Category: Travel

We got up reluctantly (both Kevin & I hadn’t slept well), packed and checked out. We headed to Old Dubbo Gaol.

It’s so weird to see all these buildings all around it. Sad in a way.

We spent a hour exploring the gaol.

It’s quite small but the girls really enjoyed it.

Then it was time to hit the road for the long drive home, stopping to get a box of cherries  and then later a box of mangos.

Once again we stopped at Lithgow  but this time for lunch.

We enjoyed Veggie Burgers, but were impressed to find the real burgers were made with Organic Beef.

The trip through the Blue Mountains was a little slow, with lots of road works going on.

Then the sat. nav. decided to take us a strange way through Sydney. Once we realized, we ignored what it said and went home the normal way.

Then finally we were home. Tired and sick of being in the car.

As usual I was first up. The girls set an alarm for 7am and everyone got up and ready for the day. We arrived at the gates before opening and were able to secure ourselves a buggy in which to explore the zoo.

There were lots of animals to be seen – most of these photos were taken by Kevin.

This baby Rhino was one years old. How cute is he?

The giraffes were are favourite and we were lucky they came down really close.

There was time for an elephant ride :-).

Though we hadn’t had lunch yet Kevin decided it was time for ice-cream. I guess it is a mini-holiday :-).

By this time we were nearly half way round the zoo, though we found the second half to be missing lots of exhibits.

Back at the entrance we had some lunch, while watching some monkeys and lemur’s. Then it was time to visit the play park. The girls spent almost an hour playing on the flying fox.

We then did another lap of the park, allowing the girls to have a drive – which they loved,

and stopping the see a few animals again.

I took a whole lot of video, which I’ll put together when we get home.

It was a very hot day so we’d had enough by 2pm and headed back to the apartment, where we were quick to jump into the pool.

We spent the remainder of the afternoon relaxing and most us had a nap – even I did – which I NEVER do.

While debating purchasing this Iditarod hat I had to laugh at the cart…

Dinner tonight was tacos. Love that the place supplied a tablecloth.

We watch America’s Got Talent and some animal documentaries (CHristy had another swim) and we gradually went off to bed.

On Tuesday night we made a very last minute decision to head to Dubbo Zoo this weekend. Thinking it might be our last chance to use our annual pass and not wanting to go in the high-heat of Summer. Looks like we missed the window though we temps of around 30 degrees.

We packed up and set off once the girls were home from school. We were lucky to not hit much traffic as we drove through Sydney before heading through the Blue Mountains.

Then over the mountains….

while I started work on a new blanket (thanks Heather for the help)

and finally into Lithgow…

where we stopped for dinner at Subway.

Christy had a bit of a meltdown  over not getting the dinner (plain roll) that she wanted. She ended up not eating and was in a bad mood for ages.

We hit the road again as the sun was setting…

Don’t the plane vapor trails look so cool?

One last “toilet” stop at McDonalds.

Finally after way too many hours (6 instead of the 5 we thought it was) we arrived at the Country Apartments and got checked in. I quickly grabbed some photos…

we got unpacked and fell into bed at 11pm. Because tomorrow we’re off to the Zoo!!!

Oh, and isn’t this the cutest little bottle of milk you ever did see? I’m not letting anyone drink it 🙂