I lied, here's a photo

How cute is Eliza???? She rainbow-ordered our teas while waiting for the kettle to boil this morning. I'm going to miss that little darling!

Cairns Thwarted........................

...................But only for one day!!!

Boooo, this morning I was quite livid and disappointed after hearing that my flight today was cancelled. Luckily I only got as far as the bus stop across the road but I was still utterly devastated! I'm booked on the flight for tomorrow and I'll still make it to the rainforest and great barrier reef day trips that I have booked. It's sad to miss out on a whole day of sun, fun and beachiness but c'est la vie. It's also given me the kick in the butt to get a bit more headway done on my final paper. It's environmental law, super dry and 3000 words. At this point, I'm so written out I can't fathom writing even 500 more words but the research has definitely been enlightening.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaand I finalized my travel details for Sydney next Monday (ONE MORE WEEK EEEEEEK!) and have a cheap hotel room near the airport so I can get a good night sleep before my epic journey Tuesday. Aaaaaaaaaaaand it came with a $50 "beverage" and food credit. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Margarita Mondaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.........by myself..........in a hotel room.............about to embark on a 20 hour flight.........................hmmmmmm, may rethink that one.
Anywho, I promise I have lots of pictures to show you, I'm just too lazy to unpack my camera from the deep crevasses of my 'Cairns' bag to share them with you.
I love you guys!

This was (is) on our front porch

I think it's an alien lizard species, that slithers through grass and doesn't need a tail.......

Kidnapped

So yesterday I came home from a yoga/brunch date with a new friend Dana, only to find myself kidnapped and driven away on a crazy road trip by Julien and Eliza! They took me on an amazing adventure, refusing to tell me the next stop anywhere along the way, it was so fun!! First off we hit the "whispering wall" which is a huge reservoir just outside of Adelaide. After it was built, people realized if you were standing on one side of the dam your voice could carry all the way across to the other side. Seriously, you can literally whisper words across 100+ feet of space and the people on the other side hear it as though you were standing right next to them! How crazy is that??

Next on the way was a HUGE rocking horse, likely the world's biggest because I honestly can't think of who else would want such an enormous wooden rocking horse. it brought to mind the Trojan War Horse, but way friendlier and more kid-friendly. There was a really cool sign with the names of major world cities on it, with distance and direction indicated. Vancouver was there but no Toronto that we saw. In case youre wondering, Vancouver is over 14,000 km from Adelaide......

There was also a petting zoo with these HUGE alpacas, they looked like enormous poodles! There were adorable wallabies, some larger kangaroos and some really scary sheep that wouldn't leave us alone and would scare off all the other animals so they could eat all the food we were offering. They were so mean and kept fighting each other and literally rubbing up against us trying to get at the bag of animal food. The best part was probably the parrot that said 'hello' and 'wanna cracker' in an aussie accent!

We hit an enormous chocolate factory where I overindulged in free samples and marshmallow bananas (my favorite!) and then we arrived in our final destination: Hahndorf, which is a tiny German town outside of Adelaide in the hills. It's SOOO quaint and adorable, very touristy and picturesque and we poked around a couple stores before they closed (because as you should know by now, 5pm on a Saturday is the last chance for ANY purchases/groceries/conveniences). Maddie and Aaron met us for dinner there and the rest of the night was spent in a food coma, watching movies and going to bed early.