Day 3 and 4

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I'd love to write a whole saga, but I am extravagantly LATE, and have got to go immediately before my parents behead me...

Until I'm back (going to Downtown Sydeny again), behold the pictures...

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Ok I finally seem to have some chance to write something... But time too >.<
It's been totally crazy, we haven't stopped. I'm actually in Melbourne now, we left Sydney and are stuck here for the coming week. Anyway, on with days 3 and 4.

So day three was rather... Dull, actually. Not that it wasn't nice or anything, but it was rather slow compared to the rest of the week. Basically, we drovve up to (dum dum dum dum) HUNTER'S VALLEY, which sounds really ominous and exciting and stuff, but is really just a large field-y area where wrinklies taste wine and nibble cheese. There goes...

So we drove for a good 2 hours in the morning (I slept actually) and arrived at (dum dum dum dum) HUNTER'S VALLEY. Then we went to this cafe and ate cheese platters. :· After that, Papa and John went to taste wine and I was left entertaining toddlers... Really sweet, but still, scarily hyper. There was, however, this amazingly cool bookshop which sold 200 year old books and stuff. So that was fun. :D

After that we went to another wine tasting place (the valley is full of them) and we (dum dum dum dum) tasted more wine! Wasn't bad, but I could have thought of more entertaining things to do. Like sleeping in the grass, which I did, promptly, before being attacked by Antonia...

Anyway I'm off, because a certain 11 year old behind me is trying to sleep...

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Back again... No 11-year olds this time... So I can tell you about day 4. 😊

Basically, we went to the Reptile Park, and saw lots of fuzzy (and scaly) animals. 😊 There were kangaroos hopping all over the place (note the photographic evidence) and we had a piccy with a koala too. And Iheld the snake :D. We were watching the reptile show, and she needed a volunteer. For what? We had absolutely no idea. But here was a chance to stand out in front of about 15 people with some potentially lethal monstrosity from the depths of hell in my arms! I couldn't miss a chance like that, so I jumped for it, and being the only brainless adrenaline pumped teenager around (only guy stupid enough to volunteer actually) I was chosen :P

I walked up to the bag, and had a peek at the demon inside... It was a beautiful snake, Burmese python apparently. So I got to act as snake-stand :D. So get this: I had a 3 metre, ~30kg python on me. This python was perfectly capable of crushing me to a pulp in around 5 minutes, and had it been slightly longer, it would have been perfectly capable of swallowing me whole and digesting me slowly. And it was wrapped around me, isn't that great! :P Seriously though, beautiful snake. 😊 Better than spiders anyway, disgusting things. :S

So anyway, after spending a day marvelling and the weird-ass stuff mother nature comes up with to solve the over-population problem, we went to "The Entrance" which sounds like some gateway into another dimension but is really just a nice bit of sea-front. Everywhere was closed (at 5, these people are BORING) so it wasn't much fun, but we had some fish and chips and a photoshoot atthe playground.

Anyways, off to attempt the next Journal...
So long amigos :P

James.

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Photos

Kids playing around
Peter, Christian and Saskia plpaying around in Hunter Valley.

Zzzzzz
Me dozing off in Hunter valley

Chainsaw
This little monster is a crocodile called Chainsaw. if you see him in the street, RUN. He flies (not really but he moves fast) and he has TEETH.

Me with Burmese Python
Yaaay i volunteered and got to hold the Python... She's a real beauty.

Me with Python again.
It was a good 2m in length, and apparently could have crushed me to death in about 5 minutes. Also, if it had been slightly bigger, It would have been able to swallow me whole. :D

Bats
Mama was teriffied, but they were really cute.

Me and Pete with the Kangaroo
I was feeding it bits of grass

Kangaroo with Joey
Isn't he cute!

Super-Croc
MASSIVE. Think 2 and a half Peters head to toe.

Comments

[Nicole(aka the gf)]

:O:O:O
hey there :) First of all great photos!!! :D:D except...I'm not sure if Im going to let you hug me again James, after that snake *hugged* you :O:O:O brrrr.... awww the koala is really cuteeee :O:O:D:D even the kangaroos :D take care and have fun!!!! ;) :D xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[Giulia]

Koala
ooooooooo the koala....ssooooooooooo CUTE *o* !! hahaah...he s like stitch... but a sleepy one XD chainsaw -now that s a great name for an croc hehehe And the kangaroos hmmmm they look o so relaxed but yeah they ARE cute - the cutest ancestors of the t rex...:) :) thankx for uploading james - pics are really sharp!! enjy..the weather there looks so much better than it is here :/ Giu

[anonymous]

the poicstures are too cute (: especialy that koala (: I WANT ONE!! miss you all .. be back soon ehh

[Faye]

:O
Im jealousssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KOALA!!!!!!!!!! How cuteeeeeee :):D:D:D:D!!!! I WANT ONEEEEE :)....ek in my room ill buy him a tree and he can hang there...hehe...maaaaa how cute. Its like ure enjoying it alot...Im glad...take care of each other!! Thanks for letting us see what u guys r up to...it keeps us updated :) Missin u all! xxxxxxx

[Beppe (The One and Only)]

Bats!
How can your mum be terrified of big black hairy animals? She gets on fine with dad.... and he snores and passes San Pawli comments....

[Jeanette]

mistakee..
btw .. that comment was from me (:

[Finian (as if there is any doubt about who that is...)]

Pics
I personally like the wombat, and if he is able to do some programming and web design in addition to hacking, then I would hire him :P However, for some reason I think chainsaw would be the best at hacking.... slacking and goring too :P Snake is cool, held a articulated python like that once - they are beautiful creatures XD although I could barely lift him at the time :P