First Impressions - Airport and Day 1

It all started when I witnessed with my very own eyes, the gigantic plane we would be riding for about fifteen hours. We would be doing all of this to set our feet on the magical place known as Australia. The flight was quite long and quite cramped. However, I managed to deal with the struggles of feeling that your legs would fall off. After the extremely long flight, we landed­ in the great Melbourne, Australia. After we went through all of baggage claim and customs, we boarded our private bus. There, we met our new travel instructor, Amanda. After we were given a basic introduction, we were off to the Moonlit Sanctuary. There we saw all kinds of animals including the famous kangaroos, a koala, a wombat, wallabies, and much more. We even went on a wallaby walk where we fed wallabies from our own hands! Next, we learned all about frogs and how they are very vulnerable to changes in our environment. We also learned that without frogs, our ecosystems would suffer. We even learned that the Egyptians used frogs as pregnancy tests. Soon after, we went to go on a walk to see animals when they are most active… at night. The night walk was very exciting because we had no idea where we were walking, and there were puddles everywhere. After we came back from the night walk, we were all very tired and ready to go to our hotel, Hotel Ibis. I roomed with all of the girls from my school. We each had our own beds and we started to drift off into sleep. We woke the next morning at around 5:30. We started to get ready and we went down to the buffet breakfast bar together. When we were done enjoying our delicious breakfast, we loaded up into the bus and we were off to the next location… the Otway Fly.