Rothbury On Ann Brisbane

So on the way to Brisbane we stopped overnight at a spot near to the zoo so we could get in first thing in the morning.
The thing with living in a van is that you wake up when the sun does, so i have been awake at 6am every day without fail... and had to wait for the zoo to open at 9am, it was torture.

I held a Koala, my first cuddle in 7 months, he was so heavy and smeld of Ucalyptous. I then fed kangaroos which was super cool, and we ...

... to hang up. Klara also contributed a paper lace doily covered with little round yellow, blue, and green stickers assembled in a mosaic style to show sun, sky, and grass. There were a couple of drawings she made with plastic flowers attached to the drawing. Hiromi did a lot of the "draping" of things. There were about 5 or 6 other kids and a couple of adults. She added her "Hiromi Hotel" neon ...

... and it was a late late night lol

since then we've been staying with Erins friend David and his 2 roommates Jase and Rob. they've been so good to us, letting us stay here for free and showing us around the city. in return Erin and i made them a pasta dinner one night and a taco night as well.

theyve taught us how to play tennis which was definitely a sight to see lol we've gone out to the clubs in the city a few times and may potentially ...

... they'd at least get rid of the chairs when the kangaroo noticed us and started coming over. We were all, "Hello there Mrs Kangaroo", with the camera ready when the bugger leapt straight over the fence coming straight for us, whilst eyeing up the bird seed some lady had given us on our way in. Obviously, we panicked and began backing away but it kept advancing so Dan offered it the seeds and it came and ate them out of his hand, while we stood there awestruck.
About 5 ...

... meaning that females give birth to extemely underdeveloped young, which complete their development in a pouch. Their closest living relative is the wombat (which we also saw at the sanctuary) as they both have a backward opening pouch. Koalas are well suited to climbing trees, they have two thumbs and a square bone-like bottom for sitting in the trees for long periods of time. Koalas only eat eucalyptus (gum) leaves and only 60 of the 800 species of eucalyptus trees ...

... out that we can manage to do this without having to work here and we can spend the time better than starting college in august rather than having to wait another year. Its tough finding work here and we think that wed rather not drain our resources by working in a ****** job when we can stretch out for a good theee months and work towards doing something we really want to do at the same time. We can get back in time for Tonner and Caroleannes wedding as well so its a huge bonus!

It seems that I've been having some pretty low-key weeks lately. With school starting I've been keeping busy with classes and reading and all that other fun stuff! This week did have a couple of highlights though, mainly on Tuesday... So last week sometime I was making quesadillas for Matt and I (and they turned out even better than Qdoba's, I swear!) when Reuben came in and mentioned a 'Taco Tuesday' night at a local bar/restaurant. Now, considering I have not seen or ...

... nichts Gutes, wie sie da am Bus stand und kaum aus dem Bus raus, rief sie mich auch sofort zu sich und sagte, dass sie üb**haupt nicht glücklich darüb** wäre. Es ginge nicht, dass wir hi** irgendwas für uns selbst entschieden und wenn uns was passi**en würde, dann wäre sie v**antwortlich. Dabei hatten wir extra unt**schrieben, dass wir für uns selbst v**antwortlich sind, wenn etwas passi**en sollte und, wie schon **wähnt, auch die ganze Zeit Aufpass** um uns ...

... Island, Australia's second largest sand island. However the train took an hour to plod 30km to the port and we missed the ferry with the next one not due for two hours. Our early was obviously not early enough! But whilst chatting to the staff in the ferry ticket office a loud Aussie voice yelled across the room "I'll give ya guys a lift". So we boarded the vehicular ferry that was leaving imminently with this big fat Aussie who ...