The zoo

We took Dee to the Zoo yesterday and had a great time - despite the weather looking ominous early. The highlight of her day was getting to cuddle a koala (and the photo of course), while Ellen from the moment we set foot inside the front gate wanted to hold a snake. So eventually we found an opportunity for her, but the only snake was a big one, so we had to be in the photo too - see above.
The kids were delighted by just about everything, although had some trouble staying attentive during the Crocoseum show - a bit slow and too far away for them to pick up what was going on, so we had a couple of wriggly worms to keep quiet for a while.
Ellen's nickname (or one of them at least) is wombat, and she was very taken with one that was walking around the park on a leash with some keepers - in fact it was hard to tear her away from talking to it and patting it...the wombat didn't seem to mind too much as long as there was plenty of grass to eat.
The highlight for Olivia and I was watching some koalas down on the ground and having some minor altercations, so they were running around chasing each other, and then wrestling with each other for quite a while. Unfortunately they'd finished by the time that we found the others and brought them to have a look.
Oh - and both the girls liked the spinning tea cup ride, so that bodes well for theme parks in the future.
Today was the Big Pineapple and Opals Down Under, and tomorrow is hopefully a surf and then the Glass House Mountains to climb one of the smaller ones...