animals

we went to healesville sanctuary today. it was gorgeous because you didn’t feel like you were in the city zoo– like in LA, where all the animals are behind a wire fence. 🙂 these barely had a little rope strung across. the emu’s would come right up, i thought they would jump right over the puny rope. ha! the kangaroos were quite lazy… sleeping. chris frightened them and they started hopping, i thought for sure they were gonna jump out and drop kick us. the dingos made this funny howling noise and all i could think of was that movie with meryl streep. 😦 the tasmanian devil was this funny little animal, looking nothing like Taz. we went right up a one wallaby. cute little thing. i was too chicken to get any closer though.

but our favorite by far were the koalas. sweetest little animals. usually we sorta-see them faaaar away up in the tree at the LA zoo, a little ball of fur, doing nothing. just zoning out from eating so many leaves. but this was different. we were so up close. one woke up and toddled around, climbed some trees, ate some eucalyptus leaves. chris said they reminded him of Stitch from Lilo and Stitch. totally!!! cutest little snuggle bugs is what they are. they kinda reminded me of my kids. 🙂 i want to take one home.