Day tweleve: August 19, 2010: Today we left Melbourne for Phillip Island for the begining of wedding festivities. There was a mix up with the bus that was supposed to pick everyone up at the hotel. They were supposed to be there at 10am, finally showed up at 12:15pm. So we got off to a late start and did not have time to go see the penguins before getting to the resort. Oh well. So far today has been a do nothing day at the resort, which is fine, as I am a little...

Day Eleven: August 18, 2010: Today everyone who was in Melbourne for the wedding went on the Great Ocean Road Tour. A 12 hour day (yawn!). The bus left at 8 am and it's a 2.5 hour drive out of the city and suburbs out to the coast where the Ocean Road is. The Road goes all along the southern coast. The tour drove the road, stopping at all the tourist places and spots for photo oppertunities. The highlights were: 12 apostles rock formations, Loch Ard Gorge , feedi...

Day Nine: August 16, 2010: Our last day in Cairns. We went for a rainforest tour. We stopped at 4 places. The first was the Mamu rainforest canopy walk. Second was Josephine falls, there they had a natural waterslide that ended into a freshwater pool. It was so much fun to swim there. My camera strap broke and my camera fell to the bottom of the pool. I couldn't quite swim down to the bottom to get it. Luckily our amazing tour guide was a good swimmer, we were a...

Day five: August 12, 2010: Off to Cairns early in the morning, the start of a bad morning, our flight was at 6am. Unfortunately after getting off the train we went to the wrong terminal and ended up missing our flight. We got on another flight which was leaving from the international terminal (stopped in Cairns, continuing to Japan), so we had to take a taxi all the way to the other airport (the free shuttle wasn't running yet). Then Arthur's baggage was over wei...

Day 4: August 11, 2010: Today was our last day in Sydney. we went to the Toronga Zoo. we had to take the ferry out to the zoo, so we got to see the enitre harbour from the boat. Got a really close look at Dension Fort on our way there. What I learnt at the zoo: A puggle is not just a beagleXpug dog, but also a baby platypus! The zoo was awesome, lots of animals to see there. again another day of walking. we were all very tired when we got back. Eventhough we w...