Hey again, right now I am in the Washington DC airport waiting to board my next flight to Ottawa to see my family. Wanted to give a short account of the past couple of days of my trip. I left off last on day four of my trip having just met up with Brandon in Simi Valley, one of the vallies just outside of LA. The next day was the first night of Channukah! Brandon’s comes from a large jewish family and they invited me to come to their big family get together with lots of food, relatives, and gifts, and [View Full Entry]

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Hey Just thought I would make a blog so I won't forget what I have done on my Winter Break 2008. Here is the trip plan: December 17-23 Visit LA area: Stay in Ventura county and visit Patagonia the first couple of days .then move into LA to visit my friends Sydney and Brandon. December 23-26 Fly into ottawa hang out with family and see grandma. Bringing all the ski gear with and hoping that weather permits. Dec 26-29: Go to pennsylvania to visit uncle richard and aunt maria for the last couple nights of channuka and hopefully go skiing. December [View Full Entry]

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Hey, I am now back in the States but I just thought that I would wrap up with one last blog of my Australia and Hawaii trip. The last couple of days in Australia consisted mostly of packing and wrapping up a couple of last things. We sold the Saab to a car wrecking business in Geelong ran by a cool Italian family. Also went up to Melbourne to see Shannon and Jen one more time. Dan and Melissa left on their trip of the rest of Australia. They are heading up along the Gold Coast and then the Great Barrier [View Full Entry]

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Hey! Andrew and I just finished our last day of work this Friday! We said bye to all of the co-workers we had got to know well over the past 10 weeks. They were from all over the world including Iran, France, England China, Japan, Turkey, and India. Also we went down the winery to say bye to the Manager Nyall and get a couple of bottles from the award winning Waurn Ponds Winery. That night Shannon, Jen and two of their friends came down from Melbourne and our French friends from work had a last celebration in our awesome beach [View Full Entry]

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I just had some free time and I realized that I forgot to account for a pretty significant event! Two Wednesdays ago on the 8th of July there was an explosion at the labs! I was working at my desk upstairs when it happened. It was a really loud boom that actually shook the upper level. First everyone up here just froze and looked around, then about 20 seconds later the evacuation alarm went off. Everyone in the building had to evacuate across the street. It kind of reminded me of the fire drills we used to have back in middle [View Full Entry]

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This past weekend we took the ferry from Queenscliff to Sorrento. This is across the big bay that Melbourne is on. Andrew, Daniel, our Auzzie friend Taz, and I took the trip on Saturday. On the way to the ferry there Taz took us on a bit of a tour through Breamlea, Barwon Heads, and Point Lonsdale. There were a lot of good beach and rocky breaks around there that we hadn’t checked out before like Bancorra, and 13th beach. I got to see a fairy penguin at Point Lonsdale… a dead one at least, but it was still cool. [View Full Entry]

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Hey again, time for another blog update. Last time I made an entry it was right before we all went on a trip down the Great Ocean Road. We left early in the morning and eventually made it down to the 12 Apostles. They are rock formations that are standing tall in the middle of the ocean. There used to be 12 of them but with erosion there are only about 6 or 7 now. They looked amazing, we got to see them around sunset which made them that much more impressive. I’ll attach a picture of them to this entry. [View Full Entry]

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Hey again, it has been a couple of weeks since my last post. I’ve done a lot and I figured it was about time to set up an update. First of all, the injury that I had while I was surfing in Sydney turned out to be what I suspected, a ruptured distal bicep. Two Tuesdays ago, the 17th of June, I had surgery to repair the injury. The procedure was to make about a 3 or 4 inch long “Z” shaped cut on the inside of my elbow, peel the skin back, grab the end of the tendon and then [View Full Entry]

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This past weekend I spent 4 days in Wollongong visiting Justin. Justin and I have been friends since elementary school and basically learned to surf together. He has spent the past 4 months in Wollongong going to university there. We went surfing a couple times every day, and each night we just hung out with his roommates and chilled out at his place. We surfed a world class point break called Sandon Point when it was way overhead and macking. I only had my 6’0 board and needed a bit bigger board to drop into those huge ones so I only [View Full Entry]

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Hey again everybody, just sitting around the house and thought I would post another update on some of the things that I have been doing. We moved into our new place last Tuesday morning! The house is amazing! It is located about a 5 minute walk from a couple of great surf breaks and about a 2 minute walk from a bus stop in a little town called Jan Juc. Jan Juc is right beside Torquay and is a lot like Oak Island where I grew up. It is a small beach town that is fairly quiet during the winter. The [View Full Entry]

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