Australia!

We have been on holiday in Australia's east coast for the past 3 weeks! It has been a vacation of a lifetime. We spent a week in Bondi beach outside of Sydney, then rented a R/V camper for 10 days and drove up north (where it is warmer in the southern hemisphere) and enjoyed the endless number of beautiful beaches, and now we are ending out trip in lovely Sydney where the wharf is outside our hotel door with views of the Harbour Bridge and the Opera house. Paradise.

George's favorite part was definitely the surfing. He surfered almost everyday until I made him return his surf board yesterday. Of course he got up at 5:30 to get in as many waves as possible until he had to return it at 9 am to the surf shop. He finally has some photos of himself surfing so awesome waves.

Savannah's best memory was being woken up our first night of camping by the stangest sound which was a cross between a pig snort and someone burping... turns out it was a koala in the tree above us with her baby. She also learned to surf in the ever forgiving waves of Australia surf. Enjoying the warm sunshine and beautiful sunsets was also high on the list.

Tyler will never forget when he got to pet a wild kangaroo. They were in our campsite when we were at Crowdy Bay. The mama had a mid-sized joey which decided to take a nap so he crawled inside his mama's pouch but his leg were so long that they hung out of the front. He was not shy and walked right up and just petted them. He also taught many Aussie's how to say "hello" in Chinese!

My favorite memory was camping together and hanging out together playing games. The Aussie people were very friendly and it was a joy to be here with my family. I love the beaches here. There is just one after another of natural beaches without tourist or many houses for that matter. We have enjoyed the campsites which have common "kitchen" areas which include of course a grill but not the kind of grill we have in America but a flat grill like McDonald's. It was a little strange and first but I ended up loving them as you can pretty much make your whole meal on the grill.

We met MANY people from Germany. Mostly young couples who are traveling for 3-6 months in the land down under. They were in anything from backpacks & tents to vans with tops that popped up. Most of the towns we went through had signs that said "Backpacker's Welcome". It was wonderful to see many friendly faces and people who were on the same journey.

We will be back! George and I have decided to spend our 20th Wedding Anniversay here. 2014 will be here before we know it. Next time, we will be heading north to the Great Barrier reef and then of course to some surfing locations!