Neighborhood wildlife

Last week Evelyn and I got up close and personal to a bit of Aussie wildlife. She and I were walking home from dropping the big kids off at school when we saw a ring tailed possum in our neighbor's driveway. So we stopped and watched it happily amble around.




Another couple was walking down the street and said it was a baby. The lady decided she would wrap it up in her "jumper" (her jacket) and take it to the vet down the street. I offered to get her a throw-away towel, happy to run in the house to grab the camera too. So she gathered it up and we got to pet it!




I wish I'd gotten a picture of the neat prehensile tail. It was wound so tightly around my finger. Too cool! What a fun morning!
Today was a holiday! And since it's gotten so lovely and warm we decided to let the kids splash around the man made beach at South Bank. It is amazing how kids can be absolutely oblivious to temperature. That water was freezing and yet tons of kids were thrilled to be there. Mike and I were happy to just get our feet wet.








I love seeing our kids work together. They were trying to build a little pool with walls. It didn't work out so well, but they were having fun.




Here we are eating lunch while the kids dried off in the sun. One more week til this baby's due date!