Scary Canaries and Other Wild Birds

I'm sitting in the NSW Library looking at a few pictures from last night. According to the data on the image file the last photo was taken at 3am (closing time) and none of my room-mates got kicked out (a few people I was drinking with at the hostel didn't even make it in, but that's what ring of fire does to people). The venue was the Scary Canary somewhere in Sydney city centre. I met a guy who was at my interview for the charity job in the queue, he got the Oxfam job, plus he was giving out 'free entry wristbands' for the club so win win!

A double winning?

A good night, beer and dancing with people of every nation (the cool nations that matter, ie. Britain, Italy, France and Germany) We're the symbol of peace and harmony in the modern world, referring to stereotypes and laughing at them (Yes, Germans have a sense of humour and no, the French didn't quit early) plus the music was pretty good, nostalgia style (Aussie DJs love Eiffel 65). I don't remember everything but what I do remember was brilliant, which is fine by me!

The EU's got nothing on us! (From me going clockwise: English, French, Italian, French, German)

So later in the day (after waking up at the crack of noon) I decided to go to the Botanical Garden and read up on Save The Children. I did that for all of ten seconds as the garden was in full bloom and smelled amazing, like the most amazing flowers ever! Great hangover cure if you happen to be near some tropical flowers that blind you with colour and infest your nostrils with sweet scents. I whipped out the Samsung and started snapping, but not before going 'SUPER MACRO'!

I WANT EXTREME CLOSE UPS! RAAAAAAAARGH...

There are loads of photos, but here's a few gooduns. Note the friendly Cockatoos (they're like pigeons  only louder, bigger and with sharper claws) and some kind of spider, but I didn't want to find out if that was dangerous! I should have written down the plant names, but a 'Dicksonia Youngiae' by any other name would still smell as sweet (even though it's a fern tree).

This guy crept up on me so I had to snap him!

I crept up on this guy because it's not the kind of thing you want to startle.

Government House

Happy Birthday! I got you a bench!

I hope you liked those, there are a shed load more below plus more photos of me and my room mates (if you like that sort of thing?)

Click on the slideshow above for more photos!