Taronga Zoo and Max Brenner's

Woke up 6.30 to see Ellie stood up in cot took abit for her to go back to sleep got in bed with me and then woke up 9ish. We were first up Sharon and Ben got up 9.30 had breakfast and didn't end up leaving til 11ish. Caught train at 11.22 had 2/3 minutes to get on train from central to Circular quay which luckily we made. Got ferry to Taronga zoo at 12.15 and then bus to top to get our tickets for entrance into zoo was hoping Ellie would fall asleep, but no success. First stop Australia aviary as Ellie likes birds at the moment, then Australian nightlife and luckily seemed to see a few animals even the Bilby. Then to see the kangaroos, wallabies and emus which you could walk though and saw a few kangaroos. We walked past koala encounter but only saw one all the rest must be hiding, but hopefully see more later. Luckily the platypus wasn't hiding and looked so cute but looked very lonely as looked to be only one. All off this is part of the Australian walkabout then for another walk though where saw echidna which Ellie liked. Then to the concert lawns to have our picnic but unfortunately no cafe as currently refurbishing. After our picnic was to see the seals, wetland aviary and rainforest trail was going to watch birdshow but didn't think Ellie would sit still. So instead went to look at the big cats trail as I my favourite animals are tigers, elephants and giraffes as I just find them fascinating. Obviously we had to have sone silly pictures taken so had one with eagle and with the gorillas. It was then to listen to the koala talk and found out some new things like there can jump between trees. Was supposedly 4 koalas in the enclosure but only actually saw 3, as 2 were asleep. Walk past alligator on route to exit and look round the gift shop but didn't buy anything. Got the sky safari cable car down to the bottom which always provides a lovely view off Sydney and made the ferry at 4pm. Once off straight to Max Brenner which is creating a new chocolate experience worldwide. Tried to convince them to have a pizza but shared a tutti frutti waffle was good and I had a coconut hot chocolate was nice but very sweet. Ellie was not that keen on the waffle so ended up having to distract her with pringles. Catch train from Wynyard but just missed train so had to wait 30 minutes for next one. Home 6ish let Ellie  play for abit then bed 7.30 and I made tea chicken satay went down well. Watch TV was film on 'Birdcage' which was very funny but couldn't believe Sharon and Ben not seen before, bed 11.30.