Steve's note: this misadventure was probably my favorite, but don't tell my dad that I did it. Cheer's, mate.

     I walked into the Australia Zoo, planning on causing some kind of mischief. My friend, who knows I'm a capital, was with me, and we were trying to see what crazy ideas we could come up with. I came up with a wicked idea. "What if we release all of the animals in the zoo?" I suggested. "Well, we'd have to do it when there is no one around, at the zoo I mean," my friend said. Soon, we had hatched a full fledged plan. 

1. one of us purposely climbs on a fence and falls off, getting himself into the medical station.

2. one of us causes a distraction, causing the doctor to leave the room. 

3. the person in the room searches for the keys to the animal cages. steal the keys.

4. leave the room while the doctor is out

5. come back at night, break into the zoo, and release all of the animals.

6. return keys, and run away, never being noticed.

     We decided to wait till it was close to closing time before we put our plan into action. My friend climbed the fence overlooking the crocodile pit, and fell off. His knee was scraped open, as well as his elbows. I yelled out, " We need medical attention, STAT!!" 

      A doctor quickly ran over and hauled my friend to the medical sation. I waited outside while they went in to treat my friend's injuries. Then I saw my chance. Walking right in front of me was a man carrying a large bundle of helium ballons. I ran up and grabbed the ballons from the man. "HEY! You gonna pay for those?" he yelled after me. "Nope, sorry mate," I called back.

     The doctor had run out and gave chase, with the baloon man tailing behind. Just as they were about to catch me, I let go of the baloons, and then dashed away. 

I retraced my steps back to the doctor's station and found my friend dangling keys from his finger. "Got 'em, mate," he said, a huge grin on his face. "Great, let's get out of here," I said. We left, and no one gave us a second look.

~~ Time SKIP ~~

We returned to the zoo and put our plan into action. We went to each of the cages in turn and opened them. We made extra sure that the large carnivores were well away from the opening and then opened the cages. Soon all of the cages had been opened. We returned the keys and dashe doff into the night. 

The next morning, it was all over the news. "Animals in the Australia Zoo were let out of their cages by a mysterious suspect," the news reporter said. My dad stopped eating, his spoon halfway to his mouth. "Crikey, this is crazy," he exclaimed, then put down his spoon. " I've got to help them." He then ran out the door. "Hold down the fort, Canberra!" he called to me. I just smirked.