Friday 14 September 2007
Mid-semester "Holiday"
It is Spring here and that means Spring Break! Well, as they refer to it, mid-semester "holiday" :) Richie and I are leaving Saturday, September 15th and returning Monday, October 1st. (Yes, that is a really long time!) We are traveling down the East Coast of Australia and stopping at several cities along the way to do some awesome things, including skydiving! I can't wait to tell you more about our adventures when we return! There will probably be heaps of photos, too! I hope everyone is doing well. Take care :-D
Saturday 8 September 2007
Random News
Did you know?? - The construction of the Opera House began in 1959.
- It took until 1973 to finish building it and for it to finally open.
- It cost about $100 million!
- The final show of Australian Idol takes place inside!
Justin & I:
Check this out!
We rearranged out living room from the front of the apartment to the back for more space and a cozier feel: (view entering from the left side)
Check this out!
We rearranged out living room from the front of the apartment to the back for more space and a cozier feel: (view entering from the left side)
(from the right side)
Have you heard??
*For the past two weeks it seems like all I have heard about on the news is how the equine influenza (EI) has spread through Aussie's racehorse population....
*No worries though! Today the horses are back to the tracks!
They're everywhere!!
That is, students in uniforms... from primary to secondary school grades, any person wearing a backpack (not at my uni) has been in a uniform. These small children on a field trip to the Queen Victoria Building have been my favorite so far! I mean, just look at their hats!
Friday 7 September 2007
Backtracking
Heaps of things have happened since I last wrote....
The biggest news is that Justin came to visit! It was really awesome to have company from home here! Him and his friend, Saim, came from August 21st (a Tuesday) until the 31st (the following Friday). Upon arrival I would not allow for any sleeping -after all they had to adjust timezones and had to do so quickly to allow for maximum site seeing. To start off, Richie and I took them to Wildlife World in Darling Harbor. There we observed:
a variety of Aussie's insects
including this nasty thing:
,
reptiles (including my favorite, the frilled neck lizard:
& the largest of the lizards down under,
the Perentie, which is also the 3rd largest lizard in the world), lots of wallabies & koalas, the Cassowary, (the third largest flightless bird & Aussie's largest land animal) and much more. That night we stayed in Darling Harbor for dinner, and ate at a place called Blue Fish. It was located right next to the water, with a spectacular view of the city lights.
We spent the next day walking around the Queen Victoria Building and
going up into Sydney's Sky Tower
. It was really to watch the boats cruise around from above and to see how far the city extended. That day Justin and Saim also surprised us with a dart board apartment-warming-gift. We definitely had fun with it while they were here & it has been getting a lot of use since!
My favorite day, while they were here, was when we went on an adventure tour of The Eldest Cave, the oldest cave of the Jenolan Caves in the Blue Mountains. To prepare, we had to gear up in jumpsuits and helmets with torches (aka flashlights). Then each of us got to repel down to the opening of the cave
. Once in, it was no walk through of the cave! It took us about two hours and we had two guides who took us through holes I didn't imagine I could fit through! Sometimes we had to go head first with darkness ahead! Sometimes we went feet first and had to hope we would put our foot down in the right place, and sometimes we crawled through on our side surrounded by cave walls only inches away from our sides... like this picture!>
Here I am about to go down a hole and then coming through it>
The biggest news is that Justin came to visit! It was really awesome to have company from home here! Him and his friend, Saim, came from August 21st (a Tuesday) until the 31st (the following Friday). Upon arrival I would not allow for any sleeping -after all they had to adjust timezones and had to do so quickly to allow for maximum site seeing. To start off, Richie and I took them to Wildlife World in Darling Harbor. There we observed:
a variety of Aussie's insects
including this nasty thing:
,reptiles (including my favorite, the frilled neck lizard:
& the largest of the lizards down under,
the Perentie, which is also the 3rd largest lizard in the world), lots of wallabies & koalas, the Cassowary, (the third largest flightless bird & Aussie's largest land animal) and much more. That night we stayed in Darling Harbor for dinner, and ate at a place called Blue Fish. It was located right next to the water, with a spectacular view of the city lights.We spent the next day walking around the Queen Victoria Building and
going up into Sydney's Sky Tower
. It was really to watch the boats cruise around from above and to see how far the city extended. That day Justin and Saim also surprised us with a dart board apartment-warming-gift. We definitely had fun with it while they were here & it has been getting a lot of use since!My favorite day, while they were here, was when we went on an adventure tour of The Eldest Cave, the oldest cave of the Jenolan Caves in the Blue Mountains. To prepare, we had to gear up in jumpsuits and helmets with torches (aka flashlights). Then each of us got to repel down to the opening of the cave
. Once in, it was no walk through of the cave! It took us about two hours and we had two guides who took us through holes I didn't imagine I could fit through! Sometimes we had to go head first with darkness ahead! Sometimes we went feet first and had to hope we would put our foot down in the right place, and sometimes we crawled through on our side surrounded by cave walls only inches away from our sides... like this picture!>
Here I am about to go down a hole and then coming through it>
The four of us about half way through 
and then feeling like we mastered the cave
by the end!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)