Lego Men and Sharks

To do a little catch up, here are pictures from our first trip to the Sydney aquarium. I am tired tonight so there wont be a story just a little caption about some of the pictures. Enjoy!

To start off with, here is a picture a huge Lego man. For some reason throughout the aquarium there are heaps of Lego statues. I am not sure why they are at the aquarium but they are all really cool and totally impressive!

Forest and his best mate
Westly doesn't know what to think about the spider crab having longer legs than him.
I am not sure where Forest learned this pose.
One of the underwater tunnels this a dugong or it is often called the "sea cow"

an eagle ray-it is HUGE!!!

Westly is so cute! I just want to squeeze him!

Forest eating a snack while watching the sharks

This is Westly looking through the floor at the shark underneath (sorry it is blurry)Such pretty fish!last but not least: our photogenic friend.

Thanksgiving 2011

Even though Thanksgiving is not celebrated here in Australia we didn't want to miss out on the festivities and food. So today we will be filling our tummies with turkey and pies with some new friends and yesterday the boys and I did some Thanksgiving crafts to get into the holiday spirit!

This is Forest's hand-print-Mayflower And Westly's Mayflower.We also made these beauties

(I know you are all jealous of Forest and his effortless smile, don't you all wish you had such a photogenic kid) Westly and his footprint turkey

(Unlike his brother Westly LOVES the camera and starts smiling as soon as I get it out.)

The weather has felt the holiday spirit and has been raining/ pouring non stop for the past 4+ days! Wonderful! (I am not being sarcastic by the way, it really is wonderful!)

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

1st Day in Australia

Why Hello again. I know it has been forever since I last posted but we just barely got Internet at our new place (yes it took over 2 weeks) so give me a little slack.

Since I really have not posted much of anything since our move I am going to start at the beginning. Today's post is all about our very first day in Australia.

After our 15+ hour plane ride we arrived in Sydney at about 9am. We jumped into our taxi, all excited to get to our hotel and take a shower.

As you can tell from Westly's face, the boys were not too excited to be back in car seats. Well much to our disappointment we were not allowed to check into the hotel until 2 o'clock, so we had some time to kill. We headed out on a walk.
This is our first glimpse of any water.

Both boys were so happy to be able to run around and play.

From our Hotel we walked through the Royal Botanic Gardens which were beautiful!

All the wildlife is so unique here. The plant bellow is over 12ft. tall

look at this awesome tree!
Also the animals here are also very different. In the picture bellow are bats, big bats, there were HEAPS of them!

Can you see the bird in the tree? A lot of the birds here are very colorful and so beautiful. I am sure most Aussies think I am crazy since I get so excited and have to take a picture everytime I see a colorful bird. I wonder if I will every get used to seeing them?

Can you see the spot of color in the tree?Past the gardens we walked along the bay to the..Opera house!
A closer look! After all our walking we were all starving and so we grabbed a bite to eat a local cafe. Forest is making his "mm mm good face" in this picture.

After lunch we headed back to the hotel where we all showered and then napped for 14+ hours. It was such an exciting and fun day but it sure felt great to take a good long rest!