Friday, May 23, 2014

Botanic Gardens with Aunt C and U Neil

We had so much fun and were very lucky to have Uncle Neil and his friends come visit us while A. Camilla was already here visiting us. We took them all over Sydney to see all our favorite places. This was the day we went to The botanic gardens and darling harbour.
Checking out the eels
eels

feeding the eels bread
Stopping off for lunch at the Royal Botanic Gardens Cafe


Wow, AU has some awesome plants
My little bro. He's a handsome dude.





Someone was willing to part with their cool shades in order to help this guy out.
Memorial in the CBD
Resting in Hyde Park

Drinking from the fountain. We love this place.


Beautiful Sister of mine


Hyde Park War Memorial

Hyde Park Fountain


More Hyde Park Fountains
Darling Harbour 
We ate here and saw what there is to see before heading home after a long long day. Thank you friends for coming to visit us down under.

After Swim With Dad and Camilla-Coogee Beach walk

After swimming lessons we went for a walk around the beach with Dad and Aunt Camilla It's just beautiful.
Coogee beach. We just love it and miss it so much.





Ethne swimming in tide pools

So fun!
Tide pools=treasures. 

It's beautiful mom

Kangaroo Island: Getting There

The Car we rented. We drove a ways down to the edge of AU to get the ferry over to KI.
The drive was beautiful. The scenery was so very different from what we see here in Sydney. Both are beautiful, but I am so glad we got to see both South Australia and New South Wales. They are great places.
Lots of things like this-but there were tons of Kangaroos just grazing. We drove down at dusk after G got off work that day and it was so fun and so new to see Kangaroos instead of deer coming out for the night.
This was a dirt road on KI. Only the main roads are actually paved and then there are a lot of dirt roads for places off the main path :)
This was on the night we got back on the ferry to go home from KI. We got back to that area early and so we went to a beach by the ferry until it was time to load up.
Garrett felt very sentimental standing on that beach and looking out. He said we will most likely NEVER be back here in our lives again. I thought about that and said well you never know. But he said really? I don't think we will ever be back. It will be like NZ when we say well we have been there already so do we want to go some place new??
I figure he is probably right and most likely we will never be on Kangaroo Island again, but we have great pictures and great memories of being there and we had LOADS of fun with our kids!!
Good bye KI, we Love you!
These are out of order-pictures driving around before we got to the island

Sunset on the boat
The RED AU flag.
Ezra modeling for the camera as he and I waited for G, E, and E
Makes a great little picture in his little wool sailor coat :)



Entertainment on the 45min ferry ride home. We were hoping they would sleep but there were tv's everywhere playing stupid shows we didn't want them to watch so we gave them our devices to keep them busy.
More sunset on the boat.