We got to go to the best place in Australia yesterday........THE CROCODILE HUNTER ZOO!! It was the funnest time we have had here! And yes I finally got to see a kangaroo. About time. They are such funny animals though. As you can see in the picture they kinda look like deer. They aren't as colorful as the cartoons make them either. lol. There was this huge area that you could just walk into and there was kangaroo's everywhere! They were pretty tame so we were able to walk up to them, feed them, and pet them and they would barely even move. They were pretty funny though when they hopped! They have these short front feet that they do not really use and then their back legs are long and almost have "springs" in them they described it as. They were so soft though, we went back a second time to play with again! My FAVORITE part of the zoo though was the koala bears!! They are just as cute and cudly as the T.V. makes them look. I guess they sleep 19 hours of each day so they were all sleeping just about the whole day
we were there. Both Tandri and I got to get our picture's taken holding a koala, and we didn't even want to let them go!! They are almost like little babies, the zoo keeper just laid them in our hands and the koala's just snuggled up close to us and hung out. They have the funniest hands, two thumbs and then a big space then three fingers. Their nails are really long and sharp so they were a little prikley. We are trying to figure out a way to bring one back to Canada. Early morning we got a change to feed the elephants, which was so wierd! I thought that they would just such up the fruit through their trunk but they actually use their trunk as more of a finger and pick it up and bring it to their mouth. Their trunk was covered in snot...ewww. It was a cool thing to do though. We got to watch a show in the "Crocoseum" where they did tricks with parrots, eagles, and kookabaras, snakes, and of course....Crocodiles. The crocodiles were pretty boring just watching them in thier cage but in the show they were so much more exciting. They are so much quicker then they look and are
such big animals! They can jump totally vertical which was so cool to see. The zoo is totally dedicated to Steve Irwin. I remember when he died and we were still in Canada, and we just kinda "Oh thats too bad, he was a crazy guy." Here the total country admired him as their hero. He is like the biggest celebrity here and so his death was such a major thing. They had this row that was so long of messages that people had wrote to him. I guess when we watch the crocodile hunter on tv and he's doing tricks with the crocs its actually filmed in that exact zoo. His wife Terri, and kids Bindi and Robert actually live there and walk around. I was hoping to see them but I guess they are over in the states right now promoting Bindi's fitness video. We got to see so many more kinds of funny animals there. Wombats are like these super fat balls. haha. They have these short little legs and kinda reminded us of dogs. We also got to see a tasmanian devil, they were kinda boring though. A komodo dragon, but it just sat there and did not move. Dingo's which are wild dog's and look exactly like a big dog. Enchinda's are kinda like a big spiky
porcupine, and possum's are actually pretty cute! So yesterday was such a fun day for us! Today we checked out Surf City Christian Church and it was pretty cool. They broadcast their service on tv so its like a Springs Church, for those of you who have heard of that. Check out
www.surfcity.org.au. Then we got to go golfing again, except today was a little bit colder. It was cloudy and a little windy but it was nicer then playing in 35 degree weather. We are pretty tired from all of the excitement within the past couple days! For those of you who don't know.....Rachelle (Tandri's mom) is going to be featured in Canadian Scrapbooker for her scrapbooking room!!!! We are sooo excited for her! Hope you all are having a good week!
We got to go to the best place in Australia yesterday........THE CROCODILE HUNTER ZOO!! It was the funnest time we have had here! And yes I finally got to see a kangaroo. About time. They are such funny animals though. As you can see in the picture they kinda look like deer. They aren't as colorful as the cartoons make them either. lol. There was this huge area that you could just walk into and there was kangaroo's everywhere! They were pretty tame so we were able to walk up to them, feed them, and pet them and they would barely even move. They were pretty funny though when they hopped! They have these short front feet that they do not really use and then their back legs are long and almost have "springs" in them they described it as. They were so soft though, we went back a second time to play with again! My FAVORITE part of the zoo though was the koala bears!! They are just as cute and cudly as the T.V. makes them look. I guess they sleep 19 hours of each day so they were all sleeping just about the whole day 
we were there. Both Tandri and I got to get our picture's taken holding a koala, and we didn't even want to let them go!! They are almost like little babies, the zoo keeper just laid them in our hands and the koala's just snuggled up close to us and hung out. They have the funniest hands, two thumbs and then a big space then three fingers. Their nails are really long and sharp so they were a little prikley. We are trying to figure out a way to bring one back to Canada. Early morning we got a change to feed the elephants, which was so wierd! I thought that they would just such up the fruit through their trunk but they actually use their trunk as more of a finger and pick it up and bring it to their mouth. Their trunk was covered in snot...ewww. It was a cool thing to do though. We got to watch a show in the "Crocoseum" where they did tricks with parrots, eagles, and kookabaras, snakes, and of course....Crocodiles. The crocodiles were pretty boring just watching them in thier cage but in the show they were so much more exciting. They are so much quicker then they look and are
porcupine, and possum's are actually pretty cute! So yesterday was such a fun day for us! Today we checked out Surf City Christian Church and it was pretty cool. They broadcast their service on tv so its like a Springs Church, for those of you who have heard of that. Check out www.surfcity.org.au. Then we got to go golfing again, except today was a little bit colder. It was cloudy and a little windy but it was nicer then playing in 35 degree weather. We are pretty tired from all of the excitement within the past couple days! For those of you who don't know.....Rachelle (Tandri's mom) is going to be featured in Canadian Scrapbooker for her scrapbooking room!!!! We are sooo excited for her! Hope you all are having a good week! 
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