So many people have requested seeing pictures again after our incredible trip to Melbourne, Australia in Feb. that I'm putting some more on my journal. I sent out a day by day diary while we were gone and I'm so glad! We did so much and I'm glad I can now look back in my diary to see what we did on which days! I am still thinking about that trip 5 months later! (wow, has it already been FIVE WHOLE MONTHS?!). We planned, from the minute Kemp was born, that trip and it was something I looked forward to for so long! It went too fast, (we were there almost 3 weeks) ,but I look forward to going back and seeing some of the things I missed (not much, tho, thanks to my incredible TOUR GUIDES, Ashley and DAVID!)! Of course course, going in Feb., it was their summer so I've had TWO summers this year!.......Kemp was 15 months old and was the best baby on that LONG LONG flight (18 hours from start to finish!) I've ever seen. Not only that, I'll forever remember the moment when we walked down the terminal and saw Ashley's face. She ran and grabbed her (our!) grandson with tears of pure joy and happiness that it makes me cry even now, just remembering....The main reason we got to go to OZ was to see Brad's brother , Anthony get married to Karyn! Wow, what a wonderful way to end the trip (we left a couple of days after). I also LOVED going shopping with KRISTY (Brad's sis)---I finally found someone who likes to shop as much as I do! She was so sweet to take me around and let me go wild! AND, when Claire and Rebecca took me SCRAPBOOK SHOPPING! Can you believe it? I went scrapbook shopping in OZ! I went nuts over all their papers, etc (much more expensive there than here, however!). The first pictures, FYI, are on the flight (DUH!) but the little screen (like a t.v. screen attached to the seat in front of us)of details of exactly where we were , instantaneous, I loved watching (in between movies and Aussie T.V. shows! HAHA). Brad kept telling me, "Stop watching the flight plan! It goes by too slow!" (he was right!). Also, the pictures of PATRICK on the computer monitor was when we talked to him via SKYPE (if you don't know what SKYPE is, it's a FREE way to talk all around the world , and SEE each other---immediately! It was great checking in with Pat/Katie and Terry that way except trying to figure out what time it was at home! HAHA). So many wonderful things we did and saw---I'd need my diary to write it all again! But, one thing I DON'T Miss---DRIVING ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE ROAD! HAHA! I don't think I ever got used to that!. One thing I loved soooooooo much was getting to, FINALLY, see my KOALA'S and KANGAROOS! I fell in LOVE with Koalas! I even bought the cutest one, FOR ME, (see him in several pictures! Even in the cart at the airport!) that sits proudly on my bed. Yes, I sleep with TWO stuffed animals now---Terry and Kiki the Koala!....All in all, even after 5 months, the trip is etched so deeply in my mind and heart. I'm so thankful to God (and TERRY!) for sending me on that journey of my lifetime (next time "BIG T" has to go, too!). I love looking at my pictures (and have GOT to start "Scrapping" them!). I also can't believe how much KEMP has grown since February! WOW! (kids grow before your very eyes!) .....I want them on this journal so that I , myself, can visit my trip to Australia and always keep the trip close to my mind and heart! By the way, I know some AUSSIES are reading this right now and I throw you kisses and hugs and THANKS for making my visit one that will never be forgotten and always remembered. I love you, my AUSSIE FAMILY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
P.S. I WANT SOME SCONES AND CREAM! RIGHT NOW!!!!
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