Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Reptile Park Excursion

I was lucky enough to chaperone Alaina’s school excursion to the Reptile Park and it was great fun!  I had a group of 6 kids and we got to enjoy several shows and talks and see a lot of really cool animals!

Watching the show

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This little guy was pretty cool…you couldn’t really tell which end was his head

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Some kids volunteered to hold some of the reptiles and then got to walk around to show their classmates.

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Cute ‘lil wombat

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After the first show, I took my group to explore the other animals…here are the dingoes.

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We all had fun with the kangaroos that were hopping around the park

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Ready for the Tassie Devil Show

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Cute baby Tasmanian Devil

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More exploring

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This tortoise was awesome and on his way to enjoy a nice snack!

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Bus ride back to school!  It was a fun day!

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Sunday, September 8, 2013

Festival of the Winds

After the school fair on Saturday, we had another busy day on Sunday as we headed for Bondi Pavilion for their annual kite festival.  We met up with some friends down at the beach for lunch, some fun kid activities and playing in the sand while watching all of the amazing kites flying high in the sky.

Here’s Evie with her cute little face

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Waiting patiently for her turn

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Hallie making sure Kyla was doing okay

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Pretty butterfly!

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Sweet Alaina!

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Amazing!

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Kyla keeps wanting to wear this shirt, but I keep telling her that her sisters have to wear it then too….lil’ stinker!

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Fun with a friend

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I wouldn’t normally allow something like this, but they were having so much fun and I knew they were going to miss the snow this year, so…yeah, not so fun to clean out all this sand later!

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High Fives!

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