Wombats, Wallabies, and Skinks, Oh My!

My day started this morning when I stayed up until 4am because the dryer was broken. First I forgot to put the stuff in the dryer, then my stuff was still wet. Then I put that in and did it again but they were still wet. I finally left my clothes there overnight and gave up. On the upside, I got to refresh the website that was giving a minute by minute update of the Apple announcements about the new iPod stuff...and it happened at 4am my time. (cool stuff! iTunes 8! $100 cheaper! glad I waited!)

Today I got up, had breakfast, and left with Angela for the zoo. We took a train and went a little too far and ended up crossing this huge bridge to walk back. It was over the water and right near the Opera House. Breathtaking for sure! I took pictures of course (almost forgot my camera!), 60 in all. I would upload them now but I'm battling the internet and trying to get iTunes 8.

I petted a walaby (smaller kangaroo pretty much), saw: skink (lizard), chameleon, dingo, gorilla, gliding rats, platypus, kangaroos, red panda, koalas, komodo dragon, seal, basilisk, tazmanian devil, and a bunch i can't remember.

It was crazy! I saw so much! Highlights were petting the wallaby, seeing the Tasmanian devil, seeing a family of gorillas play and the two younger ones were fighting, and the dad pulled one off! It was awesome. It was cool to see a platypus too, I had no idea they were so small. We also saw these jumping/gliding rats that were nuts! They'd crawl up and down the glass and jump from the glass to a branch and keep going up and down and round and round. No echidnas though. :(

On the way to the zoo we saw a motorcycle with 3 wheels. It went by quicker than I could take a pic. It had 2 wheels on the FRONT. I couldn't believe it. Crazy.

We walked to the wharf and took a ferry to the zoo. It was $23 for the zoo. :( I took great pics of the Opera House as we went by. After the zoo, we rode a bus to the dock, took a different and much fancier ferry back, and then rode a train back and walked the rest. Dinner was that shephards pie again...

I am exhausted from all the walking today and I'll go to bed before midnight hopefully...

Cheers!