Today was a lazy day mom, Jeanne, and I stayed home while dad and David went to David’s dad’s wedding  (Editors note: On motorcycles, driving at 110 KPH on the WRONG SIDE  OF THE ROADWAY!)  Jeanne showed us how to make earrings and I made about six pairs in between drawing. It was really peaceful with nice music, the waves crashing behind us, the sun on our necks, and the beads glinting in the sun. We did beads and drawing almost all day and I wasn’t bored at all once. As we were doing beads we heard a rustling noise I turned around and saw the biggest lizard I had ever seen. It was HUGE easily the length of my arm span and as thick as my arm. I managed to get a few pictures before it ran away. Later on we had pizza with Annette and Murray. And you probably think I’m going to say ”and I fell asleep almost immediately” well you’re wrong! And I fell asleep immediately.     

Day 11 in boomerang zone 11/21. 

Today we woke up and started to pack for our camping trip at pebbly beach. We didn’t bring any laptops phones or any electronics it was going to be fun. Later when we were all packed up we drove towards pebbly beach. When we got there we had to drive on sand and through water (a river) before we arrived at our campsite it was nice there was a bunch of bushes and sand and we were right next to the beach. We set up our tents and I went in the water with David’s boogie board and caught a few waves. Later on we had a camp fire and Murray taught me how to play cricket and David played with me later. I went to read my book after supper in the tent and was interrupted by mom who said that there was a possum in the tree and I went to see it. It ate out of my hand and almost crawled up my leg before it disappeared in his tree. We got in our sleeping bags and went to sleep.

Day 12 in “Stay out of the water, croc pool” 12/21

I woke up and freaked out. I was in some sort of cave with a monster. I could hear it’s breathing and it sounded like a truck downshifting on the highway. I chanced a glance in the direction of the noise. I realized I was in the tent and the monster’s breathing was my dad snoring. I got out of the tent and stretched. Later on we had a breakfast of toad in the hole (an egg in toast) and bacon. After breakfast Murray found a goanna (a big Monitor lizard) and chased it into the bush. Later,  I heard it and thought it was a little rabbit or something. I tried to catch it. I scared it out and suddenly wished I wasn’t so scary. A huge lizard easily 6 feet long shot out of the bush and up a tree. I stayed clear away from bushes from then on. Unfortunately we had to go so we packed up and went for a shell hunt before we left. night we ate out and got Thai before I was too wiped out. I fell asleep before we got home.

Day 13 in sad goodbyes country Land 13/21

Today Murray, Annette, Courtney and two other friends of D&J came over for breakfast and goodbyes. We had croissants and orange juice on the outside table. Murray left first and said his goodbyes We talked some more, then Annette and Courtney left and we gave hugs. We said goodbye to Jeanne and started the ride up to Brisbane. We rode for a while and I finished my book so when we stopped in Byron Bay I got a new book called The Dream Walker’s Child and ice cream I went for a swim in the water and was plummeted by a big wave. We drove up towards Brisbane while I read my book. It’s about a boy Sam who is really interested in bugs and crashes his bike when one presumably stings him and is sent to another world.
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Day 14 in (I’m running out of ideas) land 14/21

 I woke up looked and did something really amazing I….Fell back asleep. I woke up about an hour later and everyone was starting to get up so I got dressed and we set off to the transit terminal with David we had breakfast there croissants again and walked towards where the bus would stop. We said our goodbyes there and David walked off sadly. We found our bus and made our way towards I’ll give you 1 line to guess… 

The Australia zoo!

We took a boring ride on the croc express and when we finally got there it was incredible we first walked over to the croccaceam to watch 4 shows snakes, tigers, birds, and CROCS! We missed the snake show but the tiger show was incredible the tigers leapt off rocks, swam in the water, played with toys, you name it. And I know one of my friend’s favorite animal was there. The tigers walked out and the birds came in. A man was holding two cages of birds and he talked about how smart they are and all that stuff and apparently he had two volunteers who stood up and went coo coo while he released the birds. The pidgeons flew away almost immediately and the guy ran after them while the real birds came out. There were lorikeets hawks and macaws plus a water bird that swam. The birds flew off and the croc came in. It was small looking in the water but when it came out boy was it big. It jumped up and grabbed the meat out of  the person’s hand and swam off the person grabbed more meat and went to this platform that hung over the water and the croc jumped straight out of the water, grabbing the meat and gobbling it down. We got up went to have lunch and did so many things and saw so many animals that if I tried to name them all it would be wasting my vacation sorry. We got back to the hotel and just crashed like the croc hitting the water.