Life as an Aggie: Australia!!

Guess what!! I'm finally updating with my blog with my summer study abroad!! I have so many pictures that I really have just kept putting it off. But my wonderful smart mother gave me a great idea...do it in parts!

Part 1: Australia

This picture is in Cairns. Our first destination. We had been flying for about 24 hours and as you can see I look like it. But Ally and I were tent-mates and so we had to show off our wonderful job of setting it up. We spent 5 nights here and it was pretty great. They had a swimming pool (but being winter the pool was freezing) and they had showers and free internet. It was a great place! We made friends with the local YSA ward and spent a lot of time with them, including going to Harry Potter 7 Part 2 with them.

While in Cairns we went to the Rain forest Station. It was great! We got to pet kangaroos and Kola Bears. They were so fun and I really was temped to bring some home.

I think that Dingos are so beautiful!! Unfortunately their really mean so we could only look but that's alright I enjoyed looking.

Can you see the baby?!

This is Jack The Ripper. He was HUGE!! They call him that because they tried to mate him with 12 yes count it 12 females and he killed them ALL!! He's an angry guy...so don't mess.

I learned how to throw a boom-a-rang...I'm no good but it was still fun.

On one of our drives to a beach we stopped at this beautiful view. There were some great views!

We are now in the Outback of Australia. To be honest a lot of it looks a lot like Southern Utah. But it was still pretty awesome! This is Katie Jensen and I

Oh and I got to ride a Camel. It was so fun! You couldn't help but smile and laugh while you were up there.

Finally some warmer weather for our hikes.

this is Katie, McCall, Emma, and me

Emma, Me, Kirsten, Katie, Kate, and Ryan

Cute Jessie

This place is an ancient place that fathers use to take their sons to learn about the female anatomy...kind of like maturation.

Left to right: Neeley, McCall, Ally, Me, Emma, Katie, Kate, Kirsten

Uluru Rock. This is in the evening with the sun setting. It was great to see it then!

We are now in the Blue Mountians

The weather was rainy and chilly, but then again it was winter there so that's understandable.

The 3 sisters....

This is on a sky coaster. We rode across this amazing valley that was just COVERED in trees. So amazing!!

They had this funny ride that we went on. None of us knew what was happening we just followed the instructions to get on. We were really confused with the cage like atmosphere. We were wondering how we were going to see the view...turns out that's not the point. It's one of the steepest incline in the world. We got to ride down in and it was pretty exciting!

This is a hike we did called the Natural Pass. It took us about 2 hours I think and was so awesome and beautiful!!

Now arriving in Sydney!

I've always wanted to see Sydney so this was pretty exciting for me. We got a lot of free time here so we got to really explore the city. It's an amazing place...but we sure did stand out in our quick dries.

On the train to go see the opera house with McCall.

The opera house. Not great weather but we got our quick dries so we were fine!

After walking ALL day we decided we need to eat. We wanted to eat somewhere local and different. We asked a few people and they would keep telling us that it was only a 10 min. walk that way. After about 20 min. we would ask someone else....they would do the same thing. Finally someone gave us good directions...kind of. They sent us down this dark Alley. We were a little skeptical at first but then we came across this awesome Italian place. It was really delicious and the people loved us because there were so many of us (well only about 10 from the group) and we were all in big rain jackets.

It was the highlight of the day.