a partial tame Gouldian finch baby! Well, I'll end this with a photo of me looking outside... been quite dark and dreary outside lately! Oh well, it's Winter time I suppose!
Write again soon!
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Posted Jun 29, 2009, 8:52 am
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Orange, NSW, Australia - 1st July 2009
By: sararingham
Well, this was day 1 of 10... we surely didn't get up early but we tried to sleep in but the loud BANG BANG BANG! Really woke us up! What was that? Well, it was a contractor in Sara's shower area tearing everything apart... ugh! She says they really needed it since when the shower was built it was not built right and tiles were falling off... so they tore all that off and jack hammered the floor... see this is all the stuff they took off the bathroom? Can you imagine? Geez that's a lot of stuff there!...
...when the contractor was done for the day we had a bit of a look back there... it's amazing, the difference even from yesterday. The right corner of the photo was where the shower is (you can see the piping a leading to the shower head). The window, on the left side was a sink... and in front of all this... was a really big wall. He tore down the wall though, pretty quickly mind you!... it's all a big surprise even to Sara and Daniel - they're not sure what it's going to look like in the end... but I'm sure it'll be nice... interesting to watch it step by step though! Here I am in front of the now torn apart shower area...
Write again soon!
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Posted Jul 1, 2009, 7:40 am
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Blayney Wind Farm/Carcoar Dam, NSW, Australia - 23rd July 2009
By: sararingham
Next stop was just outside of Blayney, near a smaller town called Carcoar, population just over 200. We got to visit the Blayney wind farm and Carcoar dam...
Here I am in front of the wind farm... unfortunately you can't see it that well with the rain and fog... this is what it looks like normally...
...and here I am in front of what is left of the Carcoar dam...
This used to be a huge "hot" spot in the Summer time... people would take their kids, but unfortunately the drought has taken a toll on the area, including the dam. This photo will give you an indication of where the water level used to be...
See the big line underneath the tree? That used to be the water level... amazing how much the drought has taken from this area...
Write again soon!
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Posted Jul 28, 2009, 12:51 pm
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Cowra, NSW, Australia - 23rd July 2009
By: sararingham
Next and last stop was Cowra a much larger town at around 14,000 people... so there was quite a few more signs of life than there were in the past few towns we've been through... crazy huh? Lot different than where I'm from... with all the farms, and tiny towns...
Unfortunately we didn't get to see much but when Sara was ready to leave Cowra she took us to a nice scenic part of Cowra... the Lachlan river this river is pretty massive and goes all the way to the Victoria border just after it meets up with the Murrumbidgee river. That's a mouth full isn't it? haha!
Here I am in front of the river... isn't it pretty now that it's cleared up a bit?
Sara says the last time she visited here it was a lot higher and that was back in March... weird since they've gotten quite a bit of rain since then.. but there are a lot more 'islands' than there were last time... here I am facing the opposite direction... that little white (or not so little it was pretty big) duck was making quite a bit of noise...
...and walking back towards the car we got to see the pillars under the highway - they're real outdoor aboriginal paintings... this is the best shot we got of them... cool huh?
Well... back to Orange... it's been a long day!
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Posted Jul 28, 2009, 1:01 pm
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