petunia travels // Caversham Wildlife Park

previously in the {petunia travels} series...

Singapore // Perth + King's Park

{just a note: all of our pictures are from our iPhones,

and I didn't edit any of them beyond resizing them for the blog}

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if you don't want to see lots of pictures of cool Australian animals,

you may as well skip right over this post. ;)

if I had to choose a "favorite thing" from our trip to Australia,

I think it would have to be Caversham Wildlife Park.

we spent most of the day there, and it was so neat to be able

to get "up close & personal" with some awesome animals.

{koalas! we got to pet them & everything!}

oh, and the kangaroos. totally amazing.

they had a huge enclosure where you could go in & walk around;

all the kangaroos were chilling out in the shade,

you could go right up & pet them.

I might have been freaking out a little about how cool it was! ;)

we saw quite a few beautiful birds...

a wombat {such a strange animal!}, funky lizards, dingo...

oh, and finally... a couple of baby kangaroos, about 6/7 months old!

seriously, they were just the most adorable little things;

I wanted to sneak one home in my suitcase. :D

do you have a favorite Aussie animal?

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I'll be sharing at least one more post about Australia,

but I want to share some SNAP! posts first...

so this edition of {petunia travels} will be continued a little later.

thanks for reading!

petunia travels // Perth + King's Park

to see the first part of our trip, Singapore, click here.

I'm so excited to be sharing these pictures from our time in Australia with you!

We visited Perth, West Australia, and it was so beautiful there.

Even the weather was perfect for walking everywhere we went!

{just a note: all of our pictures are from our iPhones,

and I didn't edit any of them beyond resizing them for the blog}

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our plane landed in Australia pretty late & we were exhausted,

so we slept in and headed out for "breakfast" at lunch time. ;)

coffee is always a priority for us, so we went to a cafe-style restaurant

called Dome - it ended up being our favorite place for food while we were there!

pretty much every restaurant in Perth had "famous" fish & chips,

so the hubby decided to have some for lunch - I think he ended up having it

(at different restaurants) like 5 times while we were there!

{first kangaroo sighting, ha!}

after breakfast/lunch, we went off into the city to do a little exploring.

I had heard that King's Park was beautiful, so we started that way first.

there was a kind of a short cut through to the park called Jacob's Ladder,

and we figured the stairs couldn't be *that* bad...

well, there were about 1300 stairs.

we were pretty exhausted by the time we got to the top!

the view was gorgeous, but we ended up just laying in the grass

for a while to recover before walking through King's Park. ;)

{the grass in Perth was gorgeous; almost like a golf course!}

{views of the city}

we really enjoyed the park & seeing the whole city spread out below us.

I feel like it was a good start to getting acquainted with Perth.

to be continued...

petunia travels // singapore

this is the first of a little series I'm doing about our recent travels;

hope you enjoy!

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my husband & I recently traveled far around the world,

first to Singapore & then to Perth, Australia.

this was a business trip for him, but I got to go along,

& we did have time to do some fun things. :)

this was my first time traveling internationally,

really the first time I've flown anywhere,

& it was an adventure!

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Singapore was a really neat city,

very clean, very modern and very HOT.

(think 90* with 90% humidity!)

we stayed at the Marina Bay Sands

(which is where the hubby's convention was),

which was very neat. very fancy, which isn't really my thing,

but a cool place.

in our free time,

we tried all sorts of Asian foods, hung out at the pool,

visited the Art of the Brick exhibit at the ArtsScience museum,

and explored the hotel/mall.

unfortunately, something we ate made me sick,

so I ended up in bed most of the time we were in Singapore. :(

otherwise we would have gone out into the city to explore more.

it was still enjoyable, doing the things we did do.

after our time in Singapore, 

we headed off to Australia!

to be continued...