Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Here are a mom and baby kangaroo that live in the Outback, We (the family I work for whose property this is) drove around in the back of a pick-up truck trying to find them and these were the first we got to get an actual picture of.  
Here is a Koala that was sleeping at the wildlife park we went to right before we left the Outback. We kept petting him and he didn't wake up but I don't think he was dead just a heavy sleeper.
This one was probably the cutest because he was awake and looking at us. 


I was telling Alice and Joel I had this dream the other night where we played a drinking game when the family got together. It was a great drinking game because it involved dessert. Everyone had a dessert with them and whenever you had to drink you had either yours and/or someone else's dessert and then you had to pass your dessert to the next one having to take a drink. And we were drinking some very fancy drink but I can't remember much about it. Mom had this chocolate cheesecake that looked so good and it had a special chocolate frosting too. But one weird thing that happened was that we played with this very country guy from Mississippi who kinda cheated on the deserts. He made strawberry walnuts pancakes but tried to disguise it as a bundt cake. And they tasted weird too.

I had some kangaroo and it was really good. And I ate some food that was grilled with barbeque sauce and I ate it just fine and even enjoyed it. A big step for me. 

So on a serious note which feels a little strange because I usually don't bring things like this up online but we have been talking about the Holy Spirit at church and after a day of feeling so mad at myself for something I did I realized that feelings of guilts were just kinda consuming me and making me feel like less of a person. And I kinda think now that guilt is like an evil spirit that Satan wants to use to slow us down and make us feel defeated in our relationship with God and in life. So I just prayed for awhile asking God to remove this spirit of guilt I have had for so long and I've been freed. I'm sure that is something God has wanted to free me from for a long time.  So just something I'm experiencing here and and something that excites me. I'm also trying to deal with my silverware issue. I still hear it all but I try to focus on other things. 

Oh so I'm running 4 kilometers and I'm going to try to go 6 when I go running this evening. I'll let you know if I make it. 


Thursday, October 9, 2008

Lunch at the Skybury Coffee Plantation and Restaurant 

Feeding Wallabies in the rainforest
Seeing the Rainforst from a skyrail, although that was one we just passed

The Great Barrier Reef



Hi there, I have done a lot since I last wrote. I'll just write a few of the highlights. I got to go to the Great Barrier Reef and to the Rainforest which were both around the city of Cairns (pronounced cans). So on the day I went to the rainforest, I was on a tour with about 13 other people and I think there were maybe 4 of us under 40, and then a couple in their forties and all the rest were retired but everyone was really fun. There were multiple conversations (at least 4) during the day about how hard technology is and how young people are lucky to learn what to do  with it when they grow up. The second time this came up was after I "fixed" a camera for a couple, all I really did was make it stop zooming in, the couple thought it was broken because it couldn't focus. We all ate lunch together at this Coffee Plantation we had a tour of. The lunch came with the tour and it was pretty good, and then the coffee ice cream for desert along with a mocha. 

Then here in Sydney I got to go the Taronga Zoo, Opera House, and Botanical Gardens.  These were all next to each other so I did them all on Wednesday and it was a LOT of walking but the gardens were really beautiful. There were also a lot of bats there. And you could clearly see them in the trees and hear them, which was kinda eery.

The beach has been nice, I actually ran 3 kilometers this week so I'm working to get to 4 now.  

Oh and I got to go the Max Brenner Chocolate bar and Cafe Restaurant. I had some dark hot chocolate there. It was like a "build your own" type thing and kinda complicated to explain but it was really good. 

I'm going to add some more pictures later.