40th Wedding Anniversary and my birthday - extremely photo heavy

 After the 2 previous weeks we were looking forward to a few days away together. We had looked forward to this trip for nearly one year. Yes, that’s how long it was booked for.

We set out early as it was a 6 hour drive to Canberra from my brothers. I know some of you won’t believe it but I did see the sun rise.

3 nights away to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary and my birthday. We were drained when we got there but it was worth it.

As this was our anniversary our daughter arranged for there to be a bottle of Moët chilled in the room to greet us. Yummy.

Jamala had also put a little soft toy tiger on our bed as a gift.

Our first night was in a giraffe treehouse and we got to feed them.

Our 2nd night was with the lions

And the 3rd night was with the tigers. 

This was my birthday and there was another toy tiger on my bed.

The tigers from our room

The food was amazing.

Vegetarian canapés 

Big breakfast

Birthday lemon meringue

Mixed canapés

Breakfast, avo, eggs, bruschetta, mushrooms

Anniversary pavlova

Rack of lamb

Happy anniversary rich chocolate dome with berry sorbet

Steak, lobster and veg.

My pork dinner

Pasta carbonara lunch

Our table setting for lunch

Thai beef salad

Lunch time next to the hyenas

The animals were fascinating. 

The view of the giraffes from the other side of our room.

A funny monkey

Our setting at dinner

One side of the giraffe house.

The hyenas. I’m not a fan of them.

This fish was having a rest. I have never seen this before.

The white lions being fed next to the restaurant. They weren’t in there for long as they headed on to their compound.

The deer outside our room

The lioness coming up to the window of or room

The sun bear waiting for a feed

The rhino was having a scratch

These ostrich are so big.

These monkeys were so fun to watch. I have some videos but haven’t worked out how to put them into a post.

The sun bear having a rest way up high.

We even got to feed the meerkats.

I patted a rhino

A corn snake

And a blue tongue lizard. We had one as a pet when I was a kid.

There was so much to look at and we really enjoyed our time there.

Our time has come to an end and it was time to leave and head back to my brothers (6 hours). 

Then home (another 5 hours).

We arrived home and straight to bed, exhausted. 

We ended up with covid and we’re bed ridden for 11 days. 

I managed to go back to work but it was very hard. Coming home each night with no energy, not eating properly and so drained. Mentally, physically and emotionally. 

We are still having daily updates about my MIL. She is stable and on morphine. No improvement. Still a waiting game. So, needless to say, the month of February and March has been very eventful. Unfortunately, either side of our once looked forward to trip was not so good.it meant our feelings weren’t quite in the right place but we know we have celebrated a special time together.

Now to focus on healing.