The Aquarium at Darling Harbour

For the last day of the Easter holidays we decided to use our handy dandy aquarium passes and headed in to Darling Harbour. The beauty of going to Darling Harbour is that it's right by Craig's work, so he was able to join us for an hour or so.

Even though we visit the aquarium often, there's always something new going on. For the holidays it was Where's Wally? The kids had to find Wally hidden all throughout the aquarium.

As always, we enjoyed the different exhibits, and spent a while just watching the sharks swim.

We grabbed some lunch at the aquarium cafe, Hunter and Mackenzie got an eye patch with theirs so it was pirate time.

And of course Kingy, not to be outdone, needed his picture taken too.

Since it was pretty quiet still, we decided to pop into Wildlife World too. Last time the kids didn't get many butterflies to land on them, so this time they came prepared with caps, the butterflies seem to like those for some reason. They really love Kingy's hair though, so he spent the whole time we were upstairs trying to run away and hide so they wouldn't land on his head. It was pretty entertaining.

Reptile Park

We went to the Australian Reptile Park. It's about halfway between Sydney and Newcastle, and made for a fun day out.

There were lots of really great exhibits including a Spider one that poor Kenzie wouldn't even come inside, our girl is terrified of creepy crawlies.

The classic, redbacks in the dunny.

There was also a really neat Egyptian themed one, it had snakes and crocs in it.

Here's the gang checking out the Crocodile teeth.

A giant Tortoise.

Tasmanian Devil.

An Emu, these birds are kinda scary.

Alligator feeding time.

We took a break for lunch and enjoyed the sun for a bit, the kids had a run around on the playground.

Then we watched the park's biggest resident, Elvis, the Saltie have his lunch.

The kids patted some Kangaroos

And met a Koala.

After another show, they got to hold Rustus, the baby Wombat.

We saw dingoes, and no they didn't steal my baby!

And finally some Flying foxes.

It was a really nice park to spend the day at, I think we will happily go back again sometime soon.

Easter 2010

Thursday April 1st was the kids last day at school, for the term. Mackenzie had to decorate a hat or basket for the parade and Hunter had to decorate and name an egg. Kingy and I went along to watch, it was really cute, and all the kids did such a great job.

This is Mackenzie's hat.

Hunter's Egg was named Eggie Joe, from the band, Green Egg Day.

Good Friday was Hunter's birthday, and then on saturday the 3rd, we were off to Brisbane. Craig wasn't able to come with us this time due to work, so we decided against driving and thought we'd try out the train instead. We left sydney at 4:12pm and arrived in Brisbane at 5:30am on Easter Sunday. It actually went really well, Hunter and Mackenzie were armed with their DSi's which kept them busy. Kingston watched some movies on the dvd player, and I had a cooler bag filled with drinks, snacks and dinner. They played, read some books, did some colouring, had dinner, and by about 9pm all three were sleeping soundly, and they stayed that way until around 5am when we were nearing Brisbane, and the carriage lights came back on.

Here they are, all ready to leave Sydney.

My mum and dad picked us up in Brisbane, and when we got to their house we saw that the Easter bunny had visited. The kids did a little treasure hunt and found lots of eggs and a toy each too. They were very happy. Later we went out to Springfield to walk around the markets and the kids got to join another egg hunt. They were very lucky, we are actually still eating the chocolate now, 3 weeks later! Easter Sunday ended with a delicious dinner, and a very early night.

Somehow all that chocolate turned Kingston into a T-Rex.

We were up nice and early and feeling refreshed on the Monday, one of our favourite things to do in Brisbane is to visit Southbank, it's a manmade beach down on the river, and they have built a wonderful water play area for the kids there too now. We packed up a picnic, and drove down to Kangaroo Pt. We like to park there and take the boat across to Southbank. It was a perfect day. We all had a good time, relaxing and eating. The kids swam and played and tired themselves out, and Kingston joined the big boys for a game of league. I think we have a future superstar on our hands. The whole week we were there, anytime he saw Chris or Kellum he'd drag them off to play tackle.

Hunter and Mackenzie drying out and relaxing.