Last week, my father and I went to Zibo in Shandong to eat Zibo barbecue (烧烤). Recently, the local (当地的) food is getting popular, people around the country go there to try (尝试) it.

At 5 p.m., we arrived at the restaurant. Luckily, it was sunny that day. There are some differences between Zibo’s barbecue and the ones in other cities. Zibo’s barbecue restaurants have a small grill (烤架) on each table. People need to cook on the grill by themselves. When the food is ready (准备好的), you put it onto a small pancake, and then add (添加) scallions (葱) and sauce (酱料) before eating.

People in the restaurant didn’t know each other before. But we just talked naturally. The boss of the restaurant even (甚至) danced. Some local people put off (推迟) their orders when they heard there weren’t enough seats (座位). They wanted people from other places to have the chance (机会) to try the food.

I kept thinking about why Zibo got popular. Is it the food, or the warmhearted (热心的) people?

Recently I had a trip to Sydney with my parents. We visited the Wildlife Park.

The Wildlife Park has lots of different animals. Some can only be found there. There are more than 500 animals there, including kangaroos, koalas and crocodiles(鳄鱼). They are kept in their natural environment. ____▲____ In zoos, most of the animals are in cages(笼子).

We first spent some time with the kangaroos. We could touch and feed them. It was very exciting to be so close to them. Koalas looked very lovely. Although we couldn’t touch koalas, I could take a photo with one. It was a wonderful souvenir(纪念品) of my holiday in Sydney.

The Wildlife Park has plenty of freshwater and saltwater crocodiles. Some of them are very big and scary with huge teeth! I did not want to get too close to them.

There was also a bird show. The keepers showed us different kinds of birds. I saw an old parrot(鹦鹉). It could “talk” and made a great impression on me.

I enjoyed the trip very much. There was so much to see.