Saturday, February 21, 2009

Day 8 - Shopping, Swimming, and Night Zoo

We have still been having trouble getting posts with lots of pics posted from China...finally got one through...this is from our holiday trip to Australia while we were in Cairns.

Today we decided to go to a mall, which had another Target, & shop for clothes & souvenirs. This Target was much better in the clothing department. We ended up getting Amanda a ton of dresses. The toy section was still disappointing for the kids but they were able to find some pretty cool souvenirs at other shops in the mall. We headed back to the resort & they kids went swimming.

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While we were gone, Dave took his kids to the beach right across from the resort. He had been swimming for about an hour when the lifeguard told him to get out of the water because there was a shark and jellyfish spotted. Nice.....especially since this area has a net that is supposed to block marine life from entering. The beach never did open back up during the rest of our stay.

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View of the beach from the front of our resort!!!

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The Cairns Night Zoo was planned for the evening. After having a good Barbie (Australian for BBQ), were took a tour through the zoo. We each got a flashlight to help guide us through. The kids thought that was pretty cool!

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They had a dance & sing along at the end. One of the leaders grabbed Ron to dance & as many of you know, the white boy can't dance!! He was such a good sport!!!

Tomorrow will bring about another adventure down under!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Awesome pictures!!!!...as usual. The night zoo seemed really cool -
Kim - are you going to start collecting Koalas again? They are so darn cute!! ; - )
Mom/Nanny/MIL