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Trent Ashley - Trent & Ashley's Aussie Adventure

Trent & Ashley's Aussie Adventure Heading over to Melbourne, Australia in September to live permanently. Traveling to Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and the Cook Islands first! Can't wait!
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So we've had our first visitor! Allison came from Edmonton to stay with us for a few days and we had a great time! We celebrated her birthday with cake and pizza, went up the tallest building in the Southern Hemisphere (88 stories,) and did some exploring around the city. I've put some pictures up of our time together and of some landmarks throughout Melbourne. She left this morning to go to New Zealand, because the weather in Australia has just been crap lately. There was all kinds of flooding and rain and crazy windstorms all weekend, and it got down [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 24th 2008 | 61 Views | [diary=347979]

The pier across from our house
Standing on the pier
Tram rides!!

Good Day! So just a short update for you guys on whats been happening... We've been busy applying for jobs and getting things like Medicare and Tax Numbers completed. Last Friday we went to an International Rules match (which is a combo of soccer, rugby, and Aussie footy) at this MASSIVE stadium called the MCG. Then we headed over to the Crown Casino to walk around and check it out. Its massive too, and only about 5 minutes from our place. Then on Saturday we went out to a local pub, and then down to St. Kilda to check out a [View Full Entry]

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Published: November 4th 2008 | 61 Views | [diary=341454]

International Rules match
More International Rules
Us at the game

Hey everyone!! Hope you are all doing well!! So last weekend we went up to a mountain range about 3 hours from Melbourne called the Grampians. We drove our sweet ass ride up there (our 1998 Hyundai Excel) to visit with one of Trents dads friends, named Mark. He lives on an acreage near a small town called Pomonal. We had a great ride up, seen some kangaroos, and lots of birds, and arrived at Marks friday evening. He lives with his girlfriend, Sue, and her daughter. Its a very laid back place, not much to do except sit on the [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 25th 2008 | 141 Views | [diary=338238]

Mark's Place
Cockatoos!
Kangaroo Crossing

By Trent Ashley
October 16th 2008
Our New Home Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Melbourne
So we are finally in our BRAND NEW PLACE!!!! Completely loving it here!! It's in Port Melbourne, and we're living in an apartment building. Its a newish building, we're on the 2nd floor, and there is a pool. The good thing is that our patio goes right out on to the pool, so we don't have to walk through the hallways with wet swimmers on! We have 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms: perfect for guests! Today we went to Ikea and bought a whole bunch of new furniture: bedroom suite, spare bedroom stuff, lamps, kitchen stuff, dining room table. Trent is [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 16th 2008 | 73 Views | [diary=334991]

Our kitchen
Our living room & patio
Main bathroom

Hey everyone!!! So we've completed our first week in Australia. We arrived last wednesday, and are currently staying with Rohan and Leanne (Leanne is Trent's cousin.) The past week has been kind of a whirlwind! We've made numerous trips in to the city (right now we're about an hour outside of Melbourne city,) to find a place to live, go shopping, and visit with Trent's sister, Karyn. Karyn is wonderful and so knowledgeable about Melbourne, so she helped us in our search for a home. We found a place to live in Port Melbourne. Its a 2nd story apartment with a [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 9th 2008 | 48 Views | [diary=332454]


As promised, here are some more pictures from the Cook Islands!!! [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 4th 2008 | 96 Views | [diary=330871]

Beautiful beaches!!!
Soft Sand!
Fish EVERYWHERE!!!

Well the Cook Islands were GREAT!!! We had an excellent time, besides our little flight delay problem...but that was easily fixed by beautiful beaches and warm weather. As per the previous blog entry, we were delayed in LA for about 6 hours, and then had to be re-routed to Hawaii to pick up a new captain (not sure how we flew to Hawaii without a captain..hmm...) We arrived on the main island of Rarotonga at about 3pm, where they rushed us through customs and we got on the next flight to Aitutaki. Aitutaki is such a great place. We much prefer [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 3rd 2008 | 98 Views | [diary=330283]

Our broken scooter
The tire isn't doing so well!
The view from our room

So....Our flight got delayed out of LA to the Cook Islands because the Captain got sick. Hmm...So now we fly out at 5am tomorrow morning (Monday) and have to stop in Hawaii for a few hours to pick up a NEW captain. They put us up in the Sheraton Hotel and gave us $100 to order room service, so we ordered EVERYTHING on the entire menu. Literally..wings, burgers, milkshakes, salad. This screws us up though because we had a connecting flight in Rarotonga that we'll miss now. They are supposed to put us on a new flight in Rarotonga though... We'll [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 22nd 2008 | 40 Views | [diary=326181]


Hey Everybody!! So we're in Los Angeles. We arrived here on Wednesday night, went for some amazing sushi, and then prepared ourselves for some busy busy days ahead! On Thursday we went to Disneyland!!! Unfortunately, we do not have any pictures of Disneyland because we didn't feel safe taking the camera on all of the rides. Little did we know there were pouches on each ride to keep your camera safe! Oh well... We also checked out California Adventure, which was great. They have an excellent rollercoaster there. We also went on a ferris wheel where the cars moved while you [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 21st 2008 | 50 Views | [diary=325805]

Trent at Universal Studios
Me So Strong - at Universal
Trent & Smasher

By Trent Ashley
September 19th 2008
Las Vegas North America » United States » Nevada » Las Vegas
Oxygen Bar!!
Oxygen Bar!!
It was supposed to make us feel really good...
Welcome to fabulous Las Vegas!! Well sort of fabulous... Vegas went well. It's a pretty crazy place.. money is everywhere. It's amazing how much is spent on everything in the entire city. After a tearful goodbye to our families at the airport on Monday morning, we flew direct to Las Vegas. We had a bit of a struggle getting out of the airport as we had a ridiculous amount of extremely heavy luggage. We managed though, and took a cab to our hotel, The Las Vegas Hilton. We checked in and then went out to explore the city. LOTS OF WALKING!!!!!! [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 19th 2008 | 75 Views | [diary=325159]

At The Airport
Trent & Whoopi G
Monorail Station



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