Weekend Adventures

Well, this weekend was an interesting one! Last Friday I ventured out in the car by myself for the first time--I only drove in the countryside on our way out to the Great Ocean Road, so this was a little different! I just went to Costco down the road, but it was city driving including getting out of our parking garage and parking at Costco. Thankfully, all went well! On Friday night, we headed to Tom's apartment with everyone for tacos and to watch the last Friday July fireworks session just outside of our condo in the Docklands Harbor.

Saturday we ventured to the Healesville Sanctuary with the Ericksons, about an hour & 1/2 outside of Melbourne. There we saw kangaroos, a wombat, dingos, emus, birds of prey, a duckbill platypus (which Jason was thrilled about), a Tasmanian devil, snakes, pelicans with huge pink beaks, koalas and huge bats all in their typical habitats.

We ate lunch there and not too long after I threw up for the first time during my pregnancy. Later when we arrived at home, I threw up again and didn't feel very good, lacking energy into Sunday. Here's a pic of the tray of liquids Jason prepared for me:) So I came down with a little bug and am regaining my strength after doing liquids and bland foods.

We laid low on Sunday and didn't make it to church or the museum as we planned, but Jason went out for an errand and came back with a little stuffed wombat for me--it was my favorite animal at the sanctuary:) my hunny's so sweet!

Jason and I went to dinner last night and confirmed another Australian phenomenon with eating out--they usually don't let you take your leftovers with you as hardly any of the restaurants have a 'license' to do it. I'm not sure if the cost of this insurance is astronomically high, but we've had to wolf down the rest of our meal (mainly mine:) on several occasions which has left a bad taste about those restaurants, and last night when we ate at a Thai restaurant, I asked if we could "take away" our leftovers before ordering. Our waitress said yes, but Jason had to sign a waiver before we left basically saying we wouldn't sue them if we got sick. Pretty crazy!