Australia Zoo & The Gold Coast

Mum and Dad (Nana and Opa Schopf) flew into the Gold Coast to meet us for a week or so. It was great to catch up with them and it was a nice change to be staying in a beautiful apartment overlooking the coast.

Our first stop was a visit to Australia Zoo. We think it is the best zoo we have seen in Australia. The animal shows were fantastic and there were heaps of hands on interactions with the animals.

One of the many opportunities to meet the animals.

We even visited Africa for a while!

We also visited a few of the theme parks. Sea world was a bit of fun. Mum and Dad also surprised us a little and went on the flume ride with the two big girls!

Checking out the penguins.

Hangin' out with Henry the baby polar bear!

The Flume Ride ... look at those faces!

We also explored Mt Tamborine.

A selfie in the rain forest.

Dad on the SkyWalk

On the last day we visited Surfers Paradise and the Ripley's - Believe It Or Not museum. 

Nana and Pippa with surfy Santa.

Fiona just disgraced herself !!!

We had a fantastic time with Mum and Dad, the girls loved seeing Nana and Opa and were sad to see them go.