February Adventures

We've kind of settled in to a bit of a routine lately. We play tourists all weekend long and start each Monday exhausted from our travels. We've recently had trips to Port Macquarie, Sydney, and Seal Rocks. We'll attach a few new photos which will hopefully be worth a 1000 words each(that way I won't have to write as much...).
Sydney is a gorgeous city full of high viewpoints and famous vistas.
We went down for a three day weekend to a conference with all the other exchange teachers from New South Wales. We played tourists mainly and stayed with the family of another exchange family from Devon, England.
Seal Rocks was a unpopulated coastal getaway about an hour and a half south of Old Bar. Port Macquarie is the town Karen wishes we lived in an hour north.
The weather has gotten extremely humid and quite wet. When it rains it pours. We've had several fantastic lightening/thunderstorms. Then the next morning it's hot and the sky is blue. The clouds roll in in the afternoon for a deluge or two then it clears again.
We had our first American visitor. Tricia Normoyle, Karens lifelong buddy, just left after spending a week here. We hope she had a great time. My parents are coming in on Thursday for a week then will take a couple week tour of New Zealand. We wish we could do another couple weeks in NZ. We loved it there. Of course we weren't working yet.....
Kyle turns 14 tomorrow and has become a diligent, relentless, patient and competent surfer. He has remained very committed despite the difficulties it presents.
Mariah goes to Sydney tomorrow for a leadership conference. She and Jake were both voted onto the school's student council. Only one boy and girl from each class gets this distinction and we are very proud (and a bit surprised)of them being chosen. They wear special pins designating their new found status. Future politicians...? I sure hope not...
Enjoy the photos! In our new format the pictures show up full size if you click on them. Try it. They are in no particular order: Karen and her new wallaby buddy, beach beers, Seal Rocks, a little bridge kiss, the kids in Sydney in front of the Opera house and the Harbor Bridge, Kyle and his surfing "coach" Rob, The whole family at the Sugarloaf lighthouse at Seal Rocks, and a couple of American Booties at Booti Booti National Park (you gotta just love visiting a coastal park called Booti Booti...) If you look closely at the picture with the bridge you can make out the people who have shelled out $265 to hike the dang thing. It looked very fun but we couldn't swing the expense... :(
Enjoy the Spring. We're heading into the fall...
M,K,K,M and J