Rise & shine to the lovely weather on Day 7, the last day of our self drive holiday before we head back to Sydney. We had breakfast in our hotel room, a room so pretty mommy will surely miss. Did our checking out and decided to spend some time at the outdoor area of our hotel. But before that, daddy snapped some photos of the hotel...
The billiard room, which daddy came by last night, wanting to have a few rounds but which unfortunately was occupied
The tennis courts
The path leading to the gymnasium.. absolutely loving the orange autumn trees & the blue blue skies..
Super pretty..
The gymnasium.. a pity we didn't have time to use any of the facilities.. thats why we really must come back & spend a week here to recharge
Preeeettyy......
Wayne 'cheesing' with daddy!
Love Wayne's outfit for the day...cute! Wayne loved playing with the stone covered floor, kicking the stones, picking & throwing them around.
Mommy & my little precious boy at the hotel garden..
The swimming pool with the awesome view..
Enjoying the lawn
Us =)
Wayne posing by the car.. following after mommy...
& again with daddy...
So after spending an hour by the garden, we were finally ready to say bye to this beautiful hotel and proceeded to explore the other parts of Blue Mountains. We drove to Leura Village, enjoying the pretty autumn trees lining the roads. Then visited the Leura Cascades to view the waterfall and took a short hike.
We also stopped at look out points, which gave us some pretty fantastic views of the mountain.. like this... breathtaking. Look at how pretty the clouds were as well.
The kind of view we got while driving...
And the cool weather made driving even more enjoyable.. and so we continued our journey down the mountains, back to Sydney city.
Enroute to Sydney, we stopped by Featherdale Wildlife Park.. which was quite an experience as here, the kangaroos were free to roam around.... 
Mommy & Wayne at the entrance... all ready to say hello the Roos!
Initially excited to explore the park, once inside mommy got real STRESSED! Cos the kangaroos were really free to wander around, able to come real close to you! While the kids there seem to be really happy being up close to the animals, mommy was scared!!! Haha... The kangaroos were hopping right past us, and some of them were really big. And there were those big ostrich like birds which flew really fast around us. Stressed stressed. Almost gave mommy a heart attack.
Mommy kept looking right and looking left, in case any of the animals took a liking to mommy & cute Wayne & came too close to us. Wayne on the other hand, was quite oblivious to the stress mommy was facing, going Roo Roo Roo each time he saw a kangaroo hop by.
The koalas were much cuter and not as scary, perhaps because they couldn't move around that much... they actually looked pretty cute & cuddly! Mommy of course wasn't brave enough to cuddle the koala, but managed some photos pretty up close with them.
Wayne got a kick out of being in the same color as the koala.. each time we said Wayne Wayne is in grey, same as the koala, he'd go laughing away... funny boy.
After seeing the roos and koalas & taking many photos, mommy decided that was enough stress for the day & so we had our lunch and quickly headed back to the car to continue our journey. Stress as mommy was, it was still quite a nice experience, especially for animal lovers out there.
Half and hour later, we were back to the blue skies of Sydney city!
Nice view of the Sydney bridge.
City view
And as we approached the city centre, daddy got a little sentimental at the thought of returning this car which has served us so well the past 4 days....
And that ended our self drive bit of our holiday, which we enjoyed very much. Thanks to the car, we travelled from place to place comfortably, without too much hassle of carrying our luggages around.
We checked in at our hotel for the next two nights, Radisson Hotel, which again was really nice and conveniently located, just 5 minutes from Sydney Harbour. This hotel was located at the other end of the city from where Sheraton was, purposely chosen, so that we could explore this side of the city. We then returned our car, went for dinner and then back to our hotel, looking forward to the next day of fun!!!
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