Ok here is a really quick summation of what we've done over the last week. Jeff, Lindsey, and Michelle arrived Saturday, we walked them around Sydney to see the Opera House, the RBG as well as the Bridge. Sunday was my Birthday and we went out to this great pizza place. Monday I worked and Kent took them to the Sydney Aquarium, after work i ran home finished packing and we flew to Cairns. In Cairns we eventually found this great hostel/hotel called the Northern Treehouse. Great room and atmosphere. We stayed in Cairns for 4 nights, we went on an all day Scuba Dive (swam with a shark), laid out on the beach, visited the shops, drank, and slept. Awesome time. We rented a station wagon and headed north to Cow Bay near Cape Tribulation in the Daintree Rain forest. The drive was spectacular, well from what i could see, the curves were so tight and on a cliff that i spent most of the time focusing on the road while everyone else appreciated the view. That was an interesting experience, driving for the first time on the wrong side of the road in a large wide station wagon on an extremely dangerous road. Once we arrived in Cow Bay we went on a Daintree River Tour where you spot Crocs, that was a lot of fun and our captain was the stereotypical aussie. We were the last tour out and we got the boat to ourselves. The next morning Kent and I woke up super early to go on a ocean kayaking trip where we kayaked along the coast line while the sun rose to a private beach, where we were served breakfast and snorkeled off shore at the reef near by. Perfect way to start the day! We made the trip back to our hostel (giant elevated tarp tents in the rain forest), picked up Lindsey and spent the rest of the afternoon laying on the beach and getting too scared to snorkel after we spotted a sting ray.... yeah i know, we are babies. You couldnt see three inches in front of you at this beach though and if you learn anything from shark week, if visibility is low, dont go out to the reef... We left early the next morning for Cairns and spent our last day on Trinity Beach soaking up some rays...getting burned in odd places, Kents ankles, my shins, michelle had two spots on her hips.... oh and my neck...
Now we are back in Sydney, and I need to get back to work :-D
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Friday, August 17, 2007
Would Everyone Please Put Their Hands Together
For the newest member to The Morton/Russell family, SOPHIA MARIE RUSSELL!
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
wow
So I was thinking about what our plans are for the next few weeks and i realized how fast this is flying by!
Squi, Jeff, and Michelle are flying in this Saturday. We leave for Cairns Monday night after i get home from work, return late the next Monday. Send off Dave and Lu (roommates), Kent and I go back to work Tuesday, but spend the evenings showing Syndey to Squi, Jeff and Michelle. They leave the 2nd, Kent and I work for a short week. APEC is happening so Sydney is pretty much shutting down. We are going up to Newcastle with friends from Randwick that Friday, taking a long weekend. When we get back from that, we only have three more weeks of work and then we go backpacking! CRAZY!!!!!!!! I can't stop saying that it seems like we JUST GOT HERE! I'm sorry everyone, but i haven't even had time to really miss anyone! Maybe when we are backpacking and i am sleeping in a tent at a croc infested campground i will long for home. It also helps that facebook and e-mail exists, i can check up on whats happening while i work (shhh, dont tell my boss). I think the only person i don't talk to is Lindsey (Parkin) and thats cause she NEVER RETURNS E-MAILS OR FACEBOOK MESSAGES! hint hint!
So whats been happening here in Sydney. I made stuffed shells again, they turned out much better this time. I broke down and bought a glass casserole dish so i could make them properly. It was our turn for Monday dinner and Australian movie night. Lu and Dave brought their two friends, and the regular crowd (david, aoife and sarah) turned up, so the total in our apartment was 10. We had plenty of food (but not forks or couch space) and it was a blast.
Saturday we went to the Clovelly Bowling Club (lawn bowling). That also was great. The club was right on the ocean with spectacular views, the beer was super cheap, and we all brought something for a big BBQ. I made crack pasta (its a hit here too mommy!), and we had sausages, roo-kabobs, chicken, salad, loads of awesome cheese and crackers, and then lots of other things like olives (they LOVE their olives here), these AMAZING peppers stuffed with cheese, breads, etc. I have pictures of this as well. I think you are all getting used to not seeing them, so I won't promise anything this time. Jennifer was much better at posting pictures than I am, sorry. Both the Mortons and my family have CDs with almost all of them, inlcuding 30 pictures of gravestones and about 50 of sailboats, so if you REALLY wanted to, go bother them :-D
umm, i think thats about it for now.
Squi, Jeff, and Michelle are flying in this Saturday. We leave for Cairns Monday night after i get home from work, return late the next Monday. Send off Dave and Lu (roommates), Kent and I go back to work Tuesday, but spend the evenings showing Syndey to Squi, Jeff and Michelle. They leave the 2nd, Kent and I work for a short week. APEC is happening so Sydney is pretty much shutting down. We are going up to Newcastle with friends from Randwick that Friday, taking a long weekend. When we get back from that, we only have three more weeks of work and then we go backpacking! CRAZY!!!!!!!! I can't stop saying that it seems like we JUST GOT HERE! I'm sorry everyone, but i haven't even had time to really miss anyone! Maybe when we are backpacking and i am sleeping in a tent at a croc infested campground i will long for home. It also helps that facebook and e-mail exists, i can check up on whats happening while i work (shhh, dont tell my boss). I think the only person i don't talk to is Lindsey (Parkin) and thats cause she NEVER RETURNS E-MAILS OR FACEBOOK MESSAGES! hint hint!
So whats been happening here in Sydney. I made stuffed shells again, they turned out much better this time. I broke down and bought a glass casserole dish so i could make them properly. It was our turn for Monday dinner and Australian movie night. Lu and Dave brought their two friends, and the regular crowd (david, aoife and sarah) turned up, so the total in our apartment was 10. We had plenty of food (but not forks or couch space) and it was a blast.
Saturday we went to the Clovelly Bowling Club (lawn bowling). That also was great. The club was right on the ocean with spectacular views, the beer was super cheap, and we all brought something for a big BBQ. I made crack pasta (its a hit here too mommy!), and we had sausages, roo-kabobs, chicken, salad, loads of awesome cheese and crackers, and then lots of other things like olives (they LOVE their olives here), these AMAZING peppers stuffed with cheese, breads, etc. I have pictures of this as well. I think you are all getting used to not seeing them, so I won't promise anything this time. Jennifer was much better at posting pictures than I am, sorry. Both the Mortons and my family have CDs with almost all of them, inlcuding 30 pictures of gravestones and about 50 of sailboats, so if you REALLY wanted to, go bother them :-D
umm, i think thats about it for now.
Monday, August 6, 2007
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Australian Idol is on now
My god Australia is actually MORE obbessed with reality TV than the rest of the world. but they don't have their own shows, they just rip off american and british shows.
This week I had to throw a BBQ for aussies, and it worked out really well. Oh my god Australian Idol is painful, why is it still on! this weekend consisted of the flat mates going out to dinner and drinking a buttload of wine, we finished off 5 bottles between the well, 5 of us, but that was mostly me and Dave, the english flat mate.
Other than that this weekend consisted of Laundry and celebrating our extensions, Oh my god an austistic kid is trying out for Australian idol. Australian TV is really bad. Friday we worked all day, then after that I went home and Aoife (eefa) picked us up and we went to a friends house and they decided to show us several Australiana films, we watched part of, my god some australian girl is singing Glamorous by Fergie it's really high pitched and terrible. We watched Ten Canoes, which was an aboriginal film that made really little sense, something about cell phones and having 3 wives and dancing in front of on coming spears, it had a lot of really great colors if I was awake for most of it(or sober) I might have actually enjoyed it. We also watched part of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, which is about Transvesitites, Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce are in it and play two of the three Transvestites, there is one really disturbing part dealing with a drunken asian girl and ping pong balls, I'm not joking when I say there's a man in a banana suit peeing into a urinal. speaking of banana's we went to Paddy's market to get our fruit we didn't get any banana's but they had them we got apples and oranges, the guy in the banana suit plays a a ukelele, we also got red peppers and green peppers which here they call capsicums because it is apparently the genous of the pepper for more information on Capsicums please visit here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum
they also call like hot peppers Chillis which seems lazy, they also pronounce the J in Jalapeno and the T in filet. Ok I'm done for the day, so I'll talk to everyone later, I'm really tired if no one noticed.
-KMO
This week I had to throw a BBQ for aussies, and it worked out really well. Oh my god Australian Idol is painful, why is it still on! this weekend consisted of the flat mates going out to dinner and drinking a buttload of wine, we finished off 5 bottles between the well, 5 of us, but that was mostly me and Dave, the english flat mate.
Other than that this weekend consisted of Laundry and celebrating our extensions, Oh my god an austistic kid is trying out for Australian idol. Australian TV is really bad. Friday we worked all day, then after that I went home and Aoife (eefa) picked us up and we went to a friends house and they decided to show us several Australiana films, we watched part of, my god some australian girl is singing Glamorous by Fergie it's really high pitched and terrible. We watched Ten Canoes, which was an aboriginal film that made really little sense, something about cell phones and having 3 wives and dancing in front of on coming spears, it had a lot of really great colors if I was awake for most of it(or sober) I might have actually enjoyed it. We also watched part of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, which is about Transvesitites, Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce are in it and play two of the three Transvestites, there is one really disturbing part dealing with a drunken asian girl and ping pong balls, I'm not joking when I say there's a man in a banana suit peeing into a urinal. speaking of banana's we went to Paddy's market to get our fruit we didn't get any banana's but they had them we got apples and oranges, the guy in the banana suit plays a a ukelele, we also got red peppers and green peppers which here they call capsicums because it is apparently the genous of the pepper for more information on Capsicums please visit here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum
they also call like hot peppers Chillis which seems lazy, they also pronounce the J in Jalapeno and the T in filet. Ok I'm done for the day, so I'll talk to everyone later, I'm really tired if no one noticed.
-KMO
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