Dear diary

Wednesday 1st of January 2020

Dear Diary,

Happy New Year. Today Mum, Luke and I went to Orana park.  First we saw the Siamang Gibbon they were running and jumping across the ropes.  Then we saw the painted dogs two of the Keepers came along and were throwing pieces of meat as they were trying to look at one of the dogs legs.  Once we finished looking at the painted dogs we saw the Orangutans they were still sleepy, but the Gorilla's weren't they were eating there breakfast. 

We saw other animals and moved to my favourite animal the Giraffes, today I was lucky enough to feed them.  The giraffe I fed sucked up the leaves of the branch it was like playing tug of war with a giraffe.  I got to see the new giraffe that came from Australia in December.

Luke, mum and I were hungry so we sat and ate our picnic lunch.  As we were having lunch Luke started laughing because he saw a big Pukeko running round trying to get food, there was another family near us one of their children dropped there bread roll and the Pukeko sprinted and grabbed it. Then it ran with the bread roll in its mouth over the footbridge and took it to his Pukeko family in the Bison enclosure.  It was very funny Mum, Luke and I couldn't stop laughing.

Then we saw the Spider monkeys getting fed. They are so clever with how they use their tails. One of them used their tail to hang on the rope.  They were getting fed vegetables and fruit.

Then we moved to the kiwis enclosure I didn't know how big the kiwi egg was.  One of the keepers was showing us how big a kiwi egg, a hen egg and an Emu egg looks like.  We got to look at the kiwis getting fed as well.

Luke kept pestering mum about what the time was because he really wanted to watch the Tasmanian Devils get fed.  So we watched them get fed rabbit.  I didn't like that because I like rabbits.  The keepers decided to put the sprinkler on but one of the Tasmanian Devils didn't like it so it ran into one of its huts and the other Tasmanian Devil ate his part of the rabbit.  Then he attacked the bucket which the keeper had in his hand.   

Because it was so hot Mum decided to get us Ice cream's so we ate them while going back to the Orangutans and the Gorillas. They also had Ice blocks but the Gorillas had smashed there Ice block to pieces.  The Orangutans were trying to stuff bits of there bed in to there ice block.  It was extremely funny.

Then it was time to go home.  What a fun day.

When we got home I was still hot so asked Luke to put my water slide out in the back yard.  It was a great way to cool down.  I looked up and saw the orange sun I ran inside to get mum.  We didn't know what was going on but on the news tonight we learnt that it was smoke from the Australian bush fires.  It was a bit scary.