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Hey hey everyone! This is me finally posting on the rescuers blog. I have had my accounts of our travels written and typed for over a week now, since the beginning, but the boys kept the whole blog thing a secret from me and just informed me of its existence. So if you were waiting for my “two cents” then you can blame them. Ok, Fine you got me… that’s not true. For those of you who know me well, computers and I have a love hate…we don’t really get… I have never really come to… I HATE computers. So there it is. Just like Jesse’s Aunt Sandy I don’t really know what bloging is but due to an insurmountable amount of family and mostly peer pressure, I am doing it : ) Ok departing from negative town, I really do want to keep you all updated on how it’s going down under because I love you all and want you to know I am safe, sound, and having a great time. Also because I love you all I hope this will give us a chance to keep in contact… So when you read this please say hi in whatever form of communication you can whenever you get the chance because I miss everyone already and am dying to know how life is moving along back home.

Down to the happenings. As you probably know already our opportunities to use the internet are slightly limited so I haven’t even read most of our blog. I have no idea what the boys have written so in an attempt to keep you from falling into a boredom induced coma I will begin on our second Friday in Sydney.

It was a b-e-a-utiful morning, I really would know this time because I actually had to wake up before 10 or11:00. I was up and at-em’ by 7 so I could go to an interview. (The interview went well. It was a sort of marketing place but it was more like fundraising for charities. Ok-ish. I am still awaiting their call so more on that if I work there.) So after that was all done we decided enough was enough… it was time to sight see. Brian was the first to find a really neat place to go in one of our “make your trip in Australia the very best trip it can be” type books. We were off to THE POWERHOUSE a huge interactive museum all about the history of invention. It turns out we are all a bunch of nerds and were super psyched to go. Well we got there and…. It was SO lame. It was not large and if you call pressing a little button and listening to someone talk at you interactive… then it was definitely that. At one point there was an “interactive” video thingy that taught you things about chocolate and then dropped some from a tube for you to eat. After listening to five minutes of stuff I have already forgotten it gave me ONE teeny tiny mini sized chocolate chip. Nice. Anyway, there are always positives. We did get to see some really sweet highlight clips from the history of rugby (Dad you woulda loved it, you and your highlights). Also I learned:

-The cool shell shaped roofing from the Sydney Opera House was all designed from one dome. So if you took all the pieces down they would fit together like a puzzle to make a dome. It’s sweet.

-86% of the world’s resources are used by only 20% of the world’s population. I am contributing far too much to that large number. I take shorter showers now.

- Rugby players have horrendous penmanship.

… and that’s about it. At least they had comfy carpeting. So as you can tell it was not quite as educational as we had anticipated but we got out there and saw something new, so for that I am proud.

Saturday was nice. All four of us had a pleasant stroll to Bondi Beach and spent a good part of the day laying in the sun and playing in the waves. It really is awesome to live so close to so many amazing beaches. Location, location location.

It is now Sunday afternoon and we are all kinda lounging around relaxing before a week full of interviews.

That’s it for now. Thanks for reading, I hope it was semi interesting, and I’ll hopeful be posting again soon. Please let me know how things are going at home and do tell everyone you think might be interested about the blog... I haven't told too many people about it yet, shocking I know... but really please do : )

Miss you and hope you guys are all doing swimmingly.

-Erin