Awesome day

We had a family day today and my SIL is leaving to go back to the UK tomorrow. Spent part of the morning at the Waterfall Cafe and Gardens. Its great, although looks much prettier in the summer when all the waterlillies are out. Its an old quarry that they have turned into these gorgeous gardens. The girls love it (although its hard to get them not to run around up the top - huge drop down to the bottom of the quarry) and we had a few heart in the mouth moments. They have alot of little areas set up for different themes and also most of the ponds have goldfish, turtles or eels in them. (something to keep the girls interested in LOL) Then we had a lovely lunch in the cafe. Its really nice.

After that we decided to head out to the Rescue Zoo Park. A few years ago it was really run down and the animals were in such poor condition that some had to be put down. It was then sold to a guy who trains animals for tv and movies and the animals are now being well looked after. The grounds themselves are still quite shabby and run down, but I guess it must cost alot of money to look after them all. They have lots of monkeys, a pig called pumkin lol, two lions, a serval, an otter with only one eye, heaps of birds, ducks, deer, donkeys, emus, sheep, goats, dogs and one zebra. The girls just loved it!!!!! Most of the ducks, doves and chickens will eat out of your hand, which they thought was fantastic. I can't wait to see what they do with the park. They have some big ideas and I do hope that they are able to achieve them. They take in all sorts of animals that have been mistreated and that in itself is a very worthy cause.