The Zoo

Two blog posts in a week! Say whaaaaaaaaaaaat!

The other day work sent me home early because we were quiet (probably because the temperature was around 35C and it felt like we were melting) so I called Mathias and he came down to the zoo. Here are a few pictures of my colleagues:

There's a new lemur enclosure that you walk through so the lemurs are just hanging around next to you! Cool!

Scratch and sniff, "do I need to shower yet?"

Dad?

Pygmy hippo! He was dancing under the water. So cute!

Poor monkey was being banged at on the window BY AN ADULT! I wanted to slap him.

Enchilada!

Monkey in a basket

Sometimes I serve canapés by this enclosure, which is pretty cool

The butterfly house is cool. If you stand still long enough they'll land on you (I don't have that much patience)

New baby elephant!!! He's just a couple of weeks old. It was the end of the day so he was exhausted and sound asleep.

Orangutan thugs

Smacking his brother in the head

Mathias has a profound love for platypuses (wikipedia tells me there is no agreed upon plural form for platypus... platypi? Platypussy?)

There is an ice lolly over here called Golden Gaytime - a source of much humour for us, and Mathias finally got to try one.

No.

Sleepy wombat!

Kangaroo slumber party

Meow

There's a place just south of Melbourne where you can see these penguins in the wild! We are going to go sooooon!

Giant tortoise! I need one.

Melting in my work trousers

All in all, I work at a pretty cool place!

In other news, I still have a cold and I still want more sympathy. Thanks!

Merry (late) Christmas!

I'm ill so I can't really be bothered making a post :( Father Christmas brought me a cold this year. I would have preferred reindeer poo.

Christmas was fun! But also a bit weird. So many people were out on the streets, the trams were packed, and the beach was absolutely heaving! A lot of people were wearing santa hats at the beach, and one group had even brought a Christmas tree with them. Everyone had beer with them.

I worked until 4pm so we just went to the beach for half an hour to take some pictures and experience an Australian Christmas, then came home and made a traditional British Christmas dinner (but with kangaroo instead of turkey :/)

Mathias got me a knife for Christmas! How sweet...

He seemed quite pleased with his book

and cinema tickets to see The Hobbit on opening night. Unfortunately that meant I had to go and see it with him. It wasn't quite as shit as the other Lord of the Rings film that I've seen (and no, there is no difference).

I'm working a lot at the moment and looking forward to having money for once. It was quiet today so I finished early and called Mathias to come down to the zoo, so we spent a couple of hours looking around, which was nice as I don't usually get time to see the animals.

Ok I'm rambling now. Time for paracetamol and sleep.