Moral the Traveling Wombat

So, the week after I got back from New Zealand I got to go to Costa Rica. So, here I am playing cards with my best friend Hoover. I don't rememeber what we played but I am sure I won.











It was quite rainy the entire time we were there. Here I am outside enjoying the rain.
















I wanted to make sure I kept in contact with my sweetie,Cherish, back home She is so very great am wonderful. I cannot think of life without her. So, I talked to her using Skype. Free internet talking. It was great.










This is what I spent most of my week doing. TV was hard to understand because they were all speaking another language. It wasn't German, I had heard that before, I think I was told it was Spanish. At least there were subtitles sometimes.

Overall it was a fun and exciting trip. I would go back, but hopefully when it was clearer so I could see more of it.

The last day in New Zealand I was at Lake Takepo. A very nice lake with beautiful mountains all around. Using forced perspective it looks like I am standing on a rock, but that rock is really a ways away. My owners are so cool like that sometimes. All in all it was a great trip.

So this is a fiord, called Milford Sound. It looked a lot like a lake with mountains all around it. Nothing to special to me. Oh well, not everything can be really cool.

Look at that me on a glacier. I spent most of the day in a bag, because it was so cold on the ice. But I did get to come out and get a picture and have a look around. I was amazed by how blue some of the ice was. Also, seeing waterfalls and green trees next to glacier. I guess that is why it is called a warm glacier. I was quite glad to be in the bag most of the day due to the cold. Arizona does have its advantages.

This is Christchurch. As you can see there is a port, and that is the Pacific Ocean there on the right. Christchurch was quite lovely from this vantage point. Mountains, snow, fields, water, what more could a wombat want. I am currently on top of a mountain and it was quite cold.

Now here I am at Huka Falls. I was expecting an actual waterfall like Yosemite Falls, but it was more like a raging river. This water flow is the only outlet for New Zealand's largest lake, Lake Taupo. So, a lot of water needs to move through this very small area. It was pretty cool, and they also use it for hydro-electric power. Talk about smart. This pictures looks like I am ready to fall into the river, but don't worry my owner has a very tight grip on me (I made sure).







And here is the final outlet before it becomes a regular river.

The day started in the car and I was in a bag as usual. We went to Hobbiton, the place where hobbits live, and I never got to come out of the bag. I heard them say later that they forgot, and then they appologized, but still. I wanted to see all the hobbits. I have been told that I will get to be in a picture via photoshop, but we will have to wait and see.


Later, we went to a place that smelled really bad. I understand that it was sulfer gas. It sure did smell like a rotten egg. This is what I got to see. A steaming lake. It was pretty cool, but I am sure not as cool as hobbits.









Here is another picture from the same park. That is a lake in the distance that is apparently very acidic, but they still take boats out on it. That doesn't sound like a whole lot of fun to me, but I am not like a lot of people. Maybe it is becuase I am a wombat.

The last day in Australia we took a boat on the river that runs through Brisbane. It is used very heavily by commuters going to and from work, school, shopping, and more. It seems like a very good version of public transportation since the river winds through city.

This day was really exciting. I found out along the way that we were going to The Australia Zoo. I knew it was a very nice zoo that was run by the crocodile hunter and his family (his passing is quite sad, he did so much for animals). Well, I had a feeling there would be wombats there, but buy were there ever wombats. I got to see quite a few, and they all seemed very happy. They had lots of room to run around, and they people there seem to feed them pretty well. I saw one eating sweet potatos - yum!


Then I got to take a nap with another wombat. That was quite nice as well. I mean all the excitment of being in Australia, at The Australia Zoo, and being near so many other wombats - I needed a nap.









Then we both woke up and rubbed noses in a show of freiendship and then I left. I got to see a lot of other animals that day as well, and they all seemed very happy.

What a GREAT day!

I was really exicted that in May I got to go back to Australia. Apparently my owners had a wedding or something to attend. I didn't care, becuase I hadn't been home in almost 3 years. As you can see I was all ready to go here on the plane.












Once in Australia we went to a lavendar farm. I had never been to one before, and so I thought I would stop and smell the lavendar. My only concern here was that there were a lot of bees, and they seemed somewhat interested in me. I don't like bees.