Survival is Questionable
We survived the heat today (43+ celcius)…
But will I survive the remaining two weeks of the school holidays?
My little fairies
With the weather so hot today, Wren & Mr Bump played dress-ups.
There was only one tiara to go around, but I came up with the suggestion that one fairy could wear beautiful hairclips in her hair, and Mr Bump shouted “me! me!”
Wren was delighted to play hairdresser for her brother, the fairy princess.
We’ve been to the zoo, zoo, zoo.
First off, we had to go on the skycar.
Why? Because I remember what it was like last time we went.
The skycar at Taronga Park Zoo runs from the harbour’s edge at the bottom of the zoo, up to the entrance at the top. The usual idea is to walk down the winding roads past the exhibits and then catch the skycar back up to the top and either walk some more or go home.
We did that last time, and 4yo Wren spent the whole day asking when we could go on it. Here we were ‘oooh’ing and ‘aaah’ing over lions, tigers and bears, and Wren’s squinting up at the sky saying “Can we go on it now?”.
So we were prepared for 4yo Mr Bump to have the same reaction and did the skycar thing first, and again at the end of the day (by which time we needed it).
In between, we saw frogs…
Some very unusual tortoises called star tortoises. Isn’t that shell striking?
Crocodiles snapping, or was that a yawn?
Gorgeous, gentle giraffes against the beautiful backdrop of Sydney Harbour.
If you look closely at the skyline, you can see Centrepoint Tower, our tallest building (and also the skinniest one).
Then we grabbed some lunch in a quiet area, although it really wasn’t busy after the long weekend.
Wren got snap-happy with the camera and that’s why she’s not in the shot.
This is my Mum, below. You can see why the kids love her so much, she’s great fun!
After lunch, Wren made a new friend, who I thought was a bit wooden but still nice.
We also saw a Tasmanian devil, stretched out in the sunniest spot in his enclosure…
Yes, he was breathing (I looked).
Then a family shot of me with the Kidz…
And who could not love these meercats?
Wren wants one for a pet for her birthday next Tuesday, but for some reason they’re hard to get hold of at the pet store.
Poor kid. First she’s not getting a party this year because of the move (and the saving money thing), and now she can’t have a meercat as a present.
Isn’t life tough?
Daddy took us to the zoo today…
And here are the first photos, more coming tomorrow.
Hope you had a great weekend!
School Holidays are Over!
It’s the end of the first week back at school and this is the most relieved I’ve ever been to see the end of school holidays, for several compelling reasons.
Any two of which would be enough to send many people screaming and running for cover…
School Holiday Sanity
On the subject of entertaining the kids over the holidays, I bet I would have had no problems if they had one of these to play in.
But, since they don’t, I’ve come up with a list of great FREE things to do with the kids in order to keep myself sane.