Dinosaur sighting

On Saturday we went to the Australia Zoo to celebrate Robert Irwin's 9th birthday with him. He likes dinosaurs so the whole zoo was decorated in Jurassic motif. We got to meet paleontologists and add clay to a model of a dinosaur.


During the Crocodile Show we got to sing to Robert and he got to meet a dinosaur! A life size australovenator! Oh, and the guy in the hat is the paleontologist who discovered it in 2009. How cool is that?


It was the most amazing dinosaur I had ever seen! It was a puppet controlled by a man inside! It blew any animatronic dinosaur out of the water! And the best part was we got to meet the dinosaur later in the park!

He had such character! Sometimes he'd get cute and lay his head on the ground for the kids to come scratch him behind the... ears.


Kids and adults alike were enthralled with it! Evelyn did NOT like it... at all. So we went to the zoo and the highlight was a pretend dinosaur! But I did finally get to see an echidna! Every time I've been to a zoo here they've been hiding, but I finally got to see one!


It's kind of a bad picture if you don't know what you're looking at. They're much bigger than I thought they were. I thought they were like a small hedgehog, but they're closer in size to an o'possum or porcupine. Anyway, I thought he was way cute.