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World Wide Webb’s post 5.

Merry Christmas Mate! Christmas is quite different down under, first of all its HOT! Yesterday I saw two kids walking around in Santa Costumes only the coat was short sleeves and the pants were shorts! There are not as many Christmas trees or decorations, and several places are still open for business. Christmas seems to be more like a 4th of July celebrations except Santa still comes and Children are still very excited about their gifts! We ate Christmas Lunch at a local restaurant and again it was delicious! I hope everyone is having a very Merry Christmas and that you are all having a great time with family and friends!

What’s next? Scuba diving and Sky diving!

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World Wide Webb’s post 4.

Palm Cove, Queensland is a remote resort area where we are enjoying the relaxing lifestyle of the beach. We are staying in a three bedroom condo just off the beach with beautiful tree top views. We ate dinner last night at a Greek restaurant called El Greko. It was definitely one of the best meals of my life! Everything was soooooooo good. Almost too good! We all ate our full and then fell right to sleep.

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World Wide Webb’s post 3.

Kangaroo Island adventure… We were expecting to see all kinds of native wildlife and the dream came true. Our first animal to spot was a Kangaroo on the side of the road… the kangaroo is much like the deer. Dangerous road hazards! We drove all the way to Admirals Rock which was covered in seals, second animal to spot! We drove over then to Remarkable rocks…from a distance the formation of the rocks looks like a camel but when you get close enough to them, they are more so just granite rocks with really pretty curves and arches. You were allowed to clime on the rocks and so we did until brad jumped down and gave himself a good twistie! (Australian for sprain, at least that’s what we called it.) We later found out that a twistie was actually their form of cheetoh’s. After a really good picnic lunch we ventured to see Koala’s! And they are adorable, we were all so excited to finally see one up close and personal in the wild! That night we attempted to see penguins, but we were only allowed to use a red light which made it difficult to see them. We stayed over night in Kangaroo Island and headed out the next morning for more adventure seeking. We started at seal bay where the sea lions were lounging all over the beautiful white sand. They are pretty funny to watch, the males are very large and fight/play with the other males for fun. Most of the moms were nursing their young and just enjoying the sun’s rays!
Sandboarding came next on our adventure tour and it was a lot of fun. The fun however did not come without hard work. Picture a huge hill covered in sand and the only way to get to the top is to clime. By the time you get to top your legs are so tired that you have to take a break before you go down the hill. Margaret stayed down and video taped all of us cruising down the hill. When the footage is available I will post it.
Our tour ended back at the wildlife zoo where we could actually pet the Koalas and Kangaroos… I made a good friend with a kangaroo and he even gave me a hug and kiss before I left! HaHa. He really liked his belly scratched and apparently I was really good at it. From here we flew back to Adelaide and spent our final night there.


The Kangaroo's
The Koala and her baby Brad and the Shy Koala
Me and the Koala
My new Friend, the Kangaroo! He really did like me!

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World Wide Webb’s post 2.

We arrived in Adelaide, SA and we are staying in some upscale modern apartments in the middle of the city. Our taxi cab driver and others referred to Adelaide as the sister city of Austin, Texas. Very cool! We took the tram down to the beach where we ate delicious Italian food. It was very impressive! We followed dinner with some Australian ice cream and headed back to the hotel for our first nights rest. Much needed after losing a whole day traveling.

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World Wide Webb’s post 1.

Well we are on our final flight… 3 of 3; leg one was from Dallas to LA, leg two LA to Sydney and the Final leg Sydney to Adelaide. We have started off strong! All seven of us cruising through the airports in true Webb style… matching yellow shirts… like ducks in a row. I am sure you can get the picture! We started our journey on Friday December 19, 2008 and now on Sunday December 21, 2008 we are in Australia. The flight was not all that bad… comfy seats and really cool personal movie, game, music and information system on the seat back in front of you! I watched Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Mamma Mia and Ghost Town. Definitely the coolest thing I have ever seen on an air plane. We ate breakfast Aussi Airport style this morning at Hungry Jack’s (aka Burger King, same logo and everything!) Russell ended up with 18 pancakes instead of the 6 he ordered, Apparently he missed the fact that there was three per order, the breakfast burrito’s had some kind of barbeque sauce on them and the eggs were fried instead of scrambled. I am sure more adventure awaits us! Well we are taking off now and I gotta go… Pancakes... all 18 of them!
Finally arrived in Australia!

Thanksgiving... Finally

Well, I finally have a moment to tell you about our Thanksgiving!

The whole family was there! I was so excited, and we all got to stay for several days! We kicked off the fun Tuesday night when we all arrived! Mom made her now famous Chicken and Dumplings and we were stuffed. Brad opened an early Christmas gift from Chris for us all to play! Mario Kart for Wii... We stayed up way to late speeding around mushroom gorge and moo moo meadows, but it was worth it!

Wednesday, Mom made appointments for Lane and I to get massages while Dad and Brad golfed and Chris and Alex did some last minute shopping for our Thanksgiving Christmas! Lane and I both decided that Cynthia gave us one of the best massages ever and felt so relaxed after! We all went to visit Chris's church and Youth Group that he has been volunteering for! It was a great service and had some really good worship...Then it was back home for some more Wii!

Turkey Day/ Christmas morning was next! Brad and I will be in Australia with his family over Christmas so we celebrated with my family early! Brad and I got some really nice things, most of mine were for the house and clothes and Brad received clothes, Cowboys parafanella, and really cool shoes! We gave Alex a sushi and sake set, Lane got a coach cluth and bracelet and Chris got a scarf and the full Chronicles of Narnia book collection. Mom and Dad got a free stay here in McKinney and dinner for two at Ricks! What more could they ask for? HaHa, I love family gift time... Although its not the reason for the season by any means, its still a fun tradition!

Mom made a heck of a Thanksgiving meal and completely out did herself! She made all of our favorites that we grew up with, so delicious! Lane made a new and special dessert that will most likely become a tradition! Then we took family pictures as seen above!




Typical!

We all went shopping on Black Friday and it was a little crazy! But after seeing Four Christmases and eating at Cheesecake Factory we were more than pleased! It was a great trip and we all had so much fun hanging out and eating lots of food!