Day 19 - The Circus is in Town.

We thought today that we would take the girls to see the circus for the first time. Lennon Brothers Circus has been around for what the Ringmaster said was 115 years. They were quite excited all afternoon about seeing the animals at the circus and were quite enthralled for the first couple of acts.

That was all until the clowns turned up. As soon as Olivia saw the crazy men with their faces painted being albeit a little bizzare, she wanted to go home and screamed the house down. Clowns are scary creatures right?

Day 18 - Fun at Birdland

Today we went to Birdland Animal park in Bateman's Bay.

There were plenty of birds and animals to look at, from wombats to deer and plenty of peacocks roaming the grounds. Of course as soon as a peacock looked like it was walking in Ava's direction she freaked out a little and wanted to be carried, which had a domino effect naturally. Once we got them to walk again we went and looked at the deer and ostriches. One of which followed Ava along the length of its enclosure.

After about 20 minutes of wandering and looking at the animals, the girls had about had enough. We sat down under the tree for some snake handling and photos with wombats.

When the girls are older we'll attempt a visit to Birdland again. Hopefully their relationship with animals will be much improved.

Day 14 - We're going to the Zoo, Zoo, Zoo...

Today marked the first day of our holidays. We packed up the car and headed off for our holiday accompanied for the weekend with Jenny, Sam, Austin, Andrew and Madison. Our first stop was Malua Bay, unfortunately the weather wasn't beach weather so we changed direction and headed for Mogo Zoo.

Mogo Zoo is a beautiful zoo which we have visited on a number of occasions. The girls loved roaming around looking at the animals. Jenny fed the deer and the kids loved watching the monkey's running around. Of course my favourite were the giraffes, I thought this was a rather cute picture with the baby giraffe sitting down and the male giraffe toying with the crowd.