It’s Sunday and opening day for the Australian Open! I was still not feeling 100% from the stupid frustrating cold and cough. Booo. We headed out about 10am for the walk to Melbourne Park. It was cloudy and forecast to rain and so the crowds stayed away. We walked right in and to our first…
Bye Bye Cains! The weather here is heavenly! Almost no humidity and much, much cooler temps. I felt myself coming alive again! We landed in Melbourne, picked up our rental mini van, and hit the Great Ocean Road. It’s such a scenic drive. Also, it’s such a tight and curvy road. (The sign made us so…
Today we were supposed to be waterfall chasing day in the Atherton Tablelands. There are like 10 waterfalls within an hour of each other. Some are just 1/4-1/2 mile off the road, and one we had planned a big hike. (Side note—I drove! On the left! Go me! Also….I cannot believe how pretty the tablelands…
We woke up to pouring rain. But the temperature outside was still nice, so we decided to keep our plans to go to Daintree Rainforest. We stopped to collect shells at 4 Mile beach in Fort Douglas. The water is home to salt water crocodiles, so no swimming or wading here. Josh and Rusty and…
This was not our favorite day. We were still tired, (Blake just wanted to stay home and chill) and maybe a little “wowed” out. Because we rode a gondola over a beautiful rainforest and we were like, “meh.” I think we would have enjoyed it much more at a different time. It was sprinkling rain,…
We all needed a bit of a sleep in this morning. So that’s exactly what we did! It was heavenly. Then we packed up for our beach day. We went to Google for lunch. The Sydney campus is really beautiful! And as always, I wonder how anyone at Google can focus long enough to work….
We flew straight past Christmas and landed in Sydney on the 26th. Our Airbnb host was kind enough to let us come early and drop bags and freshen up a bit. Then we down to Circular Quay to get our first views of Harbor Bridge and the Opera House. It was SO stunning and none…