Australia

This is actually from August, but since this is my first entry, I wanted to tell everyone about our trip to Australia.

We left for Australia on Thursday July 31, and arrived on Saturday morning. First we went to Sydney so Wesley could attend the world SETAC conference. He presented a poster on his research at the conference and won the award for best student poster. When he wasn't in meetings we saw some of the sights of Sydney. We attended church there on Sunday. We visited the National Maritime Museum where we toured four historic ships. We also visited the aquarium and Wildlife world, where we saw some of Australia's unique wildlife including kangaroos, koalas and crocodiles. We took a ferry to the Sydney Opera House and walked around the building, admiring the unique architecture.

On Friday we took a train to Brisbane, where we were able to spend some time with Wesley's brother and his family. We also spend a day at the Australia zoo, where we saw even more wildlife, and even got a chance to pet kangaroos and koalas. But, we didn't pet the crocodiles! Finally, on Thursday we flew back to California.

I'm back at work now, in my third school year as librarian. Wesley's busy with schoolwork, but we do manage to find time for fun once in a while, like Friday night when we played The Lord of the Rings Risk with some friends in our ward.