Saturday, June 30, 2012

Day 3 - Brisbane

It was quite the early morning to get to the airport to catch our flight to Brisbane.  The students all agreed that after the 15 hours of flying to get here, the little flight from Sydney to Brisbane was nothing (1.5 hours).   After loading up in the coach we were off to Lone Pines Koala Reserve to see some of Australia's animals.  We had the opportunity to hold the koalas and get our picture taken.  All the students have individual pictures, so none will be posted here.

 We also got to feed the kangaroos and even saw a couple of female roos with joeys in their pouches.  All the students thought that was pretty cool.





The reserve also had other animals like the wild dingos - both arctic and desert, platypus, wombat and Tasmanian devil, as the highlights.

From there we were the guests of honor at a BBQ.  Our hosts were the families of a local paddling club, which is different from rowing as it is done on outriggers.  After supper, they had some music for us where we all showed off our dancing skills.  I hope we did America proud.  The hosts were fantastic and asks lots of questions of the students and were genuinely interested in what we had to say.  After eating and dancing, it was time to get settled in our new hotel, so we will be ready for tomorrow's adventure at Underwater World. 

More pictures still to come, but it is getting late and we all need to get some zzzzz's....
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4 comments:

  1. UnknownJune 30, 2012 at 9:23 AM

    Kathi,

    Please thank all the leaders for doing such a great job of letting us know as much detail as possible..Thank you for posting pictures!..Hugs and kisses to my Samantha!

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  2. AdrianaJune 30, 2012 at 11:59 AM

    Thank you for letting us know how they are doing every day.
    Please let Daniella know we are very happy for her and we love her too much!

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  3. UnknownJune 30, 2012 at 3:10 PM

    Thanks for taking such good care of our babies! Tell Justin that I miss him and hope he is having a great time!!!

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  4. UnknownJuly 1, 2012 at 5:07 AM

    Hi Kathi, Thanks a lot for all you and the leaders are doing with the kids. It looks like you all are having such an amazing time. We appreciate the daily updates and can hardly wait until we can see you on Skype. How is Blake B. doing? He has a Epi Pen in his backpack in case he becomes allergic to any foods. Please tell him his parents said hello and we love him a lot. Thanks again.

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