Family days out

So it's finally much needed mid-semester break and I thought I'd take this opportunity to spend a bit of time with my sisters since I must say I've been really busy with school, work and training this semester. So far, we've taken trips to the Royal Melbourne Show 2007 and Melbourne Zoo. The latter probably sounds a little too childish a place for us but what can we do, we love looking at animals. Let's start with some pix from the Melbourne show...

Cake wanted to check out the 'Art&Craft' hall. It was a big hall with all the grandma stuff with a lot of grandmas walking around. Stuff like paintings, baked desserts, scarfs, and other things grandmas do to pass time at home. But some of the things they had on display were quite amazing like these cakes...

I like that lil snoopy in the window to the left

Tororo Tororo

I thought this one was truly amazing

But I didn't really get this. They all looked the same.
I guess they were rated from delicious to shit.

There were all these rides you'd expect at a fair. We felt a bit too old for them and didn't go on any but watched all the kids have fun.

Distracted by the little boy in the bee suit

And of course all these funny looking prizes...

Ding ding paw paw

We particularly liked the cats and dogs they had on show.

Super affectionate ragdoll

Sleepyhead

Another sleepyhead

This is a cat

This one looked so bored

You can say most of them were bored and sleepy.

All in all, it was quite a nice sunny day out

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Having seen all the cats and dogs from the show got us in the mood for seeing more animals so we visited the zoo a day later. The forecast said it was gonna be 21c on the day but it felt nothing like it, which sucked. Didn't stop us from having fun tho.

The girls snacking on some home-made sushi

This snow leopard was gorgeous. One of my favourites.

Japanese garden

Tree kangaroos... quite strange

Merekats

Gorilla spotting

This gorilla was magically pulling out of nowhere his never ending supply of vegetables. Was very funny to watch.

Dad???

The butterfly room was pretty cool

Pie was a bit squirmish with all the flying caterpillars

Entrance to the Thai elephants

Poor elephant

A bit of Thai food area

Lunch break

I've never had anything saltier than this chicken teriyaki

On to the reptiles...

mm.. forgot what snake this was but the way it sleeps is pretty cool

An uncircumcised water turtle

A chameleon, one of the coolest creatures in my opinion... definitely far superior to geckos.


A baby Jabba

Gob

Gob lek

We ended up spending 6 hours at the zoo. Despite a bit of drizzle, we had a good day.

The end.