The first day in Australia!!!

Starting out on our tour of the wildlife sanctuary.

Hello to all my friends and family! I have finally made it to Australia! YEEHAW! :) It is really hard to get internet here in Australia, so please bear with me! It is actually Wednesday night here in Australia now. The small planes from KC to Dallas then Dallas to LA was a pretty easy flying. The tough ride was of course from LA to Melbourne. It was a 16 hour flight. I slept for around 8 or 9 hours of it. The food was AWFUL! We had a double decker plane. Never have I seen such a huge plane in my life! I played games and watched movies in my down time. Customs was a pretty easy process besides when Wyatt got stopped for beef jerky, but it all turned out okay. Finally we landed in Melbourne and were ready to begin our journey!

The animal hospital at the wildlife sanctuary.

When we got out of customs, our tour guide was sitting there waiting for our arrival. Our first eating stop was McDonalds! I will NEVER take advantage of McDonalds again after my previous trip to Sweden when the food was just different. I had some good hot cakes and the people so far have been really nice in Australia. The first adventure we had today was the Healesville Wildlife Sanctuary. It was here where we saw our first kangaroos and koala's. I don't particularly care for zoos but this zoo was so different! My favorite part of the whole thing was the vet wildlife hospital that was incorporated. They work on wild animals brought in from the outside community for free! So not only was that cool, but there were tv's and speakers everywhere to tell what they were performing through the glass. When we were there someone had brought in a porcupine, and they were sedating it while we were there. We also got to feed the birds as they flew onto our arms. FUNNEST FACT OF THE DAY: We were in the gift shop at the wildlife center and I proceeded to see a t shirt that said CRAPMAN on it. I proceeded to ask the gift shop lady why they had this t shirt and what it stood for. He is the "superhero" for recycling toilet paper. She went on to say that he got his name from Thomas Crapper....The inventor of the TOILET! hahahaha! If that isn't funny then I don't know what is.

Downtown Melbourne at night.

Tonight we went out for what we thought was to be a nice dinner. Turns out it was a 3 course meal of which a barely nibbled on any of the 3 course parts...it was some sort of pasta, then it was potatoes and dry chicken, then ended with something that resembled ice cream. Yuck. And we had to pay for our drinks too. :( Well, that is all I have for today everyone. Look forward to talking to you all again tomorrow!