Goodbye and thank you hawaii! Well we are packed with the limo picking us up at 6-30am tomorrow morning... We are at 8 bags but all are under 32 kilos!!! yeeeaaaahhhhhhh did it!! yyiippeeeee back home in oz saturday afternoon as we lose a day travelling home and back in port sunday afternoon wooohoooo!! then 90 loads of washing and unpacking for 6 months and we will have forgotten all about it!! only sent 5 parcels home from bahamas and hawaii as well and back to work on thursday hopefully if my jetlag has disappeared!! well see ya all later [View Full Entry]

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AWESOME is the only word to describe it... you go out about 1 mile off shore and get lowered into the water sitting on a scooter with a bubble head! it has air pushed into it from tanks and you zoom around the bottom of the ocean and feed the fish.. it was pretty cool [View Full Entry]

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Well we have the tshirts to prove it... however I will never do it again!! It was exhilarating but terrifying.. sharks were mainly galapagos sharks which ranged from 5ft to over 15ft and they were inches... make that millimetres away from you. I did not enjoy it at all and should have stayed on the boat with the other 2 women but couldnt let the side down!! so I sucked it in and did it.... never again.. freakin scary.. the cage looks like it is made out of like matchsticks with nylon ropes holding the cage to the boat which the [View Full Entry]

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went to sea life park today to swim with the sea lions and dolphins and attend the luau - it was amazing... too tired to type so here are some photos! [View Full Entry]

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Well we escaped from Vegas and really are over the glitz and glamour, sleaze and american accents!!! so nice to be back in Hawaii where the native tongue is very islander and not so american :-) no offense to any americans intended!!! we all love hawaii and we are staying on the 21st floor at the Sheraton Princess Kaulani which is across the road from waikiki beach ... and... sorry Dev!! the Hawaiian market village is just downstairs wooohoooo!! we are now up to 8 bags at 50 pounds each.. LOLOL the bell boys are earning their tips !! and building [View Full Entry]

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Nice and hot but way too many people!! Went and saw Gregory Popovich Comedy Pet Theatre on Friday which was excellent. We all laughed so much our ribs were hurting when we left! The things that guy makes cats do is incredible. It was a great show. Went and saw Cirque de Soleil KA last night and it was incredible.. never seen anything like it and would recommend everyone to go! we were all mesmerised the whole time. very expensive but worth it. no photos :-) cause sick of taking pictures! maybe next time! [View Full Entry]

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well the boys had a blast in Everson and we never saw them as they hooked up with the local kids and disappeared! Said goodbye to mum and dad and went down to seattle. went over the car ferry to some island which was cool which was where our motel was. it was nice and had a great view over puget sound. pungent sound of a morning cause it stinks!! water is black which is weird and it was freakin cold!! thank god for vegas!! crappy sleazy place but hot! mgm is nice and room is pretty good.. service is mmmmm [View Full Entry]

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just photos! [View Full Entry]

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Well have had 2 reasonably warm days for here - mid to high 20's but the rest has been cold and wet and drissly - like today! - so have been sitting on back desk studying and trying to get photos of the hummingbirds which flit around all over the place. seems when you pull a camera out they know and disappear but Dev persevered and got a few great shots! [View Full Entry]

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Took the boys up to Mount Baker today to play in the snow... James has never seen it before and Dylan only saw it for the first time on our last trip (me too!) here are the pics - got sunburnt/snowburnt?? lol and it was pretty warm up there but there were 30 foot snow banks around the sides of the carpark... very weird for the middle of summer!!! but hey it is america lol [View Full Entry]

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