Hello everyone! Welcome to our final blog, and we have a lot to catch up on. Well, we had another couple days in Mooloolaba, we met the girls on Thursday morning and enjoyed another round of surfing with them, then on Friday we had our opening mass with the church and hung out with lots of the Canadians there, including Archbishop Smith. This was also the day we went to the Australia Zoo! We all got free face painting! And we enjoyed the Crocosseum show where we also saw Terri Irwin (Steve Irwin's wife) and enjoyed the many animals there. We [View Full Entry]

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Cheers from Caloundra!!!!! We are currently writing to you in the company of Jordan and AJ, two of our WYD crew from Spruce Grove who are with us at our host family's house. We are staying in Mooloolaba, which is about 20 minutes from our host parish, Our Lady of the Holy Rosary. The rest of the kids are in 3 other homes in Caloundra. We met the kids yesterday at about 1, after all of them missed at least one flight from Sydney, and two of them missed TWO from Sydney. But they all made it ok. It's been raining [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone!!!!!!! How was everyone's Canada Day? I hope it went swimmingly. Thanks for all the birthday wishes, emails, and facebook messages, and also a big happy birthday (belated) to Marilyne! Well we are now in Hervey Bay, Queensland, after our LAST long bus ride!!!!!! 13 hours and overnight. YUCK. But we are here, and its wonderful and warm! We last left you in Airlie Beach, which we thoroughly enjoyed. We spent that day relaxing by the lagoon, sunning, swimming, and shopping. We both picked up some surf shorts for our surfing adventures coming up. Then we hopped on our bus [View Full Entry]

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Ahoy maties! Welcome to Airlie Beach, where the surf is warm, the coral is shallow, and the sun is SMOKING! Here you will discover your Canadian friends lying on the beach, kayaking the Whitsundays, and eating some tasty bacon! We last left you in Cairns, where we were going on a snorkeling trip onto the Great Barrier Reef on a great big catamaran. Well, this was a trip we won't soon forget. We boarded the ship, filled out our "we won't sue if we die" forms, and headed on our way. We took an introduction to diving, but decided it was [View Full Entry]

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Hey guys! We made it to OZ!!!!!!!! It is a GREAT feeling to walk outside and not realize it because the temperature outside is as nice or nicer than the controlled inside. We got here late last night after a bumpy landing! We last left you on our first full day in Christchurch. Well, the next day we took a bus to Akaroa for our harbor cruise to see some pretty sites. AND LET ME TELL YOU they were pretty! Akaroa is a town with a giant harbor, in fact Akaroa means "long water" in Maori. We stopped at a beach [View Full Entry]

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Hello you much warmer Canadians! It's been a chilly couple of days here in New Zealand. First we arrived in Mount Cook with a light dusting of snow on the ground, nothing we couldn't handle... then... duh-dun-dunnnnnnnnn! The next morning, we woke up to.... 3 inches of that white stuff that we THOUGHT we had left behind in Canada! It had been raining when we went to sleep, pouring in fact, which quickly turned to a blizzard that continued throughout the day. It was snowing so much the day we left, we could barely see the mountains across the way for [View Full Entry]

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Hello everyone! Currently we are in Mount Cook National Park. The town of Mount Cook is about 150 people at best. And.. one restaurant. And..... its chilly! Yesterday we went to Milford Sound on a day trip. It was sooo amazing both on the drive there and back and the amazing cruise we took. We left at 7 in the morning and the drive there took 5 and a half hours with several stops along the way for photos. THe veiws were absolutely incredible. Words cannot describe the beauty so we will just attach photos. We seen a Kea bird on [View Full Entry]

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Hellloooooo Canada! And surrounding areas... Well, we have arrived in the adventure capital of the world. Last time on Kim and Dennis Down Under..... We got to Franz Josef and saw a great big glacier. It was very chilly at night there, but we managed. In fact, the second night we were walking around in shorts and sandals because everything else was in the wash! People gave us crazy looks, especially the ones burrowed in parkas, toques, and mitts. Haha, you thought we were just brave, but nope, just out of clothes! Franz Josef was really neat. We took a bus [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone! Well, here we are in Nelson, although we leave for Franz Josef early tomorrow morning. We had a great two days here. After arriving on the ferry from Wellington which was a very cool ride, we took a bus from Picton to Nelson and arrived around 3. We got into our hostel and I was just settling down to call Dads for Father's day when in walked Lisa and Ashley! It was great to see some familiar faces and we exchanged stories as we walked around the town and shopped a bit. We also decided to book a tour [View Full Entry]

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Hey guys! Last we left you we were in Auckland and heading to Wellington. Well, we made it. After a 10.5 hour bus ride. We saw sheep, Mount Doom (from Lord of the Rings!!!), and a great big lake that is actually a volcano crater that exploded 26 000 years ago called Lake Taupo. Wellington, is beautiful. Our hostel sits right on the ocean, and when we were walking to it late last night, (ok it was 6:30, but it gets dark here REALLY EARLY!) we asked for directions and nice woman drove us to it! It is great here. The [View Full Entry]

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