Lone Pine Koala Park

How ya Goin Mate?? - its a new phrase we just figured out. People have been saying it to us since we got here but had no F-ing clue what they were saying until last week. It sounds like "hagn mit" when they say it. Same with "No worries"... here it's pronounced "NowOryies". There are way more things that sound nothing like anything, but I will get into that another time.

So as you may have seen we put some more pics in the Manly Album and added a few new ones. On Thursday we went to the Lone Pine Koala Park!! It was AWESOME!! We got to go right in to the kangaroo reserve where there are about 80 Roo's running around and we could walk right up to them and feed them. I even played catch with the football with one of them. We were laughing our asses off when we were taking the pic when the roo had the ball in its hands... everyone was staring at us wondering why we were harassing the kangaroo when he was trying to sleep. And what the hell we were shoving in its face.

So after doing that for a while we wandered over to the Koala area, there were tons of them there!! 130 or something like that. About 20 of them were just babies, some no bigger than my hand. I thought they were a good size to smuggle out in my pockets but the moms put up a heck of a fight... those little buggers have sharp claws!! So I wasnt able to get any out... sorry guys, I'll keep trying. NowOrryies.
They also had lots of reptiles - 5 of the most poisonous snakes in the world, lizards and frogs. We could have held a 2m boa constrictor but we got there about 10mins to late and missed it. MomK and MomW are prolly relieved we missed it... dont worry, there will be more chances to hold one... maybe even a wild one - you know the kind that have those cute rattle things on the tails!

So last night it was one of the Irish guys, Chris, birthday. We had some drinks at the hostel and the hotel across the street. They were giving away free pint size samples of Guiness!!! They must have known it was his bday. Anywho, we were there for 15mins and he pounded 4 of these "samples" and two pints of the beers he already bought!! We took pics to prove it too! (coming soon) Then we took a 45min train down to the 'Valley' where all the clubs and strip joints are kept. There was some kind of festival going on, so there were all the bar stars out dressed to the 9's, and us in our tshirts. We stood out a tid bit. Seriously though, all the chicks were dressed up as if they were going to grad or a fancy gala. Most of them dress up just to go shopping!! It's crazy. We ended up going to the Shamrock (did we mention they are Irish?)

Alrighty... so tomorrow we are going to try and go out to Moreton Bay Island. I guess there are lots of whales and dolphins that swim around there every evening. You can actually feed the wild dolphins. There is a part of the island that is made up of sand dunes and you can go sand tobogganing, so hopefully that works out, because we only have 1 more day here in Brisbane.

Monday we are NOT heading to Townsville anymore... we booked a hostel in Surfers Paradise for 3 days. Can we change our minds anymore?? It's just to keep everyone at home in suspense : ) Surfers is close and cheap to get there so we are going to check it out. From there we'll decide where to go next, or maybe even settle there for a bit. Who knows!!! Check in next week! dum dum dum...