Pirates of the good ship Team Adventure

NO PIRATE THEMES IN THIS POST!

Now that's that out of the way, onto the story. Well, recently those of the left behinds that are still in Melbourne decided to go on a little day trip to an animal SANCTUARY. Not a zoo mind you, a SANCTUARY. IN order to get there at a reasonable time we had to get up at about 6am. That's a one hour lie in for me folks, so I was a-o-k. The others were grumpy, yawny and that kinda annoyed my so I showed it! I mean, we were on our way to see KANGAROOS and stuff.

Here Fiona shows how tired everyone was.


Emma was SO TIRED she accidentally sat down beside ME on the tram... Even though I was furious.


The girls, before we left, didn't stop for even a minute about how cute Australian marsupials are and all sickening crumminess like that. Hence I was surprised when Rachel and Emma 'conquered' Australia by stomping a baby Roo (they're called a Joey) into the ground and then lording it over all the Australians in the SANCTUARY. Nutso ladies.


Then in a complete reversal of fortune for tiny Australia, the girls 'saw' a koala and in their haste ran over to hug (Rachel the harlot!), poke (typical Fiona) and kiss (shame on you Healy) it.






Luckily for koalas everywhere, they didn't realise it was a statue until afterwards. PLONKERS.

Ah but then. Then we turned a corner and saw a REAL LIFE KOALA BEAR. Check this fatty out! This guy was just sitting in a tree, minding his own business even though there were three squealing Irish girls and a Ronan trying to get his attention. But Mr. Koala was way too cool to play ball. That guy was so book.


Then I felt like I had been punched in the back by Mike Tyson. But no, it was just this Emu guy looking like he was GOING to kick or peck me or something. His LOOK hurt.


And you know how some people walk around terrified of Kangaroos? Well, that's just silly. For one thing the Roos are pretty cool. Also, they are LAZY. SO LAZY. I mean this guy is so lazy he wouldn't even get off a sofa to look for a remote control.


After the kangaroos we faced almost certain death. A pantheon of pelicans were guarding the path and they are big with beaks the size of trees. Also they smell. But as intimidated as we were, we stepped through the fence and they were pretty cool guys! They even lined up for my fancy photo!


Each of my flatmates and teammates had their very own favourite animals in the sanctuary. Emma's was the Platypus. Platypus' are amazing and TINY. It really does look like someone's playing a huge joke on the whole world. Anyways, they're pretty fast and mostly underwater so I couldn't get a photo of a real life one. Fiona managed to get a few here though. It's little statue will just have to do I'm afraid. Rackers favourite was the wombat because it is a puddin'. Also because it is super cute apparently, even if it has given rise to the affectionate term 'bag of dirt'. All of you! I command you go forth and call you significant other your 'bag of dirt'!




There were so many creatures it is impossible to go over them all. But I'll do a couple more anyways! Here is a dingo, which is SIMILAR to but not THE SAME as a dog and also crazy fruit bats! WOOOOOO!




And then we went home. Everyone was pretty pooped because of the extra walking and stuff. Rachel was even asleep on the train. It wasn't until I looked at this picture on the aul computator that I noticed she had STOLEN A BABY WOMBAT. Check it out peeping out of her BAG (typo fixed 06/08/2006!)! Jeepers!




That is all!