So before all the chaos (i.e. fire) broke out we were doing a little viewing of the country.
We left early Monday morning and headed for Mt. Baw Baw for some snow action. We traveled for the duration of the trip with Josh and Lucila Feldman, friends from church. At Mt. Baw Baw we met up with other church families, including the Blackwoods. We were at Mt. Baw Baw until late Tuesday night. Late Tuesday night we packed up and headed for the Blue Mountains where we were going to meet up with some of Lucila's relatives. We stayed in Lucila's grandparent's home there. The Blue Mountains reminded Brandon a little of the Grand Canyon. Not so big or dry but I guess if you used your imagination you might see the GC. I wouldn't know because I have never been to the GC. The mountains are called the "Blue Mountains" due to the bluish haze that surrounds them. They look blue because of all the eucalyptus trees that have a blue color to them.
After the Blue Mountains we drove Thursday to Sydney. About a 3-4 hour trip. Brandon, Jolene, and I stayed with Lucila's brother, Derek. He and his wife are renting part of the house from friends. Derek and Catherine are the ones who own the house we are living in right now. They are planning on moving to Geelong in about a year or so.
So we traveled around Sydney Thursday and Part of Friday. Friday afternoon we left Sydney and took the ferry to our friend's the Richardson's who live in Mainly. Manly is a suburb of Sydney, a very beautiful one at that. We stayed with the Richardsons until Sunday afternoon. We left Manly around 4pm Sunday and arrived back in Geelong at about 2am, where we stayed with Josh and Lucila due to the lack of housing we had upon returning. If you don't know what I am talking about see the previous posts.
So anyway, the trip was a lot of fun! We saw so much in a week it is unbelievable. We are thankful that Jolene held up through it all as well. There was only one day that she really exploded. I had to wrestle with her in the car, but she finally calmed down enough to take a nap. What a difference sleep makes!
Here are all the pics of the trip, enjoy!
We will have house pics up soon!
Meg
p.s. There are also some pics of Jolene at home and us at a 21st B-day party.
5 comments:
aww the pic are soo cute! :) well it least you had a nice time, even if it wasn't so nice when you got back.
I have a friend who just went to Sydney on Saturday. She say's the beaches there are great! IT was really fun going to Mr. Baw-Baw with you guys.
Well i just left a sorta long comment on your post below. Glad you have internet up and running again. Now i can read your lovely updates. I really need to update. Its like us the first few weeks we were here we didn't have internt, and when we finally got it, we were very excited!
Hope everythings going alright. How are you and the baby? :) Doing well i hope. See ya in two weeks.
Tell Allen he better be behaving himself. :)
God bless
The swastika never stood for "communism". It stood for fascism, genius. I enjoyed the pictures, wildly erroneous captions aside.
Also, Megan is a fat pig. got a'noth'r bun in t'oven, eh there kids? heh heh.
Sorry apparently pregnancy lead to a mental lapse in the wife as well. She thought she wrote "nazi-ism" or something.
Thanks for complementing her amazing figure, though. Gayb. Speaking of fat pigs, has your west-coast cooking reduced your rotund-ness yet?
-b-
I enjoyed looking at the photos! You had some amazing weather. I can't believe how much Jolene is changing!
It says "anonymous", so there is no way you could possibly know that was m--er, this "Gayb" chap who I've never heard of before in my life (but he sounds exceptionally awesome at everything, I wish I knew him).
And yes, I look good. what?
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