Mission Day 2

Our Mission: To go to the zoo.

Our Aim: To see most of the animals

Method: We drove to the zoo.It was a long trip because there was lots of traffic.

We Need: Drink bottles,snacks and warm clothes.

How it went: It was fun and funny.We met mum's friend Hollie at the zoo and Tobias's old teacher Ms's Bentley, turns out she is a Zoo Host so she was great to ask questions too! Some of the giraffes were fighting by lifting each others legs up with their heads.

The ostritchs were going crazy. We got there at a great time as the tiger was walking very close to the fence. Back and forwards so we got lots of neat photos of him/her. Tobias's favourite animal was the Meerkats and the tiger, Ilaria's favourite was the Giraffes and the Zebras, Cassia's favourite was the Giraffe, Natalia liked the Ruffed Tail Lemurs. Mums favourite was the Rhinos and the Meerkats!

These monkeys are snuggling together to keep warm.

Two cuties... spot the baby on its mum's back.

ohhhh PRETTY!

A Brolga

our friend.. the crazy Ostrich

the three amigos!

a beautiful waterful

the cheeky parakeet

keeping an eye on things.

We got tired so sat to have lunch down by the giraffes and zebras. The Helmeted Guinea Fowl was a mystery to figure out what it was, lucky for us Ms Bentley was still around so Tobias asked her and she helped us out. We enjoyed the bird enclosure too! One very friendly Parakeet was keen on visiting us alot... had a ride on the buggy and hopped around teasing everyone! We also got to see a Kaka, Tui, Falcon and a Kereru!

between mum and her friend Hollie... we had 8 kids!!

Tobias, Ilaria, Cassia, Natalia, Tyler, Caroline, Izzy and Lexi.

So to summarize... a GREAT day out. Lots of fun was had by all :)

Blog written by Tobias.

Mission Day 1

Our Mission: Go Op-Shopping

                            

Aim: Each child must purchase 1 toy, 1 book and 1 item of clothing each with a $5 budget                    

         Mum needs a decent rain jacket.

Method: Walk to Frankton to visit the Red Cross, then back to Victoria St to visit the three op shops along there.

We need: Drinks, Food, $5 each, warm clothes and walking shoes

                                

How it went:  After making sure Ninja was nice and safe (LOL),we left home at 9.05am... bags packed and ready to go! On our first mission of the holidays, we needed to be rugged up warm as it was FREEZING! 

On our way to Frankton we saw two hot air balloons up in the bright blue sky, the kids loved watching them just hang totally still. Certainly a magical thing to a young child. We also saw some rather random sights.. a traffic cone stuck in a bus shelter and some misspelled words.

When we got to Frankton Tobias found some books from the Red Cross, Cassia a dress and Natalia got a cool wee shirt. We walked out of that store and across the road was St Vincent de Paul... we decided to venture over there and see what they had to offer us.  Ilaria found a mug with “sassy chick” on it, she loved it at first sight and HAD to buy it, Tobias got given yet another book.

After a quick snack we ventured back to town and found the 3 op shops on the main street, from which Tobias got more books . Each girl got a wee toy bike, Tobias some jeans and Tobias and Ilaria each got a water pistol.

The buy of the day... would HAVE to be Cassia’s cassette player! She found it in the Salvation Army for $4, we went to the cassette section and found a Hi5 tape and a few others. Put one in and VOILA.. the bloody thing works! Cassia sat herself up on a high barstool.. turned the player up full blast and proceeded to sing the entire shop a song! Always an entertaining child!

So did we acheive our mission? Not really... BUT we had a load of fun! Mission was completed at 12.50.. so roughly 4 hours of walking (which I can always benefit from), the kids had a ball looking around the shops and it got us out of the house for the morning. This afternoon we played with the toys.. the waterguns were made into "lasers", then "guns" to play cops and robbers. 

Great day all round... now we get to see what we can get up to tomorrow!