Now, the time for "firsts"!

Hooray!  I managed to get myself internet at home, so now I can post about some of my doings here in Kyiv!  To be fair, it only took 3 days to get internet once I figured out how to do that (it required help!).  So I have a lot of "firsts" to report:  my first Kyiv walkabout, my first trip to the "Spoosk", my first ride on the funicular...  But first, I have one last "last" to write about it.  

I did not know at the time I left, but I think that I have seen my cute little bunnies for the last time.  :(  Due to various complications with international pet export / import rules, the airline computer system didn't understand that rabbits don't need rabies shots.  And sadly although people at work helped me look, I can only find immigration laws for rabbits that do not treat them as pets.  They did confirm that rabies vaccines are not required for rabbits, but I just didn't think I could get the airline to change their mind.  And I don't want them imported under the rules for rabbits for fur!

It took a little while, but the House Rabbit Society was able to find them a fosterer who is able to give poor Kevin his medicines.

So here are a few last picture of my cuties.  Then we can start with new firsts.

Kevin and Mikey's adoption photos

Good Bunny News!

The vet thinks that Kevin is mainly better and should not have a problem going to the Ukraine!   Hooray!  Now everyone at my new work will get to meet my silly rabbits.  Of course, now I have to figure out the 15 details associated with getting them on the plane... And first I'm going to call and double check that they absolutely HAVE to travel as "checked baggage".  It just seems wrong.  The bunnies coming out of that conveyor belt thing...  (They won't really!).  So in the mean time, I have them confined right next to each other as the first stage of "re-bonding".  They don't seem to mind.  Although I think they are exhausted from all of the commotion that's been going on around here.  So I thought I would try to video tape what they do at night!  Turns out, pretty much the same things they do during the day.  Enjoy, the "Night of the Bunnies"!  (Don't worry it's less than 2 minutes long).

~L

Bunny Zen

I'm still not sure about little Kevin, and if he is going to feel up to a long journey to the Ukraine.  And then, if Mikey would want to come alone.  :(  I have asked for advice from the bunny lady experts, so we'll see what they say.  But in the mean time I thought I would use my cool new going away present from my bro and Traci to try and capture what I love about the buns.  Of course I love petting them and when they jump on my head.  Or rest their bum on my shoulder (like the song).  But what I really love about them is that they're so zen!  They sortof just relax.  But I can stare at them for hours, because they are rarely actually doing nothing.  So, no need for you to watch them for hours, but if you want to watch them for 12 minutes...  It's sort of like meditation.  Happy meditation because they're so cute!  And don't worry, one day my videos will be about Kyiv not the bunnies!  Although we'll have to see if they are about bunnies in Kyiv...

~L

Poor Kevin!

Well, the "big snow" never really came to DC.  We did get a 2 hour delay though.  Now we're on our way to spring time and all of the Cherry Blossoms are coming out!  But poor Kevin is sick and so probably not enjoying the spring time.  Although now he's home from the bunny hospital and at least relaxing a bit.  Still too soon to tell if he'll make a full recovery.  Right now he's munching on lettuce but won't eat his regular food.  So I have to give him medicines and liquid food.  And as much as he hates it, he's adorable when I bundle him up to give him the meds!  So I guess the silver lining is that even in his sickness he's sooooo cute!  Mikey is being nice to him again (he was mean when Kevin first came home) so I'm hoping by tomorrow that he'll be munching on more hay. 

And the oscar goes to...

Well, probably not me, but this is my first directing work!  I made a movie of the buns of course...  But the iMovie program is pretty cool!  enjoy!  I only wish I had gotten this computer sooner because I know my bunnies' godmother would have loved videos of them!  

~L

Ridiculous Bunny Cuteness!

Honestly, sooooo awesome!  Maybe one day I can capture my buns in action (although in their older age they are not quite that frisky anymore).  I'll have to get someone who has a digital camera and a cool mac to make a video for me...

~L

Bunny Buddies on Bunspace

Wow.  Bunspace may just be the silliest but happiest website in the world!  It's like myspace, but for bunnies!  Mikey, Kevin, and even Murphy have their own pages now.  Murphy's profile has a rainbow because in bunny world, all of the little bunnies that have passed away are said to have "gone over the rainbow bridge".  I think it applies to all pets actually.  There's a really nice poem about how they are all up in some sort of pet heaven frolicking about!  But it's a great site to look at pictures of everyone else's bunnies.  And the bunnies also have blogs!  Some of the other bunnies have already sent messages to Mikey and Kevin.  One bunny even sent in a story to Kevin, in response to his attempts to chew on the ottoman, that described an even better idea for furniture destruction!  It's pretty cute.  So check out their profile pages!  And I think that you can give them a carrot.  Although that might only be for members...

~L

This one is for the fans...

So I am ludicrously addicted to "Super Swing Golf" for wii. It's awesome! It's like real golf, except all you have to do is stand there and swing the wii-mote. So, really, as my dad found out, not really much like real golf at all. (But he's just saying that because I beat him!) But it was nice that the other day Kevin wanted to show his support for my fake golf skills and laid down right in front of me and the tv. So he was cheering me on. Or more likely, he had no idea what I was doing and just wanted to lay there despite the fact that I was standing near by swinging the wii-mote. But I like to think that he was just being my number one fan!

I also had the opportunity to teach my dad how to play guitar hero! Despite the fact that he keeps calling it "air guitar", he did ok! Well, after being boo-ed off stage a few times, but we've all been there! It's tough getting started in the music industry! Or in the fake music industry world of fake guitar playing that is guitar hero!
~L