A Visitor from Canada

Mary's mother June has been visiting us from Canada for the last few days, so we've been showing her around and doing the touristy stuff. Yesterday we were up at the Australia Zoo. We went up with a couple friends of ours and their kids. Everybody was getting close to the cute animals.

As part of her birthday present from me, Mary first got to meet this charming fellow.

It was pretty good for both her and Yoda, the fuzzy guy on her lap.

Of course, no trip to the Australia Zoo is complete without large terrifying animals.

And some small ones with Brett's kids.


These roos could be pretty terrifying if they were in a bad mood, but lucky for us (especially lucky for Oscar), they were amazingly tolerant. Even when they were being used by Oscar as a drum.



June got to meet the dingos - she's part of the pack now.
Mary then got to meet the echidnas - Fatty, Tippy, Yellow (Yellah in Australian), Three Foot, Dame, and Prickle.

Note that my fully grown wife is far more excited by the wormy tongue than the 12 year old girl next to her.

The pile of insect mash in front of the echidna had only recently been smeared on Mary's hand. How nice for the vegan.


Mary the echidna whisperer.

We all fed Suba the elephant.

Mary had the wombat encounter all to herself. I wanted to get her in a little wagon and have the 4 tow her like warhorses towing their fearless leader in a chariot, but the handlers said no.

Here she is emulating her little friend Dozer (Dozah in Australian).

We closed the day with Oscar going for a drive.

And Burrow the womma taking a trip around the shop, with Henry in tow.
Today we headed out to the Botanical gardens.

At the top of "Mount" Coot-tha before we headed to the botanic gardens.


Flower shots are obviously an important part of a visit to the gardens.




And a sunset from Mt. Tamborine.

It's been great having June here, but she's en route for the rest of the continent shortly.