To Australia or Bust!

I (Sonja) am in the midst of applying for a visa to Australia. And there is A LOT of paperwork! I've got about 100 pages to fill in plus providing telephone records, pictures, and declarations that our relationship is genuine and continuous. Because we've been in Russia for so long I've had to get a police check from here and back in the States.

This is an exciting and stressful process. We plan to go to Moscow this month for an interview with the Australian Embassy. Then we wait for up to 10 months. We should be ready to move down to Australia in February 2009.

Tere tulemast (Warmly Welcome) to Tallinn!

We spent the last two weeks in Estonia. We had incredible weather and an incredible time. We stayed outside of Tallinn in a hostel and we traveled into the city center to see the Old Town and to go to all the museums. While we were there they were having a Tallinn Old Town Days festival with all kinds of cultural concerts and markets. We had a blast.

We rented a car for a weekend and drove around Estonia (its not a very big country). We went to the beach, to the national park, castle ruins, and checked all kinds of country side. Once again Cam took some awesome pictures and once again I waited (not so patiently) while he was taking those awesome pictures.

View of Alexander Nevskii Russian Orthodox church
from Kiek in de Kok tower/fortress.


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Olde Town Square, Tallinn


Huge bull statue near an old castle. We don't know why ??


At the Rakvere Medieval attraction at an old castle. I think we wore the kids tunics, oops. We had fun playing with the sword and shield replicas and checking out the torture chamber.


Estonia's National Park (Lahemae) boasts a swampy bog, woopee!