Sunday, January 5, 2014

Australia Day 8--Perth

Arrived at 745 am to find Sarah waiting for me at baggage claim. Oh! I had to wait for my check in at the airport because I scored an emergency exit row window for the three hour flight :-) yes! And I had to pay 40$ in taxi fare to get to the airport not yes. Anyway.
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Sarah brought me back to her house where I got a hot shower and to unpack a few of my things. I also did my laundry and we hung it out to dry (life lesson).  Bless her heart, she knew I was couchsurfing so she gave me her bed. Anyway, we made our plans for the weekend vineyards Saturday rottnest island Sunday and departed for some breakfast, coffee, and the caversham wildlife park to feed a kangaroo and pet a koala.

Stopped in midtown for a breakfast omelet and a chai. Then made our way to he animal park. 25$. You could only per the koalas until 1 so we worked our way there. But we fr distracted by the kangaroo part. Actually fed some kangaroos. Saw one with a Joey as well. They were quite small for kangaroos but I don't think I'd wanna be in an enclosure with a big kangaroo, it's like the tigers in Thailand, I'll hold the baby others all day but get me out of the big ones.
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After the kangaroos we went to pet the koala. Super soft. They were all sleeping as they typically sleep for atleast twenty hours a day.
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After that we went back to the other enclosures. Saw a kookaburra (sitting in an old gum tree....) and a dingo (who does not look capable of stealing a baby), some cockatoos, an emu and I'm sure a few more Australian animals I am forgetting about. Then we headed to the margarette river chocolate favored for some free chocolate samplings.
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Then the vineyard your began. Started at a friend vineyard. Meh. Has three samples and moved on. Across the street was a vineyard where we got 16 samples for 5$. Our server was rather stressed. Would pour is a glass basically throw it at us and run away. Thy was until a group of three girls (mom and two daughter in laws) and their sober driver son showed up and started cracking jokes and really loosened up the server. Sarah and I had a great laugh. After we went to a brewery and ordered a meat and cheese tray? Which I had been craving since the beginning of the trip and a hefe.  We decided to go to one more vineyard, the ugly duckling,  sure enough we pulled in and our friends of four were bellied up with a bottle themselves. We invited ourselves to join them ordered a bottle of white and continued to shoot the breeze until the vineyard closed down (a half hour late because of us). The group are kiwis. Meaning they are from New Zealand. The girls are married to the oldest and youngest son and then the boys mom was with as well. The stories that were told are definitely nowhere near appropriate to be discussed on here. But. After we closed down the vineyard they invites us back to the moms caravan in the caravan park. She lives in a camper. And rv actually. And so Sarah and I joined and the stories and wine continued to flow until the wee hours of the night. Best night yet. Meet some random people run into them again. It's like fate we had to spend the rest of the night having the times of our lives. :-) made it back to Sarah's and I was out just before my head even hit the pillow.
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