Like most kids Jude and Anna spend a fair amount of time in the car. All of this time is spent in their car seats, certainly not in the drivers seat. But in Dubbo, where we went recently for a four day weekend, they both had their first taste of what it is like to drive a car. You see, the Dubbo zoo is huge – almost 1,000 acres and so you can drive your car inside the zoo. They have a 10km/h speed limit so it is very slow going. On our first day there it was raining and we literally had the zoo to ourselves so Marcy let Anna and then Jude sit on her lap and steer the car around the zoo. They didn’t do too badly for a first attempt. Below is Jude looking out at the giraffes in the rain.
Luckily we only had one bad of weather in our four day trip to Dubbo. We made it to the zoo three times and by the end of it we had seen most of the animals. One of the best things about this zoo for us is that they had a big kids area which we frequented after seeing the animals. On Sunday they had a big bounce house and there was a big playground that included this hippopotamus that Jude took a liking to.
We arrived back in Sydney on Tuesday with just two weeks remaining on our trip. We are trying to make the most of these last days so today we all went out for some exploring around Sydney. We went to Fort Denison, the tiny little island in Sydney Harbour right near the Opera House. Then it was on to the museum and finally we did a trip up Centrepoint Tower, the tallest building in Sydney. Here we all are being attacked by a giant koala on that visit…
Jude loves animals especially dinosaurs. This is not news to anyone who knows him. But what he really loves to do is create stories with his animals as the central characters. Yesterday, he put together this very elaborate scene on our dining room table where the animals were all in a circle wearing clothes pegs. We didn’t hear him setting this all up so we don’t know what the meaning of it all was but he spent a lot of time creating it and wanted us to leave it there all day which we did.
