Melbourne

Thursday came and we decided to head to the Healesville Sanctuary. It was filled with Australian wildlife like Tasmanian devils, platypus and koala. It was quite nice and while there we got to spend about 10 minutes feeding a kangaroo. It was really fun. The seemed spoiled because they only want the treats and not the grass they were suppose to be eating. They are really soft. The animal feedings were pretty good around the park You got to touch a lot of the reptiles during feeding too. We saw the birds of prey display too which was worth going to see. Either birds never behave for these things and keepers just say to people that they are usually more behaved than this but they never behave when myself and Brian are there. One of the parrots refused to go back inside and stayed outside doing tricks and getting treats. Every time the keeper motioned him to come inside the bird looked away. Also a wild diamond tailed something jumped out at the diamond tail bird in the show and they both showed their talons. They were fighting over territory. Then the keeper had to hold onto the bird for the rest of the show while she made all sorts of noises at the wild bird and was very grumpy altogether. They were massive birds. In Ireland when we went to the birds of prey show somewhere in Claire the falcon was released and it was a really sunny day so he left and went for a swim in a lake and then sunbathed on the cliff. We saw the rest of the sanctuary and came back about an hour later when the bird returned for the end of the show. That night we headed out to dinner with Colm and Bobby. It was a really nice big portioned dinner in a restaurant called James Squire. We had a good time chatting away with them and getting to spend lots of time talking. Afterwards we went to a small Italian place for dessert (mostly cause I forgot about dessert in the restaurant).