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Back Home Again

22 days, 2 countries, 8 plane flights, 1 helicoper ride, 6 boat rides, 9 hotels, 2 trains, many buses and trams and approximately 19,000 miles, we arrived home today. Unpacking and sorting everything out.
What a surprise to have such a beautiful day. It should be a good night for a football game. Good luck Cole and Kyle.
This Christmas tree was by Sawarski Crystals, it was 3 stories high, the decorations are all made of crystals, the base of the tree was all crystal. It was too large to get it all in, I just got the 3rd floor version.

Last Day

Our Last night in Austrailia, have to repack tonight, because I overweight and not just in my luggage. These are pictures of snorkling on the great barrier reef, our helicoper ride over the reef, the harbor bridge in Sydney and the Sydney opera house. Mama Mia was fun last night. We'll be home in a few days.

Sydney Opera House

Did the tour of the opera house today, with lunch at the skytower. Tonight we are going to see the play of Mama Mia. Tomorrow we do Sydney Harbour tour. This is a huge city, and it's difficult to get around. Last night we went to Hurricanes down at the wharf for ribs, they were fantastic.
Good luck Cole and Kyle, we might be home in time.

Flying to Sydney

We see that the Packers lost, always seem to get our sporting news. The weather is getting really hot, it's a fly day, catch up in Sydney

The Great Barrier Reef

I had a few minutes before we go for dinner with Carol and Larry so I ran down to Global Gossip, but forgot my camera, so no pictures of the reef. We snorkeled, and did the helicoper ride. It is absolutely beautiful, the colors and the fish. I bought the pictures of us swimming with this huge blue fish. The coral colors and fish are just fantastic. We lost quite a few passengers to seasickness, but we both did fine. Howard did get to golf a couple of days ago in Cairns, (they don't pronounce the r's here). He had a couple of days in New Zealand when he wasn't feeling well, we finally figured out that he had gotten dehydrated. We filled him full of liquids and in a couple of days he was back to normal. One lady is going to the doctor tonight, she's either got strep or broncitis. This is a real vacation place, it's so much fun watching the people. We ran into 3 flight attendants from Virgin Air last night that were feeling no pain, luckily we are flying out tomorrow with Quantas. On to Sydney for our last city.

Cairns, Austrailia

Happy Halloween, although we are on Nov. 1st. We did the tropical rain forest today, the train and the skylift. Tomorrow is the Great Barrier Reef. We are in the tropics now and it's warm, but have been having showers which keep it from being hot.