Aussie Animals & the AFL

Yesterday Julian, Hannah, Gwen, and I went to Featherdale National Park… basically a cool petting zoo with a bunch of Australian animals… I pet/fed a lot of kangaroos!! I also pet a wombat, a koala, an emu, and some random other guys… all of them were cute and I took lots of photos.


After Featherdale, Julian and I went to the Blue Mountains in Katoomba. After getting off the train we walked for half an hour to get to the national park where we walked around on a trail for awhile to see the Katoomba Falls, the 3 Sisters (3 rocks next to each other), and some pretty views… then we walked back and took the train for 3 hours back to Bondi.


I'm tired so I'm not going into much depth but the message to take away is that it was a really really good day! :o)

Today we went nearby to Paddy’s Market where they sell pretty much everything… Fruits, veggies, pasta, meat, fish, seafood of all kinds… also, clothes, souvenirs, sunglasses, and other random things. There some weird fruits here like bitter melons and custard apples. We tried a bitter melon last time, it was pretty bitter but alright in stirfry and we got a custard apple this time but haven’t tried it yet.

We just got back from the Sydney Swans v. Western Bulldogs pro AFL game!!! AFL = Aussie Rules Football!! We got to go for free because of a history of Aussie sport class that Julian is taking! It was fun, the sport is really weird but cool, and the Swans won! 114-70… If you don’t know much about Aussie rules, it’s a combination of rugby, soccer, volleyball, and basketball and the refs do weird official things like toss the ball in backwards over their head or throw it on the floor so that it bounces really high. There’s also like 10 referees.