Back in the first week of November, we were lucky enough to get to go to
Australia! We went with all of the
regionals at Platinum. I know you think all we ever do is travel and play, and you are right, but at least we feel very grateful for it!
It was a long plane ride, but not as bad as I thought. Maybe I am only saying that because it has been a little while though. We went to Cairns, which is the northeast area of
Australia. We choose that area because we wanted to scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef. It is more of a
rain forest than how you typically picture
Australia to be. It was beautiful! I have waited to post because we had other people take most of our pictures for us, but I still haven't got them from them, so I will just show a few we took with our own camera, and maybe post the better ones later.
The view from the apartment we stayed in.
We spent a day learning about the
Aboriginal culture. They did some amazing dances and songs on the
didgeridoo. It was a lot of fun!
Matt spent the majority of his time there
harassing the wildlife! You wouldn't believe how good he is at catching animals. This is a tree frog that kept hanging out by one of our windows. Matt couldn't reach him because it was up so high. He put together a little contraption that involves a broom, some part of the
vacuum, one of my hair ties, and a cup from the kitchen.
Don't ask. I'm not sure why, but I guess it is some way of proving what a man you are by letting crabs hang from your ears.
And more frogs...these pictures are only a few of the animals he chased around. Really, I wasn't kidding when I said the majority of the trip. He was in heaven!
Feeding a kangaroo! There were wallaby's all over where we stayed. The boys were convinced they could catch one, but they were dreaming! Those things are fast!
Like I said, these are the only pictures we have right now, but it was an incredible trip. Scuba diving was amazing other than the fact that I spent the whole day puking. The boat ride out to the reef made me really sick, but of course I still had to dive...we were at the Great Barrier Reef! You would be surprised, puking under water isn't as hard as you would think. It really was beautiful even if I did feel miserable!
We also took a canopy tour over the jungle, I got to hold a koala bear, Ate a lot of weird fruit and yummy chocolate, hiked up to some waterfalls and swam in big pools of water (probably my favorite part), and built some pretty cool sand sculptures. Anyway, more pictures later.
Thanks to Platinum for the trip, and to Matt's sister, Britney and her husband, Jeff. They watched our kids for us the whole time we were gone, which was not an easy task I'm sure!
Christmas morning in their new jammies!
Santa brought Savannah her highly anticipated "Pinkie Pie" (a big My Little Pony). Maxwell was most excited about his books! He just liked ripping the wrapping paper!
It was pretty cold, but we did brave the weather a few times to play in the snow. Savannah seems to never get cold. She can play in the snow all day.
Max is not a fan of his snow clothes!
We pulled the kids all over town in the sled just like this. Max fell asleep about 1 minute into it and slept the entire time. I couldn't believe it. Matt would pull them to the top of a little hill and send them down. Savannah would laugh and want to go again, and Max just slept through the whole thing. I guess he was a little too cozy!
