Monday, June 25, 2012

A few of my favorite things!

Favorite moments; Ben and Hannah exploring Australia:

14 hour plane flight over!
7 plane flights!
50-50 chance of landing in Melbourne- what!?

Melborne
First hostel experience for me
Ben tried vegemite at breakfast :P
Bubbles got left in the room! Fun!
Which train??? Door closing between us! Nooooo...
Coming across professional footy players!
AFL game!
Great ocean road exploration
Koalas!
Parrot landing on my head
Frisbee in the very warm south pacific ocean!
Hanging out with the gypsies
Playing: live with, sleep with, cliff
Loud party hostel dorm the night we got 4 hours of sleep-grog!
Turn signal on the "wrong" side=wipers!!

Farm moments:
Meeting Jon at the airport! Hooray!
Jon; 'nuf said
Mothers Day heart pancakes for Kerry with berry sauce..yum! Oatmeal pancakes and Jon's hunger visit on our day off because Karin was working- first one was fried oatmeal! Then they were delicious :)
Comedy festival: vajim-jam, spooning, Kerry's boot! Shoulda put a ring on it!
40+ utes
Crystals in Karin's home & present for Jon!
Jumper on guitar
Poker X3 ;) and "cash box" :/
Magpies at the window-the one in the backyard urn...
Footy in the backyard! Footy in the face :P
Footy with Jon and Jock and Jon got it through Kerry's heart plants!!
The night Ben had ginger lemon zinger tea..or was it the white chocolate fudge..and sung songs til he fell asleep!
Chasing round the house while brushing teeth..popping out of the office!
Epic games of Ninja!
Rooibos-earl grey tea
"Don't touch yanks!"
Fried rice
Samosas
Hannah, will you eat everything? "mMmmmh"
What about Christmas Mince? Yuk!
Smoothies and wraps lunch
Bickies and white chocolate power bars: the deep freeze goodies :)
Milks in fridge: 1. soy, 2. soy w calcium, 3. oat, 4. coconut, 5. rice (!!!)
Magpie scarf find! And other scores!
Laundry in Kerry's front yard
Tennis!! Playing and watching :)
Warm plates in the micro!
Organizing :D
Huge pink/orange full moon!
Sunsets..
Hours sittin around on the module builders
Family Feud
Driving a tractor!
Rakes (ghetto rake)
Building my socks into the cotton!
In the module builder at night under the stars-so beautiful and soft!
No horsing around by the module builders!
The fire! Ben saves the day!
Praying manti
Photos galore
Learning to drive a stick
Cubby house <3
Banana-white choc muffins and Anzac biscuits
Finish Line!!


In Cairns:
Kerry's email: "are you behaving?"
Brisbane airport breakfast toast-haha ;)
Random shots into the wastebasket!
Ping-pong!
The tour bus! And new music :)
Waterslide down a rock!
Swimming under Milla Milla falls!
Unexpected ferry crossing mid road trip to port douglas
Most awesome playground(s) EVER! Includes sign language walls and all wheelchair accessible.
Eating green ants!
Stung by a jellyfish!
Seeing a manta ray!.
Swimming with real live sea turtles! (It still seems so surreal like I was just in an aquarium..) But we were swimming in the waves of the ocean!!
Beautiful botanical gardens and yummy cafe!

Blue mountains:
Harry's incredibly beautiful cabin
Getting locked out on the top balcony! Dumb.
Amazing bookstore!
Fairyland waterfalls
Ben's new home on the rock
Doors going nowhere(?)
Fairyland restaurant/common grounds cafe
The red parrots!
Q&A - great show, great topics (religion and science, racism, aliens and penises :)
$50 worth of snacks for the plane!

Sydney:
The Rocks <3
Sydney opera house and Harbor bridge
Crystal Chandelier
Vivid! Light show at the harbor
Playing Snake -on a building!
Bad street performer making me participate
Tangoing in the square!!!
Movie theater with curtains :)
Relaxing at Steph's
Sumoku
Party with Stephie! UNO :D
Asking Ben to hug everyone back in the states..his response: yes, I'll hug the first person who asks me for money on the street and tell them it's from Hannah.

Todman avenue
Writin in the sky!
Epic life conversations
Barely making the bus to the airport! Making a list of our favorite moments
Bye Ben ("I know you like to do your own thing but this is an international airport...)
Hannah's first solo bus experience in Sydney...wrong end of town!
Building wonderful friendships!

1 comment:

  1. Sounds like a real adventure Hannah...may they continue. Safe travels my friend. GB

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