Australian Wildlife Encounter By: Sis Age: 8

Recently Dad, Mom, Me, Buddy, Baby Boy, and Papoose went to an Australian animal show. It was tons and tons of fun! The people who set all this up designed it to be only for the Libraries of New Hampshire, and the theme was based on Australian Animals, and so the theme was called G'day For Reading. And so along the way we got prizes as I wrote in an earlier blog entry, I told about all the prizes and ice-cream tickets, and so for a closing, today is the last day, August 9, 08, on August 4the, The Wildlife thing did a cool Animal Show! :)(Australian Animal Show!) :) We had lots and lots and lots of fun there! Here's what happened . . .

When we all got to the library, I hurried out of the car and into the building, and we went upstairs to the room where all of the Australian Animals were being showed, and there we met our cousins who also live in Boscawen :) And so we waited about 15 minutes so everybody would be there and the we got started . . . :)

There was only one man doing it, he introduced himself and then he got started ;) It was an hour long :) The first thing we saw, was an opossum and he took out a little bag and we heard a strange sound coming from the bag :) and then he took out the opossum :) It looked really cute :) And he explained that it 'flew' from tree branch to tree branch, and it was soooo cool! He said, that it could curve its body in a way that made it able to 'fly' :) And one gross part was that, we, us actually eat hundreds of bugs in our lifetime while we are sleeping because our mouths are open :( YUCK! :) (And actually he said that you can eat even more if you are like on a motorcycle and you open your mouth, the bugs fly right in . . .

The next animal he showed us was a Australian Tree frog, which the guy said it was really slimy and one girl volunteered to hold it for him, and so she did while he talked about the tree frogs which were interesting, they really are purple even though they look green!

And then the next animal that the guy showed us was a bird, the bird was called,

'The Alarm clock Of The Forest'
And it was like a siren! It kept squawking and squawking while he tried to explain it! :) Everybody laughed SO hard :) Then finally he explained that those birds are almost extinct, and they are VERY VERY rare. And so then we went on to the next animal . . . ;)

A SNAKE! I can not quite remember the name, but anyway it was very very cool! It was big and the guy said it was really really strong! Now the next animal was awesome . . .

AN AUSTRALIAN WALLABY! It was SO cool! And the guy said that it starts out the size of a piece of cooked rice, goes up to its Mother's pouch, (which, the man said, would be like us blindfolded climbing on our bellies for ten MILES! WOW! And then the Wallaby just hopped of the table and out of the room, pulling the man with him :)
Then after that he said that the mother pukes a couple times a day for the baby to get the bacteria needed to be able to eat grass . . . YUCK! And he said that if the mother started having another baby she could stop the pregnancy, and if she lost a baby, continue it and then have another baby! :) This was it and everybody LOVED the ending of the library program! ;)

By: Sis
Age: 8