Lions, Tigers, Koalas oh my! All of the wildlife that exists in Australia is also contained in the Taronga Zoo. We are not really site-seers for zoos, but it was really impressive. You can take a quick ferry boat ride from Cirqular Quay to the Taronga Zoo. After being dropped off you just see trees and tons of a lot of green vegetation. We took the cable car to the top of the mountain after checking in to be able to walk down the hill and see the animals. The first animals you come accross (or at least the ones we [View Full Entry]

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After numerous months of planning and talking about going to Australia, we are finally here. The dreaded 15+ hour flight was something that we were amazed went so smoothly. After getting on the plane in San Francisco and a few glasses of wine we woke up in time for breakfast and just in time to land. We have been here for only a day and it is no wonder why so many people love this country. The people are friendly, weather is nice and the city is really easy to get around. We have already visited the famous Sydney Opera House [View Full Entry]

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Who knew the too of these would be related? We headed out of Paris yesterday for some change of scenery due to the weather being cold in the city center. Both of us have never been to the Champagne region, but it is very nice. There are numerous internet cafes here, but the keyboard now is so complicated. In order to finish a sentence with a period, you have to stop and shift a key. then every word that contains a letter a is in a completly different place than the american keyboards. so this very little has already taken ten [View Full Entry]

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What else can we say, there are thousands of bikes everywhere! The hotel staff told us that there are 750,000 inhabitants to the city of Amsterdam and over a million bikes! They have bike parking garages to park them in all over town. The drivers of cars look out in every direction to make sure they don't hit anyone. We attempted to get around on bike on Sunday however we only made one turn around the parking lot. The bikes in amsterdam generally don't have the brakes on the handle bars. You need to back peddle to stop! The bikes are [View Full Entry]

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Just arrived in Amsterdam after a few days in Bruges, Belgium. I have been doin so much sight seeing and experiencing of the culture that there has not been too much time to update where and what we have been doing on the internet. The internet availibility was in a shady convenient shop in Bruges, Belgium that I would rather have spent time somewhere else. We just checked into our hotel and it has an internet station that you stand up in - quite weird! Again, no availability to upload pictures...yet! As soon as I do, you will know. We are [View Full Entry]

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This needs its own entry. We ran accross this really interesting outdoor exhibit on Tuesday in Berlin. It is a traveling throughout europe of women who cut wood, or something like that when you translate it to english. The women all had muscles that we did not know existed. They were having ax throwing comeptitions, who could cut a chunk of wood the fastest and who had the cleanest cut with an electric saw. Quite different and interesting. Both of us where caught on tv and laughing and talking. We are not sure what station because the guy only spoke german [View Full Entry]

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On Monday we landed in Berlin after a few days in Budapest. What a great city so far. It feels like New York city, but very modern with new buildings all over and the feel of punk rock. It is really cool. Most people speak English and there is already a huge variety with the food selections. We were out till midnight last night walking by the remains of the Berlin wall. Plus it does not get dark here in Europe in the summer till after 10pm so you tend to stay up later. I will post those pics later too [View Full Entry]

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Budapest, Hungary is beautiful at night and it feels very much like Eastern Europe. Their local currency is the Hungarian Forinth and they tend to transfer money to the euro and then we translate it into dollars...which after all the math in your head, it was very expensive. The food was marginal at best so we relied on pizza for lunch and dinner. After 3 days of eating pizza we could not wait to board the plane to another city. We found out that the only people who eat out are the tourists and the locals never do so it was [View Full Entry]

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We traveled to Lake Tahoe for what we thought would be a great weekend of skiing. We arrived in South Lake Tahoe around 10 am from a long and early start to the morning from the Bay area. Plus it did not help that we were out late the night before - living it up like we were still in our early 20's. The weather forecast all week predicted snow / rain but mostly a snow mix for the weekend and I was quite excited for my first taste and what would probably be several falls on the Western ski slopes. [View Full Entry]

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Paris was wonderful and everything that it lives up to. I was not sure how to title this entry since I wanted to attempt to capture everything that happened on New Year's in Paris but also include other things that I just did not mention earlier. Sorry that it has taken me a few days to enter my last blog from my trip because I wanted to summarize a lot and I could not do it on the European keyboard. Paris Wow, what a wonderful city with culture, history, romance, beautiful places, people from around the world and oh yeah - [View Full Entry]

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