Werribee Zoo

Today we ventured off to Werribee Zoo to celebrate my Mum's birthday (Happy Birthday Mummsie!) and to watch my younger sister's boyfriend perform. He is a dancer with the Rhythm of Africa twilight shows the zoo was running over summer.



The day started with us setting up camp on the grass and then heading off for a safari bus tour. This was fun! The kids loved seeing all the different types of animals up close. Fraser found it all too exhausting and had a quick nap on Daddy.







After the safari we had a walk around the zoo looking at the animals we didn't see on the safari. The lions were our favourite and we spent a long time watching them - so majestic!






The twilight shows started and it was good to see some of Raelene's friends perform. Her boyfriend was amazing - as were all of the dancers and drummers. Mum got right into it and was bopping away with them - it was hard not to actually. After the last set Shabba (Raelene's boyfriend) did a bit of a dance workshop and got all the crowd up to dance. It was awesome - the place went off! There were hundreds of people there all getting into it. Alex adores Shabba so went up to him and started dancing with him. The kids loved it.







Bella and Alex got their faces painted and looked the part :) Me and Alex aslo got a braid put in our hair.










It was quite a hot day which made for a lovely evening. We took our picnic dinner and made such a good night of it all. The band sang happy birthday to Mum and got her up on the stage.... helps that she is the future mother-in-law of the star of the show!!

Lots more photos of the day can be seen HERE.