June 21-22

                On these combined two days, smushed together by the International Date Line, for 14 hours I was stuck on a plane. It wasn’t too bad; we got the bulkhead seats, with extra leg room, pull out TV’s, cheesecake, brownies, and kiwi juice! However, we were chasing the sun, and it was hard to get a decent sleep in upright, tiny chair and I was left exhausted. And I still am. 

Also, for the majority of the trip I will be posting video slideshows of the pictures I take with my camera throughout the day, so you viewers can experience my day almost like a first hand account. 

Plane/Alice Springs/Cairns

Our plane was delayed leaving the airport. This airplane trip was different than others. Instead of walking through the jet way to the plane, we walked down onto the tarmac to a bus, which drove us to our plane. Then we got off the bus, and walked up the stairs onto the airplane from the tarmac.

The plane flight was short then we landed in Alice Springs, Alice Springs had a tiny airport, there were only two planes. The one we landed in, and the one we were transferring to. We got off the plane walked around, and got onto the other plane. All the planes we got on and off we used the little stairs that lead to the tarmac, because we too tiny planes that couldn’t connect to the jet way.

When we landed in Cairns it was dark, but it was also hot and humid.  We got settled into our hotel, than we walked down onto the beach. There was a sign that said there might be crocodiles, and jellyfish in the water.

We walked along the beach and back.

Perth

Today we piled in the car and drove out to the beach. We walked around the beach and took pictures.

 

Then we got into the car again, to drive elsewhere, and it started raining. The rain didn’t end our little drive. We drove to another beach walked around and took photos. Sadly my iPod died so I didn’t capture any photos of this beach. We had lunch, and ice cream, and then we drove home.

Around 5:00 all the cousins (Carl, Jordan, Alicia, Bella, Maddie, Charlotte, and their parents) came over for dinner. We went and said good bye to our other great aunt and uncle, Hanadi, and Khalil. Then we came back and hung out with the cousins some more.

It was a nice and calm day for our last day in Perth.           

Perth

Today we woke up really early, so we could catch a ferry to Rottnest Island. On our way we stopped at Belmont so I could get a purse. It was very cold, and I wanted hot chocolate. On the ferry, I played on my iPod, sort of slept, and looked out the window. Mom showed us a picture of a quokka in the brochure. A quokka is like a tiny kangaroo, and only lives on Rottnest Island.

When we reached the island, it had kind of warmed up. We walked to a Dome (coffee shop) and had our hot chocolate. When we left the coffee shop, we saw our first quokka sitting right outside the door.

When then got bikes, and biked around. We stopped at a beach, and took some photos.

Then we rode some more. We came to another stop, at a pretty beach, with cool rocks. Jasmin and I walked in the water, it was very warm. Lukas and Ben climbed around on rocks, and slid down a sandy hill. We rode for a little more, it got hotter.

We rode up a big hill, to a lighthouse, just to ride back down again, because we had to pay $20.00 just to go in the light house. By then it was lunch time so we had to ride back. On the ride back, we rode past some saltwater lakes that came up right to the rode, so you had to be careful not to fall in.     

 

By the time we got back to where we started we had lunch because it was around 2:00. After lunch we returned the bikes, and Lukas, Ben, and I Played on a rope structure and counted quokkas.

After we left Rottnest island, we had spotted 35-40 quokkas. It was a fun day.  

Perth

This morning both of our second cousins living in Perth, came over for breakfast. We had a huge, yummy breakfast.

For lunch, we went over to our other great aunt and uncle’s and we had a huge, yummy lunch. Then we went for a walk, with Hanadi and Khalil. After the walk, we played at the park. Then we went home and relaxed.

About an hour of relaxing we went to Maddie, Bella, and Charlotte’s except Charlotte wasn’t there for most of the time. We watched The Sandlot and The Sandlot 2. We were going to watch The Sandlot 3, but we ran out of time.

After dinner Mom and Dad went out to go find Wi-Fi with Jordan, Carl, and Alicia’s dad. So Jordan, Alicia, and Carl, came over to where we were staying. Jasmin and I entertained Jordan. While the boys, and the others did whatever.

Then Carl, Alicia, and Jordan left, then we went to bed, then that ended the day.        

Perth

Today we went to Jordan, Carl, and Alicia’s house. I held one of their guinea pigs, and it bit me! Then we went out for lunch, we met Maddie, Bella, and Charlotte there. The place where we went out for lunch was really cool, because it was supposed to be like a secret garden. We ate outside, with intertwined branches over our heads. There weren’t any crazy animals, just a few yellow birds in a cage. There was also a bird that talked that was of the same species as one of the birds we saw at the sanctuary. We tried to teach him how to say ‘hello’ but he wasn’t good at speaking, as the other ones.

After lunch, we drove to Swan Valley. There were a lot of wineries there, which was wear all the grownups were headed.

First, we stopped at a chocolate factory. You could take a little spoonful of white, dark, and milk chocolate to try. All the kids got ice cream, and watched a guy make chocolate. Then we played soccer/football outside with a random ball we found.

Next, we went to a winery; we played hide and seek tag, because we weren’t allowed wine.

Then, they went to brewery. There were a lot of trees there. So we went around trying to climb trees. We got in trouble for climbing the trees, so we played chasies, or orb tag. Chasies, or orb tag is when you get tagged, or you tag some they/you become it, with the person who tagged them.       

Finally, we went to one last winery, and played normal tag for about 20 minutes.

After the trip in swan valley, we all went to Jordan, Alicia, and Carl’s house. Bella, Jordan, and I played on Jordan’s computer. Mostly everyone else was downstairs watching transformers. We had Chinese food for dinner, and then we watched transformers ‘till we had to go.  

Perth

Today, we went and walked to our other great aunt and great uncle’s house. We also met Hanadi, and Khalil. We had tea cake at their house. Then we drove to a Westfield with Hanadi, Khalil, and their mom (one of our great aunts). I got jeans, and a pretty T-shirt. We also had lunch, at the food court.

Later, Bella, Maddie, and Charlotte came over, and we went to a pizza place, and met Jordan, Carl, and Alicia there.

After pizza, we went to a cinema and saw Ice Age 4, Continental Drift, it was really funny.