Mt. Beauty

More photos of our Easter weekend up at Mt. Beauty. It's Autumn here in Australia so the colours of the trees were electric.

and YES those are Sock Monkey mittens, courtesy of my dear niece Laurel.

Easter Weekend

Cam and I went up to Mt. Beauty, Vic for the Easter weekend. The weather couldn't have been nicer! Cam even got to fly his kite in the high-country.

Cam's Kite

We went back to the States for a few weeks for my parents' 50th Wedding Anniversary. I know, it was a big deal! It was also Cam's birthday while we were over there and I decided to get him his very own stunt kite, since he bought a little worthless kite here and he takes it with him everywhere and it doesn't get 2 feet off the ground. We went down to Barwon Heads, VIC Australia yesterday with Cam's brother Michael and Cam finally got to take his kite for its inaugural flight. It was so much fun... until he crashed it into me!

Our First Aussie Christmas

Things are starting to heat up down here and we're gearing up for a great first Christmas in Australia. We've got Cam's family coming here for Christmas dinner and we're even roasting turkey on the bbq!! The sun is shining and the palm trees are in their peak and to me (Sonja) it doesn't seem real at all! I'm really enjoying it though. We've been to a 'Carols by Candlelight' performance and we've driven around and looked at a lot of houses with Christmas light displays.

Guy on Didgeridoo in Melbourne

we found this street performer in Melbourne. His music was awesome.

Twelve Apostles

While Sally was here we drove down the coast to see some of the natural wonders of Australia. We stopped here at the Twelve Apostles.

I'm an Aussie resident!!

Here's me in front of the building that houses the Australian consulate in Auckland, New Zealand. In my passport is the infamous residency visa that has been in the making for the last 11 months! Now the hard part begins with all the paperwork I get to do here to become a legal resident - bring it on!!
It was VERY blustery in Auckland when we were there. But I LOVED it!!