Bridges, Bears, and Red, White, and Blue

Happy 4th of July

Today I went to the Taronga Zoo. We saw elephants, giraffes, and beautiful views of the city. It was a beautiful day to be able to go the zoo. Yesterday we went all over the city. We saw lots of different things. At night we went to see some live music with a couple of our newest friends.

Sea Dragons and Soap Opera stars in Sydney

We arrived in Sydney on Thursday night and are staying with a wonderful pastor and his wife until Sunday. Then we move to a different house. Yesterday our tour guides took us on a terrific tour of Sydney. We went all over the place. We have started to call ourselves Team Fam. The couple is our parents age and they never had any children. We got to see the Opera house, the Sydney Harbor Bridge and lots of other great things. We had a picnic lunch at Bondi Beach and we got Hot Chocolate from a famous man named George that is on a tv show here called Packed to the Rafters.

Moving in Melbourne

Yesterday we went into the city of Melbourne. We went on a free trolley ride around the city and walked around a bunch. We have been drinking some extra tasty coffee. Melbourne is known for their cuppa. Here is what we saw:




Today we hung out around the base and helped to make dinner (Chicken Burritos and Apple crumble.) Tonight we are going to serve lasagna, and potato salad to some people that are homeless in the city.

The Great Footy Game and Ocean Road

We sat in the 5th row...


so we were close to the action.


Who says white man can't jump?


The Melbourne Cricket Grounds (the field where they play football.)

I decided to start with start with pictures and end with pictures. I am mixing it up a little bit. Something that I have been striving for since I have been here: For someone to think that I was a local, and it happened tonight. Someone asked Lindsey and I for directions as we were walking on the street. Granted, we could not help them but that is okay because my goal was met. Pictures of Our Great Ocean Road Drive.

The Twelve Apostles are in the background. They are kind of a big deal.


Gentle Reminders along the way to stay to the left as you are driving.


The rainbow that followed us for most of our journey.


A tad-bit tired and sleepy as we started our journey but none the less ready to go.

Getting along in Geelong

We have started our Great Ocean Road trip. It was a little touch and go for a little while last night because there was ash from a volcano in Chile that canceled our original flight. After many calls to the Jetstar line we got onto a flight at 7:15am instead. Once we got to the airport we found a car and our luggage and we were on our way. We got directions off of GoogleMaps and did our best to try to follow them. After a couple of wrong turns we made it to our first hostel. Tomorrow we are going to do some shopping in the town and drive to the next stop which is Apollo Bay. The weather is a little bit chillier then in Darwin. We will not be damsels in distress though, we will press though the cold. Here are some pictures of what we did in Darwin.


The beautiful waterfall.


When we were in Darwin we went to Litchfield with some girls that we met on the plane. This is the old school car that we rode in.


This is us being really excited for our trip.



More pictures from Litchfield.