WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

That was an AWESOME time away!!!!!!!!!!
I couldn't BEILEIVE arriving off the plane! It was awesome!




Guess what!? To make it cooler Dad is back to! Yay!!!!!!

HOME!!!... and unpacking

HOME!!! I'll see most of you tommorrow(Thursday), some Sunday, some both!!! On the plane I got to hand out the lollies!!! (that means I got the spares!!) See you soon!!!!!!!!!!!

An 100% awesome weekend

17 hours of travelling, 8 hours of walking ... BUT ... 80 hours of fun!


Two hours on the plane from Adelaide to Alice Springs. The view was magnificent!


I've seen Uluru.

I've riden on an AWESOME camel called Eddie and now I've got a (soft toy) camel called Eddie! I've got proof I've riden on an awesome camel!!! (You may not see he's awesome but he was!)

On Thursday

Up early, left the house by about 8.15. On a flight to Alice Springs where we picked up rental car with all camping gear including REALLY cool Australian things called swags. They are canvas matress covers that you put a slesping bag in and you basically put them on the ground and look up at the stars with NOTHING at all above you! COOL AS!!!!! Spent a night at KINGS CANYON!!! What a lovely swim after 36 degrees!!! HOT!!!

On Friday

Wake up 6.00am! We had a (tiring) walk around and up the hill. I was tired after waking up early and then driving for 20 minutes before a 8km 3 hour walk (with a lot of teenagers from a school trip on the track too!)

Started walk at about 8am and finished at 11.20. It was around 36 degrees. Dad had already poured 1/2 a bottle of water on my head - so refreshing!!! Lunch atKathleen Springs, with no seagulls to beg for food, and then petrol and icecream back at Kings Creek where we had camped over night. Then, "just keep drivin', just keep drivin'".

Stopped at Curtin Springs and eventually got to a place where we could see ULURU!!!

I have seen ULURU!!!

Drove around "The Rock" with cameras out! and seeing Aboriginal men who own Uluru half way up the rock chatting - we couldn't hear what they said.

SPLASH! (that comes from me in the swimming pool: very refreshing!)

On Saturday

More walking for 10kn: 3 hours! Walked between Kata Tjuta rocks (sometimes known as The Olgas)

COOL!!!

Then a walk to only permanent waterhole near Uluru.

Drove to Stuart's Well for the night.

On Sunday

Headed home after an awesome weekend, stopping for a camel ride on Eddie.

A fun weekend!

On Saturday we walked to an island: Granite Island. On Sunday we went on a boat in the Coorong National Park by the Murray River Mouth. It was fun. There were two walks to go on:
1. A mozzie walk to the sea on the other side of the sand dunes.
2. A walk that had Aboriginal camps sites: proof from dark sand camping fires and big piles of cockle shells. There was fresh water underneath the ground. We dug a hole and drank the water that formed in it. Yum! It was quite like a desert really: high sand hills, blowing sand, HOT, HOT, HOT!

Friday

Yesterday I went to the South Australian Museum. It was really cool. There were fossils and other cool things like different cultural groups: Maori and some Papua New Guinea: where my Dad was born and grew up.

I enjoyed the delicious subway Mum bought me before going to a shopping centre: DressMart sort of thing where we wandered around until Dad came. When Mum or Mum and Dad were in shops, Shannon filmed me doing crazy things or making 20 second ads about “no smoking” or “don’t litter” on our cameras. Had lots of fun and have been for quite a while!

mum's blog has some pics

we are on laptop battery only, so can't post them here too at the mo.

see here

Monday 8 September

On Wednesday we went to the zoo and saw lots of cool Australian animals, meerkats, sealions, lions who ate littlekids hats that they threw near the cage, tasmanian devils and got to touch kangaroos and quokkas!!!

Yesterday (Fathers Day) woke Dad with banana pancakes (Yum!)

On Saturday went to the footy (Australian Rules): Adelaide Crows vs Collingwood (Melbourne) Magpies. Collingwood won over 100 to 94. Collingwood seemed REALLY happy about winning!(REALLY!) We had to sing the Australian national anthem!!! I just stood there doing nothing!!! (I didn'tknow what to say!!!)

Thanks for all the comments

It is SO nice to hear from you all!
Thanks for the emails that some of you have been sending.
(Mum says, "we are having trouble sending emails, have to do it on webmail which makes it a bit of a pain, so if you don't get replies back, sorry!") Kayli says, "don't feel unloved!"

Have a good day!

A fun weekend

Went up to Flinders Ranges for the weekend and saw some cute kangaroos!
It was a five hour drive. Dad drove it all. We also saw emus and heard kookaburras.

Made yummy muffins yesterday - we didm't grease them! Ooops! Never mind! (I ate some!)

Friday 29 August

Yesterday, Mum, Shannon and I went to the travel agent. We got brochures for Uluru, Kangaroo Island and Flinders Ranges. Today, Friday, we are going to Flinders.

Yesterday we went to the Migration Museum. It had lots of stuff about the first settlers in Australia! It had this wall thing that you would push buttons and it would tell you if you were allowed into Australia (pre 1980s). For example: You are Asian... GO HOME!!! or you are Eurpoean - Welcome to Australia!

Then we had lunch outside it, then walked to an Art Gallery and went to an Aboriginal Exhibition which was COOL!!!!!

Then after buying someshoes and pressies for friends back at home, we gotback on the tram and went home- as far as we could go on the tram and then along the beach.

I am looking forward to Flinders Ranges and I am looking forward to seeing some kangaroos if we can!

Thanks for your comments, Eden and Dominic and Miss P... nice to hear from you!

wednesday 27 august

yesterday we went to a big big big big big big mall. we got to go on the bus. it took a wee while to track down...
it has been very very sunny and warm. we have enjoyed playing at the beach and yesterday we had lunch there!

Fun in Adelaide

Arrived safely, having a fabulous time in Adelaide.

Yesterday we went to church, Mt Lofty and Stirling market.
We went to see Daddy's friend and there were kids there. We went on a little walk that led us to adventure as some of the rocks that we were standing on and were supporting our weight were quite likely to fall.
Thankfully nobody got hurt.
It was fun.

We are staying at a house very close to the beach.

SOON!

Next Friday I am going to Adelaide in South Australia!!!! I am looking forward to it very much but I am going to miss my friends. On this blog I am going to explain what I do and where I go and how much fun it all is.