Animal adventures

Today the kids and I celebrated the end of the holidays by going to Lone Pine Animal sanctuary with my Dad. We started the day nice and early (thank God! The heat was/is amazing today - extremely tropical). We arrived at the sanctuary while the cages were still being cleaned, animals fed and no people apart from keepers to be seen. Nice. We had a lovely stroll through the Australian animals and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. The kids had ice-blocks, photos taken holding a koala, each got a little toy to remember the occasion (Miss J a kookaburra; Master M a platypus), patted kangaroos, goats, sheep, a pig, cow, emu, wallabies.... a very enjoyable day. They've now gone over to play with the neighbourhood kids and tell them about their day.

Joy.