A day out with Daddy!!

Owen is on RDO's today and tomorrow so today we went to the Botanical Gardens for a play on the swings and a look at all the animals. It's really beautiful up there at the moment. I think they must have a variety of work for the dole schemes going on there and there's a lot of work being done with some new enclosures and things plus everything is flowering and it just looks neat and clean and well maintained.
We had a bit of a play on all the equipment first up of course. Jack is so co-ordinated now and is getting quite adventurous so he just loves things like that and I think Daddy does to. Dad had to have a turn on a few different things, just so Jack didn't miss out of course.
After a good play on the swings and things we headed over to the zoo to check out all the animals. We saw baboons, swans, emus, chimpanzees, koalas, dingos and kangaroos amongst other things. Then we headed down to the lagoon to feed the turtles. Unfortunately for the turtles there were too many ducks and geese around and the turtles sort of missed out. We were there breaking up the bread and I was busy watching Jack to make sure the geese didn't get him when something nipped me on the toe, I looked down and it was a big turtle. It didn't bite hard luckily but it scared me a bit. We were lucky enough to see a peacock displaying it's feathers, it's a shame the background didn't show it off very well though but it was beautiful none the less.

I took Poppy and Ophelia both to the vet's today. Ophelia just needed to have some blood taken for a test and Poppy had some skin cancers removed. Poppy looks pretty sore tonight. She had a large spot on the flap of skin where her rear leg joins her torso so it's in a spot that would get a fair bit of stretch, poor thing. Poppy is a huge dog, like big, big and while we were in the waiting room there was an elderly lady there with her dog, a little long haired foxy or something little like that. Anyway Poppy's there pulling on the lead, choking herself and coughing and going on like a big galoof and this little dog is just sitting calmly on it's owners lap looking adorable with a little pink bow above one of it's ears and a beautiful little light coat on, pink of course with pintucks and ribbons, bows and embroideries all over it. Poppy could have swallowed that little doggie whole, pmsl.

Also, can anyone recommend some good dvds, either new release or older and nothing scary. I just can't find any good movies lately. Ta!!