Rose By Any Other Name

This weekend we went to the Werribee Mansion Park again for the Rose Garden opening which was BEAUTIFUL!  I have so many pictures of roses now!  :P

The best part though was Zach figured out how to smell the roses so he was walking around doing over exaggerated sniffs and then saying “ahh.”  Well he found this one rose that was just slightly taller than him that he wanted to sniff so he started pulling it down to his face to smell only to discover that it was full of rain water.  It splashed all over his face and nose and he freaked out!  The best part was though I just so happened to be trying to take a picture of him with the shutter button down on my phone so I caught the entire sequence on camera! 

It’s so weird to think that it is spring here.  My brain is wigging out whenever they start talking about doing a picnic or a beach day for Christmas and how we’ll be roasting in January when it’s over 100 degrees every day.  It’s going to be so fun but so weird!

Moonlit Sanctuary

Shawnie had her birthday here a few weeks ago which was absolutely amazing.  Since we can’t really take much home with us when we leave we are trying to focus holidays on gifts in the form of memories or experiences so for her birthday we went down onto the peninsula and spent a few days in a beach house, since it's spring here (a weird notion to think of November as spring). 

My favorite part of that trip though was on the way there we stopped at a place called “Moonlit Sanctuary.”  It was a place where they had all different kinds of Aussie animals that you could interact with.  I have officially hugged/cuddled a koala.  :D 

However the coolest thing was they had this area in the back where they just had domesticated kangaroos and wallabies wandering around free range and we were able to buy some food and hand feed them.  IT WAS SO COOL!!!

They love the forests here, which while impossible to explain or photograph are extremely beautiful, so you walk through this path in this forest and they are just everywhere sleeping on the sides of the path or following you.  Even Zach was able to hand feed a few. 


Since it’s spring it’s also baby season and at one point I had four wallabies (they are like mini kangaroos) eating out of my hands, three of which had baby joeys hanging out of their pouches!