Australia Zoo

Our adventures for the day found us at Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo. It was a special present for Brandon for his 4th birthday. It's an amazing place. It's a very expensive place but if you're prepared for that then it's all good. The weather was perfect so it was the best day for a family outing. We saw elephants feeding and the 2 boys made lots and lots of discoveries. They found a dinosaur cave with a dinosaur with a very loud roar. They found hundreds of lizards running all over the park. They patted kangaroos and fed goats and sheep and said hello to some piglets. We all went to the Crocoseum and watched the wildlife show. They had macaws and all sorts of other enormous birds plus snakes and pythons. Eventually the biggest crocodile that I have ever seen came out into the pool. It jumped up into the air so freakishly high. It was amazing. We saw the Tiger show and that was freakishly incredible too. I was fascinated by the Tiger handlers. They appeared so complacent. I am sure that was an intentional image they wanted to portray but it was amazing.

By now we had been at the zoo for 5 hours and everyone was getting very tired. The zoo is huge so you have to walk everywhere and we certainly did that. Daddy and I decided to take the kids home. Even though we hadn't had a chance to see all of the animals and the different sections of the zoo, the boys' health and daddy's and my sanity were riding on it. By now Bailey was hysterical and Brandon now had a cold or the flu. So home we went. The 2 boys fell asleep in the car as we drove away just after they had first eaten copious amounts of  food I'd packed for the day. Once home, all 3 of my men had a sleep on the lounge while I sat next to daddy with Bailey sprawled asleep across me. Finally I woke people up, fed the 2 little boys, bathed and showered them and then piled them back into bed. Brandon is very sick so hopefully he wakes up tomorrow feeling much better. Bailey took 1 1/2 hours to go to sleep. I'm hoping that everyone sleeps very well tonight.

Overall, we had a great day at the zoo. Certainly with young kids you probably need 2 days there. It's truly a very beautiful zoo with very spacious animal enclosures. In fact, sometimes you had to go really searching for the animals because the space was that big but that made it interesting and adventurous. We'll definitely go back again.