DARLING DOWNS ZOO

During the recent school holidays, Rick was fortunate enough to be having the weekends off, so we decided to make the most of those weekends to go out for lots of drives in the country. We felt that we owed it to the kids because we were both working during the week and they had to stay at home for most of the time with whichever parent wasn't working.

On the first weekend, we decided to take them out to see the Darling Downs Zoo which is slightly south of Toowoomba.

It is only a small zoo, and due to the miserable and unpredictable weather, we had been right around it in less than an hour. It was a really cold day, so it was nice to get back inside the car to have some lunch (breadrolls I had made before leaving home) and a nice warm cup of coffee.

After that, we kept on driving, and just another 40km up the road, we found ourselves in Warwick, so we stopped there for about an hour or so and had a wander through the local shopping centre (the only place still open after midday on a Saturday) and Rick and I even bought ourselves a new pair of shoes each at the local Williams shoe shop.

We stopped at the Big Orange in Gatton on the way home and stocked up on fresh fruit and veges for the week. It was still mid-afternoon so we stopped in Laidley for a look at some new housing estates that we had heard about. What a beautiful little country town. We also saw some friends (Tyler's school friend from last year) who moved out there late last year, so we stopped and had a cup of coffee with them and the kids could catch up and play too.

WHAT A GREAT DAY OUT!!!!