Fiddle Festival

Blue Grass
Fried Fair Food
Inevitable Stomach Ache
Totally Worth It!

Main Street Mile Champions

Bliss

Buying fresh flowers at Boise's farmer's market is pure bliss.

Australia Days 11-12 (final days)

Paronella Park Australia: this is an old spanish-style mansion built by some eccentric man. We didn't actually go in because, like everything in Australia, it cost like $30/person and we were sick of giving Australia all of our money.

But we could play at the swimming hole for $0/person and that we did.

I have about 20 more pictures of Dev and Mike hamming it up for the cameras.

Also, we saw a really cool bright green big tree frog hiding in the bathroom. Mom, Dev and Mike all poked it. I didn't poke it because I think that is rude. But I did like looking at it.



Waterfall Circuit. Please note how the water is all fuzzy and pretty and everything else is sharp. It is a new camera trick I learned on this trip.

This was a beautiful piece of country. It was so green and serene. I could easily live somewhere like this.

We spent our last day in Australia relaxing at Yorkie's Knob. We spent most of the day just playing in the waves and making up games and throwing frisbees. Then that evening, we took 1 million pictures of ourselves.

It was starting to get dark and my pictures started to get crappy. That is just how it goes when you are the kind of girl who does not know how to use the flash on her over-complicated camera.

Em is Dev's girlfriend. Doesn't this kind of make you wish you were Dev's girlfriend?

We loved Australia. We loved the reef and the jungle and the beach and the meat pies. I especially just loved getting to spend day in and day out with all my wonderful family.

Australia Days 9-10 Fitzroy Island Snorkelling & Lounging

Nudey Beach: It is a bit of a hike (and quite a letdown if you were hoping it to be a nude beach) but it is a beautiful beach with fabulous snorkeling. We passed a memorable day here snorkeling, playing frisbee, eating pizza crackers, reading, throwing strange fruit at a log, napping and playing 13.

Mike ended up swimming with a dense, enormous school of fish.

A sting ray trying to hide.

Also, the secret garden walk during which we planned out a survival plan in case the rest of the world became uninhabitable stranding us on Fitzroy (this is what comes of reading Hunger Games on vacation).

Australia Day 9 Fitzroy Island

Devin conquering a coconut on the beach with a shell and a brick.



Cockatoo

Mike snorkelling, as usual. He was so happy out there with the fishies.

It is difficult to consider a vacation where you are often sharing a room with your brother, mom and husband to be romantic but we liked to pretend by making Dev take romantic pictures of us.

Also:
* Our apartment was RIGHT on the beach. It was beautiful. The only problem was that our 2 bedroom was more like one bedroom with a bed in the living room. Oh well...
* Extremely steep hike to the summit. I spent the whole time scared of snakes.
* Humidity
* Large monitor lizards
* Cockatoos everywhere
* Amazing snorkelling.
* Worst convenience store in the world. There was not a single fresh item. But at least they had meat pies.
* Really nice dinner.
* Scary movie that made me unable to sleep. Why would an island resort play a movie about a serial killer?