Well our journey is almost at an end...yes it's hard to believe. After all the planning, traveling and goodtimes, it will finally be over. Apart of us wishes we could spend more time here, but now that we are on the home strech..we are ready to go home to Arizona! We will be back July 9th in Arizona.
As for what we have been up to, well school has been winding down which means FINALS!!! we arent too happy about those but on the brighter side we are going on a road trip to the Great Barrier Reef! Yea you read that right, road trip! We are renting a van and bringing Lacey and Denise with us! it should take about a days drive. We are leaving Saturday morning and hopefully getting back july 1st. Cross fingers! We cant wait!
Well heres a couple of pictures and a video of our fun. It includes us being apart of a magic show on the streets. Maria was trying to get kurt to volunteer as the assistant, but the magician said he needed someone with a brown sweater and jeans with brown thongs(what Maria was wearing) Another includes seeing the effiel tower at the best Italian Cafe in Brisbane and the cars around it and of course us on the town! Enjoy! See ya soon!
Lately
Look of downtown
Friday, June 8, 2007
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Mom and Olga come to visit
These past two weeks, the USA came to visit Down under in the form of Mom and Olga. Maria first meet them is Sydney and was really exciting to have a piece of home down here. We of course had a fun time exploring the city, going to aquirium, the zoo(where we finally saw kangaroos! been in the country 3 months hadnt seen any) went on a river cruise(which we went on the wrong boat which was the longer crusie but no one notice...shhhh) and saw that Sydney had to offer.
The best part we could say about Syndey was celebrating Olga's birthday(she got two days) at the ballet in the Opera House. It was absoulety beautiful and shocking to see the dancers muscles booming out of them. It was great fun.
We then headed to our town, Brisbane. Here we relaxed, explored some parts and saw some of the touristy things.We of course took them to the beach which was a little cold, but its fall here. However the most important thing was having Meixcan food. We hadnt had it in 3 months and of course mom and olga bought mexican food and made homemade tortillas(which they hand rolled with a beer bottle).
Having them here was amazing. It was like we got a little taste of home which we dearly miss! Thank you both for coming...we had an amazing time!
Some of the pictures and videos are contrubted by mom and olga. There is alot which is why this blog is short...we love and miss everyone!
Mom and Olga Down Under
Mom and Olga Down Under Part 2
tour of room
olgas birthday
tour by maria
lunch time
sharks
kangaroos
beach
The best part we could say about Syndey was celebrating Olga's birthday(she got two days) at the ballet in the Opera House. It was absoulety beautiful and shocking to see the dancers muscles booming out of them. It was great fun.
We then headed to our town, Brisbane. Here we relaxed, explored some parts and saw some of the touristy things.We of course took them to the beach which was a little cold, but its fall here. However the most important thing was having Meixcan food. We hadnt had it in 3 months and of course mom and olga bought mexican food and made homemade tortillas(which they hand rolled with a beer bottle).
Having them here was amazing. It was like we got a little taste of home which we dearly miss! Thank you both for coming...we had an amazing time!
Some of the pictures and videos are contrubted by mom and olga. There is alot which is why this blog is short...we love and miss everyone!
Mom and Olga Down Under
Mom and Olga Down Under Part 2
tour of room
olgas birthday
tour by maria
lunch time
sharks
kangaroos
beach
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Morten Island
It is the wee hours here down under, but it the only time we are able to update bc house has gone over our Internet usage..again. Oh well as is life
Anyways we just got back from camping from Morten Island and omg it was amazing. We went with two of our friends Lacey and Victoria and although it was a small group we had so much fun! The ferry you take just drops you off and you see these huge sand dunes! It was like Gilligan's island, but we had no skipper!
The first day we got there we set up our tent. Our tent was a little on the "special" side which bothered Cristalle a tad, but Maria was like uh whatever. We then went exploring the island. Rumor had it that the island had sharks in the water, but locals told us it on the other side...ummm yea. We did see some fishes and a manta ray which was cool. That night we hung out in the tents and started a fire. We cooked Beans! Go Us(espically Cristalle)
The next day we went sand tobogganing. We had to climb up this huge hill which was a work out in it self. You then go head first down these mountains at 65 kph(im not sure what that is in miles, but it is hella fast!) It was so much fun even when we got sand in our face and eyes. We were covered in sand for the rest of the weekend. We even went two at a time...goodtimes! We will have pictures of that in upcoming weeks. We couldnt bring our camera bc we didnt want it damage. However Vics did get the longest disatance! Woot!
That night we went to the dolphin feeding. There wer elike 8 dolphins and they kept getting tons and tons of fish,which is only 10 percent of their diet.It was cool to watch, espically the little kids feeding the dolphins, so cute. The dolphins even did some killa moves.(see video)
The next day we went on a banana boat which is basically a long raft. It was alot of fun,but we wanted the guy to faster, but sadly he didnt :( He probally didnt think us Americans could handle it...psh whateve.
We then went snokling(Maria didnt get sea sick, but it was a big boat) around the wrecks near the island. That was alot of fun bc we got to feed the fish and they jumped up at you. The coral was beautiful and the water was so blue! It was beautiful.
The next day it rained(can we go anywhere when it doesnt rain?) But it was ok bc we were leaving anyways with sand, smelly and covered in bug bites! The Mozzies lived us! We soon got back to Brisbane and decided to see Spiderman 3...disappointment just fyi!
Anyways we are having a good time and awaiting the arrival of Maria's Mom and Aunt Olga...EXCITING!!! Well that is all we love and miss you and we will see you soon!
PS~Maria did the last video for a class..you might like it
Morten Island
Playing with Fire
Fun at Sun Set
dolphins
Arizona
Anyways we just got back from camping from Morten Island and omg it was amazing. We went with two of our friends Lacey and Victoria and although it was a small group we had so much fun! The ferry you take just drops you off and you see these huge sand dunes! It was like Gilligan's island, but we had no skipper!
The first day we got there we set up our tent. Our tent was a little on the "special" side which bothered Cristalle a tad, but Maria was like uh whatever. We then went exploring the island. Rumor had it that the island had sharks in the water, but locals told us it on the other side...ummm yea. We did see some fishes and a manta ray which was cool. That night we hung out in the tents and started a fire. We cooked Beans! Go Us(espically Cristalle)
The next day we went sand tobogganing. We had to climb up this huge hill which was a work out in it self. You then go head first down these mountains at 65 kph(im not sure what that is in miles, but it is hella fast!) It was so much fun even when we got sand in our face and eyes. We were covered in sand for the rest of the weekend. We even went two at a time...goodtimes! We will have pictures of that in upcoming weeks. We couldnt bring our camera bc we didnt want it damage. However Vics did get the longest disatance! Woot!
That night we went to the dolphin feeding. There wer elike 8 dolphins and they kept getting tons and tons of fish,which is only 10 percent of their diet.It was cool to watch, espically the little kids feeding the dolphins, so cute. The dolphins even did some killa moves.(see video)
The next day we went on a banana boat which is basically a long raft. It was alot of fun,but we wanted the guy to faster, but sadly he didnt :( He probally didnt think us Americans could handle it...psh whateve.
We then went snokling(Maria didnt get sea sick, but it was a big boat) around the wrecks near the island. That was alot of fun bc we got to feed the fish and they jumped up at you. The coral was beautiful and the water was so blue! It was beautiful.
The next day it rained(can we go anywhere when it doesnt rain?) But it was ok bc we were leaving anyways with sand, smelly and covered in bug bites! The Mozzies lived us! We soon got back to Brisbane and decided to see Spiderman 3...disappointment just fyi!
Anyways we are having a good time and awaiting the arrival of Maria's Mom and Aunt Olga...EXCITING!!! Well that is all we love and miss you and we will see you soon!
PS~Maria did the last video for a class..you might like it
Morten Island
Playing with Fire
Fun at Sun Set
dolphins
Arizona
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Texas is in Arizona
The headline we have were asked by our new roomies...yea we got new roomies again! Is it something we said? hehe but we like them better than the pervious two so all is good!
So what exactly have we been up here down under? Well we are glad you asked!In the last two weeks we both have been swapped with school. The study part in study aboard kinda erks us. We thought we were signing up for a 5 month vacation...where does it say we are studying... our parents are rolling their eyes right about now!
Haha but yea in those two weeks we have also been enjoying Brisbane! This city never gets boring and neither the people. We went to a party where the theme was PHD. You basically come dressed as something that starts with one of those letters, so Cristalle went as a paperboy with no paper and Maria just threw on a phoenix jersey and called it a day. Other people were much more creative as you will see by the pictures.goodtimes.
Other than that its been business as usual. Maria did go to Movie World which is basically Universal Studios on a smaller scale. She also did go to Mnt. Cootha which is a mountain here where you can go on and see the whole city. Very Beautiful, but the pictures didnt come out so she got a video.
Some updates of what we are doing in the next couple of weeks. Next weekend we are going to Morten Island with some of our friends to go camping and then the week after Maria's Mom and Aunt Olga are coming downunder...WE ARE EXCITED!!!!! Hopefully the weather will be better and less humid!
We love and miss everyone and we will be seeing you soon!
Posing
mnt. cootha
Drivin
So what exactly have we been up here down under? Well we are glad you asked!In the last two weeks we both have been swapped with school. The study part in study aboard kinda erks us. We thought we were signing up for a 5 month vacation...where does it say we are studying... our parents are rolling their eyes right about now!
Haha but yea in those two weeks we have also been enjoying Brisbane! This city never gets boring and neither the people. We went to a party where the theme was PHD. You basically come dressed as something that starts with one of those letters, so Cristalle went as a paperboy with no paper and Maria just threw on a phoenix jersey and called it a day. Other people were much more creative as you will see by the pictures.goodtimes.
Other than that its been business as usual. Maria did go to Movie World which is basically Universal Studios on a smaller scale. She also did go to Mnt. Cootha which is a mountain here where you can go on and see the whole city. Very Beautiful, but the pictures didnt come out so she got a video.
Some updates of what we are doing in the next couple of weeks. Next weekend we are going to Morten Island with some of our friends to go camping and then the week after Maria's Mom and Aunt Olga are coming downunder...WE ARE EXCITED!!!!! Hopefully the weather will be better and less humid!
We love and miss everyone and we will be seeing you soon!
Posing
mnt. cootha
Drivin
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Byron Bay
Quiz Time! When is the worst time to find out you are ultra sensitive to sea sickness? Is it:
A)After having spent 20 years in the desert?(We can only image how Moses would have reacted after 40 years, this proves shes half a Jew..)
B)After taking 2 days of dive classes,to only find out the third day
C)On a tiny boat in the middle of nowhere
D)All the above
If you guess D then you are correct and understand what Maria went through this weekend. This true desert rat discovered she was prone to sea sickness that not even the strongest medicine could cure. Of course this was discovered on the third day out at sea after training in the pool and class work. It was not a good last days, so she could not get certified. However in theory Maria could dive! Cristalle on the other hand passed with flying colors and she got certified. Congrats Cristalle!
The trip was not a totaled loss. Both of us did get to see sharks, fishes, nemos, dolphins, and Cristalle saw a Sting Ray, tons of shraks, Corals, and alot of underwater things.
Other things we did was Maria got to drive a boat(the guy said it would help cure her sea sickness...lies). We did enjoy the most eastern part of Australia and the view espically from the light house, which was a hike in itself. You saw the whole small city. Byron Bay might be a small town but its beautiful. Expensive, but beautiful. We did get a great meal of stake, chicken, drinks, salad, and cheesecake which was 35 dollars combine. You cant do better down under.
Well that's about our trip to Byron. We got back to Brisbane god awful early to a house Mattyless :( He went back to Germany, but if anyone wants to donate to the bring him back to Brisbane fund, just give us a call! We hope everyone had a Happy Easter and we will be seeing you soon! Cheers!
Byron Bay
Sun Set
A)After having spent 20 years in the desert?(We can only image how Moses would have reacted after 40 years, this proves shes half a Jew..)
B)After taking 2 days of dive classes,to only find out the third day
C)On a tiny boat in the middle of nowhere
D)All the above
If you guess D then you are correct and understand what Maria went through this weekend. This true desert rat discovered she was prone to sea sickness that not even the strongest medicine could cure. Of course this was discovered on the third day out at sea after training in the pool and class work. It was not a good last days, so she could not get certified. However in theory Maria could dive! Cristalle on the other hand passed with flying colors and she got certified. Congrats Cristalle!
The trip was not a totaled loss. Both of us did get to see sharks, fishes, nemos, dolphins, and Cristalle saw a Sting Ray, tons of shraks, Corals, and alot of underwater things.
Other things we did was Maria got to drive a boat(the guy said it would help cure her sea sickness...lies). We did enjoy the most eastern part of Australia and the view espically from the light house, which was a hike in itself. You saw the whole small city. Byron Bay might be a small town but its beautiful. Expensive, but beautiful. We did get a great meal of stake, chicken, drinks, salad, and cheesecake which was 35 dollars combine. You cant do better down under.
Well that's about our trip to Byron. We got back to Brisbane god awful early to a house Mattyless :( He went back to Germany, but if anyone wants to donate to the bring him back to Brisbane fund, just give us a call! We hope everyone had a Happy Easter and we will be seeing you soon! Cheers!
Byron Bay
Sun Set
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
When The City Shuts Down..We Still Party!
So when Brisbane shuts down because of Easter what is two American girls suppose to do? Well you party! Well sort of...
Friday the whole city seemed to have shut down. Only a couple places were open, but Cristalle still had to work. No worries though because later that night we went to a BBQ at our friends place, which we had to walk up a hill to get to because the usual bus stop was close due to the holidays. However it was still alot of fun espically being one of their birthdays and we had the best cake known to man. You got to love Germans!
Saturday we couldnt leave the city at a decent hour to enjoy our road trip so we instead went to our first rugby game! We joined the Red Army(not that one) and went to see the Queensland Reds! Didnt know exactly what was going on, but we loved it!However, sadly, we got our bootys kicked! But we still enjoyed it! GO REDS! GO REDS!
Sunday we finally got to leave to Mooloolaba to meet up with our roommates Matty and Phil in their van which is ummm intersting looking(you got to see the pictures). It took us 3 hours by bus and train to get there(which included us running through the station) However Mooloolaba was beautiful but rainy(surprise) so we decide to see 300(it finally came out here) THIS IS SPARTA!!! It was amazing we recommend to go see it! We then spent the next day at the beach and then back to Brisbane!
We took tons of pictures and videos so please enjoy! In other news,we are staying in Brisbane a couple of days and then off to Byron Bay to dive with the sharks!!! We love and miss everyone!
Red Moo
Red Games!
Red Part 1
Red Part 2
Sunrise
Friday the whole city seemed to have shut down. Only a couple places were open, but Cristalle still had to work. No worries though because later that night we went to a BBQ at our friends place, which we had to walk up a hill to get to because the usual bus stop was close due to the holidays. However it was still alot of fun espically being one of their birthdays and we had the best cake known to man. You got to love Germans!
Saturday we couldnt leave the city at a decent hour to enjoy our road trip so we instead went to our first rugby game! We joined the Red Army(not that one) and went to see the Queensland Reds! Didnt know exactly what was going on, but we loved it!However, sadly, we got our bootys kicked! But we still enjoyed it! GO REDS! GO REDS!
Sunday we finally got to leave to Mooloolaba to meet up with our roommates Matty and Phil in their van which is ummm intersting looking(you got to see the pictures). It took us 3 hours by bus and train to get there(which included us running through the station) However Mooloolaba was beautiful but rainy(surprise) so we decide to see 300(it finally came out here) THIS IS SPARTA!!! It was amazing we recommend to go see it! We then spent the next day at the beach and then back to Brisbane!
We took tons of pictures and videos so please enjoy! In other news,we are staying in Brisbane a couple of days and then off to Byron Bay to dive with the sharks!!! We love and miss everyone!
Red Moo
Red Games!
Red Part 1
Red Part 2
Sunrise
Saturday, April 7, 2007
We Didn't Fall Off The Earth
We know it has been forever and a day since we have updated, but life in the city can become crazy and gives you no breathing room. We final got a little breathing room with a week off for Easter and now an update. School is school, no matter what country you live in. It has tests, projects, pointless paper, you know the list.However it is a bit of a reality check because we thought we are goning to Australia, how exciting!?!?! And it still is, but now its school and we cant use the excuse well we aren't from here. You either adapt or be left behind. We know that sounds harsh, but as is life. In happier news we are still having a great time here! We learn something new almost everyday(like the city shuts down for holidays) and the people are still amazing We of course we have a new addiction of Tim Tams aka the best cookies ever invented!It gets lonely at times and we become homesick, but in end we dont regret coming here!
Quick Update on our upcoming week. We are going on a mini road trip and then off to Byron Bay to dive. Hopefully Maria comes back with all her limbs and Cristalle doesn't get stung!
We miss everyone and hope you all have a HAPPY EASTER. HAPPY PASSOVER! Pictures enjoy!
Some More
Quick Update on our upcoming week. We are going on a mini road trip and then off to Byron Bay to dive. Hopefully Maria comes back with all her limbs and Cristalle doesn't get stung!
We miss everyone and hope you all have a HAPPY EASTER. HAPPY PASSOVER! Pictures enjoy!
Some More
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