A very much needed photo update!

I'm not quite sure why the formatting is so weird on this post, sorry if it makes it difficult to read!

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Weekend in Renmark and road tripping home.















We visited the World's Biggest Orange! Be Orange!
You can never escape Wartburg College.


















Monash Adventure Park: Me, Julie, Tariana, and Ellie.



















Monash Adventure Park: Gabby, Tariana, Me, and Ellie























We crossed into Victoria for a photo!


















Me and Ellie at the "How's the Serenity" boat.
Watch the Australian Film, The Castle, to get the joke.



















Me, Gabby, Ellie, Julie, and Tariana standing in a dry fountain... it was a gift from Renmak's sister city in China.


















Evidence that I ate Kangaroo!

It was yummy!

Bron, Brian, me, Tariana, Gabby, and Ellie out for coffee after dinner in Renmark. Ellie and I stayed and Bron and Brian's house while we were away.





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Easter Bilby

In Australia they changed from having an Easter Bunny to an Easter Bilby.
This is a chocolate bilby, it is similar to a bunny, only uglier!





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Hilary and my adventure to Grange Beach!





















Catching some rays... LOVING IT!

I was eating rice cakes... this was just prior to being attacked by the seagulls!
For real. haha.

Hil and me with hair blowing all over!

Me and Hil, we asked someone to take this pic... the man was there with friends that just arrived from Canada! They came from ice and snow too!

I found a dead crab... yuck!

I <3 Stephen

:)

Somebody was wind surfing and had to walk their kite thing back up shore to catch more waves.






















The water was so beautiful!



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Magill Interpretive Trail
















This is the path at the interpretive trail... at every station there was information about Adelaide and the surrounding areas.

















I almost fell off the bridge trying to get this photo!
haha.


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Play group!

Here are a few pictures of some of the kids that come to the playgroup I help with every Wednesday.















Play group... Jack one one of his sisters, Bella.

Play group... Bethany, Sophie, Scarlett, and Ellen.

Me and Bethany at play group, she is the cutest baby- ever.


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Coffee and the city.














Macchaitos in Australia are not the same as Starbucks in the US. They are more like an espresso shot with a bit of froth on top. A new experience.

Sipping on my macchiato. haha.

40s swing dance night.

Me and El hanging out with Hil and Matt in the city one evening.

El and me dressed up!

We were a bit confused because the stairs disappeared!






















Showing off my skinned knees in a dress!

I tripped running... yep.

Lucky 7 (the 40s swing band) it is kind of hard to see the dancers in this picture, they were really good!


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Free Pancakes

At Cafe Primo they give you a free pancake with every entree... yummy!

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The Valentines Flowers Stephen sent me!
I have the best Fiance EVER!
:)

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Trying a few new things.

This was chocolate covered honeycomb... not too bad.

Chocolate covered gummy worms... an interesting thing.

Me and Hil eating the chocolate covered gummy worms.

I don't have a pic of me eating turkish delight... let's just say it wasn't a favorite of mine. :)


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A couple of Random pictures from the city of Adelaide.

Just for you, Amanda Jane :)
American Apparel in Adelaide, Australia... who knew!?

This statue is often referred to "Adelaide's Balls." People were shocked that we didn't see them when we were in the city. It took us intentionally looking for the balls to spot them.


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Helen, Peter, and I spend a 13.5 hour day driving south of Adelaide so Peter do a few counseling sessions and Helen could do some networking... here are a few photos along our way!

Best fruit stand.... EVER! :)

This is Aggie from the fruit stand. He is Greek and knows how to grow some amazing fruit! I'm holding up the free peach he gave me for being such a good customer. haha.

This is the great Murray River. It is the main water source for most places in Australia. As I mentioned in a previous post, if it stops running or gets too low Adelaide and many other cities won't have any source of water.

This is a picture of some of the landscape on our way up to Berri, it is beautiful!

It might be kind of hard to see, but part of the drive is very rocky land. This makes the land almost useless because people can't really live here.

Beautiful view!

We took the car ferry across the Murray River on our way to Wakierie and Berri.

The highways were lined with trees, but after about 20 feet from the road most of it was dirt and rock.



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Lamingtons

Lamingtons, and Australia dessert. Di from the Magill office made these for us... they were very yummy!



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Cricket Game!

After the game... this is a portion of the trash on "the hill." Starting in May Australia is going to stop using plastic bags when you buy things from the stores, I wonder if they'll do anything about all the plastic beer cups... it is highly unlikely.

The cricket field... the game goes from 2:30pm to 9:30 pm!

Hil and I decided to have a familiar American experience, we got hotdogs and chips (fries) at the cricket game.

This is photo of us sitting on "the hill" at the cricket game. As you can see there are a few security guards needing to keep some very excited fans under control.