August 25th: Toranga Zoo

off to the Zoo!!

sky view of the park

so sleepy

view of the harbor from the zoo

stuck to the wall

the size of a penny

this lady with a stroller was coming up to a ramp right by the rams and she shouted "Oh My God A RAM" but Danielle and I thought she said "Ramp" because she had a stroller and I looked at Danielle and said "Gezz she is just too excited about that ramp." Then we realized...

what are we looking at?

two lizards that were not a zoo exhibit fighting

thanks for telling me where i am

just in case

painted by the elephants themselves

stick bug

leaf bug

weirdest chickens i've ever seen

chicken got loose!!

week old baby lamb

wallaby

echidna (Australia's porcupine)

flower clock in the garden

Tasmanian Devil's cage

7 meters long...

this is a California Sea lion and they made him call and then asked the crowd what was different about him. The trainer replied "He has an American Accent"

Pooh

just chilling

he came right up to the wall that you could lean over to see them.

i finally weigh nothing!

so excited for feeding time

something is in the box...

i thought it was funny they had deer as an exhibit and people were amazed, when i see them in my own backyard. but i guess that's how people here feel when we freak out about seeing a kangaroo

totally wanted this for a camp out

back in the village with mama duck

mama's checking me out

pink Galah... they are everywhere

All together in front of the stretch hummer for Yamal's birthday

something is wrong with this platypus...

Today I got up early to head to the zoo with the AIFS group. Our program organized it for free for us and it was totally worth going. We were there for about 4 hours and saw almost everything. It was really interesting seeing the Australian animals. They had a lot of exhibits where you walked into a huge cage and the animals were able to walk around you: this was the case for the kangaroo cage, they were just out in the open and 3 feet from you. The ranger would yell at you if you stopped off the path, but it confused me because it seemed like such a dangerous option to both humans and animals by having a boxing kangaroo within reach and fully armed. I was also in another exhibit that I could’ve pet the little wallaby if I had wanted to but I didn’t want to chance it and get bit… we had a lot of fun at the zoo.

Then I got ready to go out with the group for one of our friend’s birthday. We went to his house first and hung out for a bit. Then the stretch hummer came to pick everyone up. Anthony and I were the only two who didn’t want to pay for the hummer so we walked to the bus station to take the bus into the city. It was still a lot of fun on the bus with Anthony. He made us get out at a stop too early so we had to walk around a bit in the city but once we got to the hotel lounge that everyone had met at we chilled and left when the bar that we were going to was open. It was one of the best nights I had in a while. We partied and danced. I was with the best people and there was no drama: perfect night.

When we got back the night took a turn for the worse though: I had gone to take a shower and when I was done I was unable to turn the knob back to shut off the water. I had called Anthony over from Deniz’s to come fix it but he was unable to turn the knob either. We left it to deal with it in the morning…hoping that it would turn off then.