Perth Day 5 & 6

Day 5 was a long day but pretty uneventful. Glenn had to be on the ship by 2 am on Saturday morning so we planned on going to Fremantle for dinner that evening, but that is all we had planned. We slept in, hung around the hotel, went to lunch and then went to Fremantle that afternoon. It was a rainy, lazy day for the most part. Just what we needed.

I really hate the day the guys leave for obvious reasons, because he is leaving, but also because it is the longest, most agonizing day. Sometimes I wish they would have to be on the ship at 5 or 6 am. He would wake me up, kiss me goodbye, I would go back to sleep and wake up and it would be a normal day.

Laura and I ended up dropping Glenn and Tyler off at the ship around 11 pm after a few stops a the microbreweries, but they didn't make it to the carrier until 3:30 am. The seas were rough and the small boats kept breaking the mooring lines when they tried to pull up to the George Washington. (Australia doesn't like a nuclear powered ship to pull up to their pier so the GW has to stay about a mile off the coast and small fishing boats take about 90 people at a time back and forth).Laura and I took the train back to Perth and headed to bed. A random side story though, Laura checked out of her room that evening and was staying in Glenn and I's two bedroom, two bathroom suite! Glenn and I got upgraded to a suite his first night in the hotel because the walls were paper thin and Glenn has a, well... boisterous laugh. Banging on the wall from our neighbors ensued with a response from Glenn and a visit from the receptionist and bammo we get upgraded to a suite. Yay! I now know what you get for $100 a night- paper thin walls. Worth the money for a nicer hotel!

So the next morning the girls and Mike had planned on going to an animal park to see kangaroos and koalas up close. We first had to deal with several cases of wine which I'll blog about later, but then we took the train about 30 minutes away to Cohonu Wildlife Park. Our flight didn't leave until 11 pm so we had all day before we had to head to the airport.

The part wasn't the nicest place in the world but they let you wander around with most of the animals. We got to feed kangaroos and wallabies. Here's my new friend, he likes yellow peppers.We real attraction of this not so nice park though is they let you actually hold the koalas! They are the only park in WA that lets you do this. Most you just get to pet and take pictures with. They rip you off to do it, but whatever, I was in Australia.One of the koalas had a baby quite recently and it came out its mama's pouch for a short time. It was so cute! The koalas have very soft hair but it is thick like a sheep. They are just so snuggly though. They hold right on with their giant claws (hence the vest).
Yay Australia! Such a good trip!