Monday, June 8, 2009

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After 5 nights outside of Melbourne in the Yarra Valley, we flew to Tasmania for 7 night. This was our first stop. The Cataract Gorge in Launceston.

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Picture of the inside of the MCG stadium. This was actually a football game, not cricket. They call it "Footy."

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When we were out a winery one day we met this guy who was the VP for the Melbourne Cricket Grounds and he gave us free tickets to the opening game! We had VIP seats with the club members and there were 108,000 people there!

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This was the night we went out for dinner for our Anniversary!

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Goodbye NZ, hello Australia! We made it the Yarra Valley (another wine region) for our two year anniversary. It was very relaxing.

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Mum made us take this photo b/c she wanted to remember the fall colors in Christchurch.

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More wine! We hit up every wine region in NZ. This one was called the Wairau Valley.

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These are the same rocks and that's Tim in the background.

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We stopped in a small coastal town on our way to the Caitlans. We ate mussels and had beers - yum!

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We climbed these huge rocks off the beach where we stayed in the Caitlans.

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On part of our hike we stopped by Lake Manapouri, but the damn sand flies kept attacking me!

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This is just a small part of the Kepler Mountain Track that we hiked. It took us about 3 hours.

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On the drive to Lake Manapouri.

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Mum was in the front of our two person kayak. I had to stear the kayak from the back seat.

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Timmy kayaking in the Milford Sound.

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Getting ready for our morning of kayaking in the Milford Sound. The water was like glass and so clear that we saw giant, orange starfish!

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TimTams - a classic New Zealand/Australian biscuit (or cookie as we would call it)

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Milford Sound

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There were huge waterfalls gushing out of the mountians while we were cruising around the Sound.

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Milford Sound

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This was a boat cruise we took in the Milford Sound. We were there for 3 days and it was sunny every day. We were really lucky b/c it rains over 200 days a year here!

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Taking off on a boat cruise in the Milford Sound

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You probably can't see in the picture, but the winery that makes this wine is called Roaring Meg! Delicious Pinot Noir.

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All I can say is SCARY!

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