Meeting Kangas and Koalas

So today, we went to the Australian Reptile Park which was super coooool. Cool because there are, incidentally, all kinds of creatures running around the place!! There were wallabies and kangaroos just hopping around the place with little kids chasing after them. We got a number of great photos with the animals which was cool. There was an emu running around too but I was somewhat afraid that it was going to hurt me or cut me with it's enormous talons lol. I think it liked Nick, though. We met some Dingos as well; they really just look like skinny labs, haha. The guy that runs the shows there is a lot like Steve Irwin, what with playing with lethally venomous creatures all day long. We watched that guy feed a 170kg croc with a chicken tied to the end of a 2ft stick! We also watched him piss off a Sydney Funnel Web Spider, one of the most lethally venomous spiders in the entire world. I swear, just like Steve Irwin. The place was a lot like a zoo but it let you get a lot closer to the animals, which was really cool. Before we went there, we ended up eating at this absolutely terribly cafe thing. I ordered a tomato sandwhich (to-mah-toe, not to-may-toe) and a medium fries. The fries ended up being seriously HUGE. It probably weighed 3lbs, no joke. It was photo-worthy as I have never seen a larger portioned order of fries.

After the reptile park, we went to Umaima Beach which was beautiful. It was on the Central Coast. The drive there was really nice, nice winding roads up hills and through valleys. That place reminded me of what I imagine Hawaii to look like. Little surfer kids running around everywhere and a picture-perfect beach. So picture-perfect that apparently Nicole Kidman has an island that you can see from there. Haha. Yeah. We ended the day by going to a Japanese restaurant here in Glebe which was great.

Speaking of Glebe, I guess I havn't taken any time to describe it. Glebe is a very laid-back, old area of Sydney. The type of place where everybody knows eachother. There are pastry shops, fruit markets, a couple of "hippy stores", book stores, cafes and the like. It really is a cool area of Sydney and really is the most relaxed suburb that I have been to yet. Everything is easy to access from here, as it's only about a ten minute bus ride to the CBD. It is a bright and colourful neighbourhood where the people smile and say "g'day". I do like it here and I think I'd like to live here if the opportunity arose. Hopefully it will!!

Steph