Well not long now till we jet off again to Malaysia and Hong Kong. It is so hard to believe that it has been nearly 2 years since our last blog for our trip to the USA! We fly out from the Gold Coast with Air Asia with our first stop-over being Kuala Lumpur (KL). We will only be there for 3 hours before we are on another plane to Kota Kinabalu (KK). KK is the capital of Sabah which is the Malaysian State on Borneo. We will be in KK for 5 nights. From Sabah, we will be flying on to Hong Kong for 4 nights. Then from Hong Kong it is a flight back to Malaysia to the island of Penang for 5 nights. From Penang we have decided to drive back to KL ... read more

Today Dad and Karen were arriving here and Jake and I went into Whitefish to pick them up from the train station. We got there a bit early and the train was late so we went and found a Starbucks and chilled out for a while. The train pulled up just after 8 am and we met Dad and Karen as they got off. They had got the overnight train from Portland and had a great time looking at all the sights. We soon headed back to Bigfork and dropped all their gear off at our cabin and had a cupper and a chat. The girls were happy to see them and were telling them what they had been up to. Dad and Karen soon got settled and we headed down to the house to say ... read more

Today we were heading towards Bigfork and it was going to take about 4 ½ hours so we had brekkie in the hotel first. We had to get some dresses for the girls as Jake and Jen asked them to be flower girls for the wedding. So we went to Spokane Valley mall and got some nice outfits for them and some shoes. On our travels we crossed into Idaho State which we travelled for about an hour. Then we crossed over into Montana which took us over the Coeur D’Alene Mountains which were huge. We soon headed on to Bigfork and the road was really good until we hit the river. Most of the bridges are being worked on at the moment and the road works slowed us down a little. We soon exited the ... read more

Today we were heading towards Seattle so we had brekkie at our hotel and headed around the Olympic Mountains. The weather a bit drizzle but it was good to see some rain. As we were driving along a Deer ran across in front of the car was really cool to see. It was so fast we couldn’t even get a photo of it. Some of the drive took us along the coast were there was a lot of camping spots were there was a lot of people camped out. We soon stopped off in Forks and for all you Twilight fans it was really full on. We went into a few shops and were blown away by how much stuff there was. This town is what the books based around and it’s done wonders for the ... read more

Today we got up early and the kids were down stairs already having brekkie with Jens mum so we headed down stairs for a cuppa. Jake and Jen wanted to take us out for breakfast so we got ready and went down to a nice little cafe and had a real nice brekkie and food was good. After brekkie we carried on to the tram stop and caught the tram into town. The tram fare was really good $ 2.00 for a all day pass which was well worth it. We all hopped off not to far from Powells book store which is a massive store and it is four levels high.It had evey type of book you could think of they were used books and new books and they all ranged in price. We all ... read more