Baby Koalas!

[lizzie_and_ari]

Last winter, it was cold and wet and snowing and I trudged up Niddry Street again and again to greet yet another ungrateful tour group who did not understand that by 'I'm cold and hungry and would like to go to the pub' I did not mean 'I'm full of beans and incredibly funny'. But I had to buy a ticket to the other side of the world and so I had to focus on the money. So, on the back of my Auld Reekie name badge (which said 'Amanda') I wrote: Baby Koalas.

I love koalas. I have a stuffed toy named Koaly, which I have had since I was 3. Yet had never seen one in the flesh. When in Rockhampton, we visited the botanics and I saw three, and was content. However, the aim, the Mecca, the Reason I Hat Baby Koalas Written On My Name Badge, was the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, just outside Brisbane. Over 130 koalas of all types and sizes, and the only place in the world where it is legal to hold one (due to their stringent policies and number of koalas - each one gets held for about half an hour every 2 weeks) and be photographed.

Week after week we've planned to go. There's a boat which cruises you down the river to the sanctuary. Week after week we have been unable. Working. Busy. Skint. Family. Etc. BUt this week was the week. We went. And it was good.

It was amazing! There were joey koalas so small that they were in their own special bit with just theit mum and if you looked really really hard you could see this one joey climbing out of his mother's pouch and onto her back before deciding the world was a bit too scary just yet. Anf of course, I had my photo taken with a lovely young girl koala called Sprite:


(incidentally that top is green yet looks blue on that photo - or does on this PC)

There was also a bird who said hello to us as we approached and goodbye as we left again. That was cool and very, very, surreal.

Hmmm. I will die happy.

Lizziex

Comments

Lovely photo

[ashleyfrieze.livejournal.com]

The top is definitely blue on my screen too.

Good photo and a happy end to the story which started on one of my favourite streets in Edinburgh (favourite for its positive associations with good friends such as yourself).

Just one minor thing. I don't know if you noticed, but that Koala is sexually harrassing you!?

A

Re: Lovely photo

[lizzie-and-ari.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the sanctuary lady had to help me out cos she (koala) was trying to remove my top.

Lesbian koalas, eh?

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, was thinking along the same lines with the molesting lesbian koala but it looks so cute!!!! I'm so glad you got your baby koala time. Its a very important thing in life and has cheered me up considerably - just found out I've got shingles (which explains why I've been feeling shit for ages) but I still have the lovely pus-filled blister bit to come. great. But have been given a week off work as I might be infectuous to old people so muchos laziness is beckoning. Yay! Would tommorrow or Friday be a good evening to call? I can call at midday my time so that we can have a nice long chat in early evening your time.

Love you both lots,
Naomi
xxx

[lizzie-and-ari.livejournal.com]

Yes! Midday your time would be nine our time so a tad too early... half past or one o'clock? Or we could call you?

I hope you're ok. Shingles is bad. We are worried.

We love you!


Lizzie (and Ari) xxxxxxxxxx

[missrebeccaa.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you got the beautiful things, Lizzie. You deserve all the koalas in the world plus the equivalent number of tops for the lesbian ones to tear through.

Love,
Becky.

[lizzie-and-ari.livejournal.com]

I think it's a splendid photo, and shows off Lizzie's breasts beautifully. Who could blame the koala?

Ari.xxx

[(Anonymous)]

Awwww, very very cute. I want a pet koala how much do they retail at?

I won £20 with charmers on the cluedo game the other night, lizzie be proud of me.

You are looking very slim lizzie I think Ari needs to do more cooking and fatten you up. (but very pretty too)

georgie x