The Surprise

Well, On Saturday we got the kids all ready and all week we have been telling them we are having a great family day out on Saturday and not telling them where. So we drove up to this place

The kids were so surprised and so excited. It was a fantastic day too. The first thing we did was feed Elephants, wow it was soooo cool. Take  a look

So after that we went into the croceseum and saw Bindi perform, the girls loved it - Aydon thought that it meant whinge time :) and then they came out with snakes

 He let it go and it went for a big swim, it was HUGE and it swam really fast!!.
Then all sorts of birds came out and it was spectacular seeing them fly out all around us

The top ones are black cockatoo's and one has deep red feathers in it's tail and the other had orange, they were absolutely beautiful.  And the Macau's were so much bigger when they landed on the handlers than they looked in the sky. They were amazing too. it was really hard to get shots of flying birds :), we have a few shots of sky with nothing in it and the roof hehehe
Then Terri, Bindi and Bob came out and then the crocodiles came out and they fed them and it was fantastic.

Along the way we came across this, so we thought - why not...

We then went to the Tiger show, but there were sooooo many people there, I think the whole zoo was there hehe and we didn't make it in time to get a seat so it was a bit tricky with the kids but they were amazing too

We have a few video's of them jumping in the water and playing around, but I will leave it at one video for this post. They were so big!! much bigger again than they seem in this photo.

The best part of the day for me was seeing the Asian small claw otters and I fell in looove,

We have lots of video of them swimming which was really cool as they are really social and they both mirror each other in every action, it was very cool.


We did lots of things in between each of the shows I have mentioned here, but these were the most exciting. There was so much to do that it kept us busy all day and we missed out on the pony ride but the kids were pretty smashed by then so we gave it a miss.
So all in all it was a great day and a great surprise for the kids.
Now I just have to get through school holidays, should be a breeze.... :)
Jane

A bit of a Miracle and other things

Well it's been ages because the kids have been pretty sick. One got tonsillitis and then the poor boy got multiple ulcers in his mouth. I counted ten on one side of his mouth, the poor thing was in so much pain, he even had them on his tongue. He has lost weight and so now he is even more of a skinny stick. But he is slowly getting better.

Get a load of this, I thought that to back the tree quilt I would need to go buy some more fabric, but I thought, no I have enough let's see if I have some in my fabric. I found enough, so that will teach me to look from now on. Then I checked for wadding and found that I might not have enough. I laid it out and...

I did a bit of cutting...

And.....

                                       

Here's the little miracle, I know it isn't much but it still gave me a buzz :) a perfect fit. So now I am sewing the branches bit by bit so that they blend into the background.

                                        

It's going to take me weeks and it isn't the most exciting thing I have ever done but it will be worth it. 

With all this sickness going round I forgot that I need to enter the QLD Quilters competition, I have 6 days to go, so I am taking photo's and trying to get the best look. Hopefully this time I will do better than last year. 

Here's one shot I took that I like

have a great rest of the weekend

Jane