Saturday Jan 26th

This morning was great, didn’t have to leave until 10AM, whoo, hoo! Before we left Travis and Erick made the entire boy’s breakfast, some great bacon and eggs. Not sure what the girls did before the bus left as I am a boy and the girls were sleeping in a different building which I wasn’t in.

We all boarded the bus and were excited to get going, our destination Healesville Wildlife Park, here we would be able to see most of the wildlife that can been seen around Australia. We really enjoyed our time there, we got to see Koala’s, Kangaroo’s, Wombat’s, etc. really close up. We all had a chance to feed the Kangaroo’s and give them a stroke, Dusty was enjoying this moment until the Roo got to the end of the food and decided to see what the Captain’s finger tasted like, fortunately no blood was drawn, he just gave a nasty nip. Now off to Waverley Temple Corps for the concert.

Sound check was quick and we probably could have done with a bit more time but that wasn’t an option, so we got changed and got ready to greet the audience as they arrived. The audience was a different demographic from the last concert we did. We had a real mix of folks of all ages from 6 months to 90. The leaders of the Melbourne Staff Band and Songsters attended, plus our newest fan General Burrows. The crowd wasn’t as enthusiastic as the crowd in NZ but we knew from their faces that we touched their souls and encouraged their spirits. As people were leaving they thanked us for coming and our ministry to them. Back to the conference center, we’ve got a long day of travel in front of us; we’ll see how much sleep we get.