2nd day of day care wasn't quite as rough for either mother or daughter.  Still not perfect but I guess that all takes time.

After dropping my friend off to work Mia and I started to make our way to Alma Park Zoo  www.almaparkzoo.com.au.  It was a choice made knowing I needed to be close to home in case I was required for day care duty.  I must of been a little cocky from the day before as I never checked the map and the next thing I know we are 20 minutes out of our way in the opposite direction from where we should be.

We finally arrived a little after 10am, paid our entry and made our way into the zoo.  The draw card for me was that you can feed many of the animals which I knew would appeal to Mia.  The zoo was hard to navigate with the pram, most of the pathways weren't paved and the pram I had borrowed had a problem with it's front wheel.

Most of the animals were easy to see except the sun bear and the kangaroos were very friendly.  It took Mia some time to work up the courage to feed them but once she did she didn't stop until we ran out of food.

We had to make our way back to the city to do the day care pick up at 2pm and this time I wasn't blessed with an afternoon sleep.

The evening brought a new arrival to our party of 5 with Cheesey from Germany.  He had spent a year in Perth teaching German at UWA a few years ago and played baseball with my friend's husband.  His trip to Brisbane is part of a much longer Australian visit.  Unfortunately for him my friend's husband was diagnosed with chicken pox on the same night so the few days partying he was expecting fell into a heap.

Mia and my arrival meant a full house so Cheesey had to sleep in the lounge room.  Mia came running into my room the next morning saying "Mummy, there is a man in the lounge room - come and look".  She took me by the hand and led me in to peer down on poor Cheesey who I am sure wasn't expecting 2 kids and me to be staring at him whilst he was sleeping.  His holiday was never going to be the same after that.