Breaking News!--Finally a video on youtube? & Melon's Royalty?!

Hey everyone, greetings from melon and I! We're home and I'm so happy we're back. As I was laying in bed the other day (I caught a summer cold) I thought about something interesting (at least to me it is). To me, Melon is the Queen of my life (though of course its just playing because Her Highness is the real queen [UK]) so I thought of making a sort of little monarchy of hamsters. I know, it's weird but I tend to come up with the weirdest ideas while I'm bored. My thought process went like this: "Melon is the Queen! her children would be Princess's and Prince's..So when I get the Teddy Bear hamster she would sort of be a princess.. and when Melon moves out she would become Queen.."and yada yada yada..

And therefore now I'm on the verge of making a whole ordeal with this. Then, I thought of the fact that even though I've had a youtube account for years I've never put a video up! Well, there was one of my previous hamster, Nunnalie, but that doesn't count since that was years ago and she's no longer with us. So I started thinking of ideas and I figured, Well, I might aswell do a video now before I become lazy again and then I'm not in the mood. Sometimes I feel like I shouldn't take advantage of the time she's awake during the day/evening but then again I see a bunch of videos of hamsters on youtube and they seem fine. I guess you can expect a video in the next month or so.

I also thought of making her a castle and a crown, maybe even a throne! Lol, I think I might go overboard but I'm probably going to end up just making a cardboard castle to put in her playpen. Plus, even if I made her a crown she's so hyper she probably wont wear it and will just end up leaving it on the floor or chew it up! I feel like I'm ranting but I wanted to post something and since this just happened I decided to put it up. I was debating whether or not to post this because its so short but then I decided I'll just add some pictures and be done with it.

 "Yuh have cheese?"

I love her expression here. ;)

Melon travels the world! And urgent warning!

I'm so sorry! I don't really know if anyone actually reads these but I'm still sorry. I've been so lazy! I'm not going to say I've been busy because, trust me, THAT is something I've definitely not been. Melon and I are traveling together for the first time and it's amazing! You won't believe the things we've been through in just this month. If you'd like to know what's been going on please read on.
So Melon and I have had such a journey! First, we had to drive for a while so I didn't get her a carrier. The main reason for that was because we've never travelled anywhere so I didn't want her to be stressed especially in a tiny carrier with no wheel, no water, no food bowl. Melon was initially going to sleep in my room, as I've always had her next to me on the end table in my own room back home, but the room got So hot at night I was only getting three hours of sleep. Just a side note: I'm very overprotective and paranoid when it come to Melon so when I felt how hot it got at night I couldn't sleep because I kept thinking "is it too hot?, is the water warm?, is the wheel too much exercise? is she ok?"...and so on.
So what I did is that I had to put her cage in the second living room (it's like a more formal dining area and lounge but we only use it for formal reunions) so that I could calm down. I would have liked her to stay with me but she was much better there. Plus, to prove my point even more, when I would check on her at night she was fine but when I checked on her when she was in the room she was spread out flat and almost always drinking water.
Everything was going perfect until the housekeeper got there. Let me tell you a bit of the situation we have. She has taken the role of the boss. By that I mean that after a few months of her working here she started ordering US around and refusing to clean after children and visitors. She gets into huge fights with my cousins and she hates our pets.
One day I was going to clean Melon's cage and as I was walking to the cage I notice half of it is dissassembled! I was already into a state of panic thinking "did she get out? Did the dog attack the cage?" and so on. Melon was fine, she was sleeping in the igloo. But as I examined the scene future I noticed the following:
1) the part of the cage that was not where it was supposed to be was so misplaced that it would have been impossible for just someone bumping into it to cause it. It was done purposely.
2) there was a hill of SALT on her wheel! I say a hill because it was a little hill like when you pour it directly from the container (not spreading it, just in one spot). I know you're not supposed to 'taste unknown substances' (words from my sixth grade science teacher) but I was in a state of panic! I would give my life for this hamster!
I immediately took her out and into her ball so I could clean the cage. As I took the cage outside(after disassembling it) I passed the housekeeper and she asked "what is that?" and I said "my hamster's cage" and she suddenly looked surprised and said "that's Yours?"(emphasis on the "yours") and then I knew, she had something to do with it. I asked around the house and it was just obvious who the culprit was. To sum up what happened next- we got her to confess (everyone breaks under pressure >:]) and she's getting fired. We haven't done it yet because she needs to get another job, if it were up to me I would have called the ASPCA and fired her on the spot!
**Please install cameras and be careful and Never trust your nannies or housekeepers!!!**
The next days after the incident I was on my toes, constantly checking to make sure she was ok and bursting into tears more that once when I concluded she was fine. Melon is perfectly healthy now and she's still travelling with her mommy. :)
I've taken some pictures of her today but they're a bit blurry because I had to use the iPad camera due to my digital camera being out of battery and my own laziness to charge it. I uploaded them to flickr so if you want to see them just click the link below.
http://www.flickr.com/people/bacio_criceto/
Thanks for reading my rant, and bye from Melon and her crazy owner.:)