Steve Irwin Zoo ~July 31, 2010~

Continuing from where I left off the other day...Thursday was the Angels and Demons theme for 240V. Not as many people dressed up for that as they did for the Toga party. Kelly had people over her room and we played drinking games. We won 3 games of beer pong in a row! (woot woot Champions!!) Then Justin and his 2 friends Robbie and Mike came. Robbie is from North Carolina and Mike is from Germany. So ya, Robbie and Justin beat us (barely!) but c'mon...North Carolina...what ELSE does he have to do than play drinking games lol. Kidding. So I was excited to go out, Alice was going too and I love spending time with her she's so funny, but not many people ended up going, so we all just hung out in Kelly's room after the Pav. Kelly and I ate a whole bowl of gaucamole that she made and a bag of chips...YUM! Friday was great not having class. Kelly and I laid by the pool all morning and part of the afternoon. It's so great to have a pool right outside my door at school! We made a huge salad for lunch, it was delicious! We got our Uni photos taken and then we took a well deserved nap. That night all we did was watch movies with Justin Robbie and Mike at my place. We watched Angels and Demons, a Planet Earth documentary and then The Breakfast Club. So great.
Yesterday we went to the Steve Irwin Zoo!! Me, Kelly, Justin, Robbie and his two friends Liz and Stina went, we took a bus from Uni. Liz is also from North Carolina and Stina is from Norway, just like Sebastian. The zoo was so much fun! It was gorgeous outside, warm and breezy, not too hot and it was so good to walk around, get some excercise and see all the Australian animals we don't have back in the States! Kelly got to hold a koala and got her picture taken with it, and Robbie let me be in his picture with it, though he got to hold it. (It cost $20 to hold it.) The pictures are on facebook under Kelly's name because I didn't have my camera. We got to feed and pet the kangaroos there too! It was a huge open area called "Roo Heaven" and you just go in and they are all roaming everywhere, and you just go right up to them and feed and pet them. They are so cool and SO SOFT! Softer then the koalas! They were nice and tame too and so interesting to watch! A couple started growling at Kelly one time, it was really funny. We saw tasmania devils, red pandas, wombats, elephants, tigers, so many birds and snakes too! We went to a show called "Wild Warriors" and got to see crocs in action! It was HUGE! I volunteered for a bird thing, but it was just me making a fool out of myself, but I won a free croc poster with Steve Irwins wife in it, originally $2o! I got a boomerang and a Australian Zoo shot glass, and a tiny stuffed kangaroo. I have a great picture of Kelly and me with a beuatiful colorful parrot too. My favorite part was probably watching the 3 elephants there. They were playing in their pool and I actually heard the noise they make with their trunks! I've never heard it in real life before! They were rolling around, dunking eachother and spraying water with their trunks. It was adorable watching them be so playful! The tigers were really playful as well. They would just go right up to the trainers and hug them and play with them, wrestle and cuddle. Freaking adorable. I was pretty jealous. At the end of the day we were exhausted. I made dinner for Kelly and myself, spiral pasta with alfredo sauce, chopped tomatoes and feta on top with garlic toast. We hung out and watched How I Met Your Mother all night with Chris. We had a bit of wildlife our own. A gecko got into the room and was on the wall and Kelly looked terrified past me, so I got up and screamed because I thought it was a giant spider and it was just a teensy gecko, as long as my index finger, and Matt laughed so hard and caught it and threw it outside. He said it would stick to something...LOL. So yesterday was such a great day. Like I said, there are plenty of pictures on facebook for you to check out!