Dubbo Zoo!

Wild dogs

Lemur

Old elephant

Cheetah

Meerkats

Camels and goats

Black rhinoceros

Everybody and the buggy

Last week the McEnnies went to Dubbo Zoo. Tom and Hunter took bikes and Mum, Lisa, Fletcher and I took a buggy. We went around the whole zoo.  The first animals we saw were the African wild dogs.  They were really cute and one of them even got up to say a little hello and then sat back down again to go to sleep.  Then we saw the rhinoceros and we listened to the rhinoceros talk.  Then we got really bored and so we went back to the buggy and the bikes.  We drove around to other animals.  We saw tons of animals like the lemurs, the meerkats, the tapir, the giraffes and the camels.  My favourite out of all of them was the lemurs because we saw the zookeepers feeding them.  It was funny because I took a picture of the lemurs and I didn't realise that I actually had the monkeys in the background.  At the end we did a big drive around and passed all the animals instead of actually going to look at them.  After the big drive around the last animals that we got to look at were the lions and this place were there were wallabies, 1 emu and some koalas.  When we went up the koala viewing place we saw this really cute little curled up possum behind a gum tree branch and it was raining so he was trying to keep cover probably.

Southern leaf-tailed gecko

On Saturday whilst daddy and tommy were playing othello mum screamed "Hey guys come and look at this". So because I was downstairs watching tv I immediately turned off the tv and ran into the garage where mum was.  I found her looking at a southern leaf-tailed gecko.  When I saw it I ran upstairs to get dad and tom.  So they both came downstairs (I also grabbed the video camera) to mum.  Then I turned on the video camera and videoed it. It was on a bag and mum sort of shook the bag a tiny bit with her foot and then it scurried off under a surf board and a couple of boxes under the garage.  I was sort of scared of it at first and then I thought it was kind of cute. So when it scurried off I was sad.

Camping!

On Friday at lunchtime we left to go to Woollondilly River.  It took 3 hours and there was this really long track that went down to the river.  We were the last ones to get to the campsite and when Marianne and the Mennies saw our car they were so excited.  I went into the river straight away and had a good time.  Unfortunately I got stung by a bee but it was a lot better than it would have been and I pulled out the stinger myself without crying.

At the camp there were lots of birds and my favourite ones were a blue wagtail and this yellow bird.

This is the yellow bird

This one was the cutest!

Mummy also saw a heron on the other side of the river.  Probably when I was picking blackberries.

The heron

The blackberries that we picked

At night time we cooked lots of marshmellows by the fire.  They were really yummy and gooey and Hunter's one actually caught on fire.  After that Mamma put some music on her phone and we all started dancing.  The only songs that I can really remember were Move Like Jagger and Tonight's Gonna Be a Good Night, and on that song all of us kids just randomly made up a dance and I have to say it was a pretty good one.

On Saturday Lisa said that we were going to make some damper snails and the boys and the dads and Darcy went out on a little walk whilst Lisa, Marianne and I went looking for damper sticks whilst Mummy and Fletcher stayed by the fire.  When the boys got back we made the damper rolls.  Mine was the third to be ready because I had to cook the bottom a little bit more but they were really really good with butter and golden syrup.

Making damper rolls

Me and my damper snail before it was cooked

Marianne and her damper snail before it was cooked

On the last day we were all really really sad to leave but we got to do some final races which were fun. Then it started raining really heavily so we all sat under the gazebo and finished off the biscuits.  Then we got home and I was really excited to sleep in my own bed.

The movie Puss in Boots

On Monday Lisa, Hunter, Fletcher, Mum, Tom and I went to go and see Puss in Boots, well at least that's what we intended to do.  Instead Tom cut his eyebrow open and Mum had to take him to the doctor because he fell off his skateboard.  So Lisa, Hunter, Fletcher and I couldn't go to the movies in the morning but then Mum found out that we could go to another cinema to see Puss in Boots.  I was quite happy that we got to see Puss in Boots in the end because it was really funny and weird at the same time.  My favourite character in the movie was Kitty Softpaws because she had really really soft paws.  In the movie there was this really funny cat that went "ooooh" every time Puss and Kitty Softpaws did something weird.  The reason why I thought it was funny was because Puss was at first a hero and then turned into a bandit.