Wet road trip!

It's school holidays here at the moment, I managed to have a couple of days off mid week and wanted to do something different, new, exciting with the girls.  Last week the annual Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers (info)  was on. I decided to take the girls to check it out - I've always wanted to go but never got around to it, what better excuse for a girls trip, right? I had two excited girls to go on a road trip and spend the night away... except we woke up on the day and it was raining, it had been raining in Toowoomba and surrounds for a few days.  I decided we would still go and hope the rain eased off so we could still see something. It didn't. So we went and got some wet weather gear and were determined to go and enjoy the flowers and events. It was like magic, we put the raincoats and gumboots on and the rain eased up and then stopped!
Of course the most exciting part for the girls were the puddles, 2.0 may as well not have worn her boots and coat because she was absolutely saturated! nothing a warm shower and pyjamas didn't fix.

On the way home we decided to take adventure and drive the scenic route, which took us to the Darling Downs Zoo (info)  which I have to be honest and say, I had no idea it existed! 

Lumpy and 2.0 had a great time feeding the animals, and being able to touch them. 2.0 was the perfect height to be in the firing line for the emu's so we had to be careful around them - those beaks are huge.