Friday, February 20, 2009

I am officially in Australia.  Yesterday, we went on this bus trip to a place called Victor Harbour.  It was really boring, but I had delicious fish and chips.  After spending 2 boring hours there, we went to Umbirra Wildlife park and I got to see koalas and kangaroos!!!!  There were so many kangaroos, it was a little crazy.  They were everywhere and we bought food for them.  Since they are in this park, they are very docile and everyone just walks around with them and pet and feed them.  If you held your hand too high for them to reach the food, they would stand up and put their front arms onto your hand and hold on to you.  Their arms are so strong and their claws so big that it kind of hurt, but made for a really cool picture!  I even saw a joey in the pouch of a big kangaroo.  It was funny though because I always thought that joeys sat upwards with their heads sticking out of the pouch, but apparently that isnt true.  For most of the time just the long, back feet and the tail were sticking out of the pouch.  When the head would pop out it would be right between the feet which looked really funny!!  The koalas weren't as exciting.  They were very cute, but you couldn't feed them and they mostly just sat there while you pet them a few times.  We saw some other animals like crocodiles and wombats.  I dont think the crocodiles were real though because we stood there for like 15 minutes waiting for one of them to move and none of them did.  Well they moved their eye lids but still!!!  It was a really cool trip and I got lots of pictures.  I am having trouble getting my pictures to upload to shutterfly and then facebook wouldnt let me do it either.  Im going to try a few more times and I will let everyone know as soon as they are up!

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