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Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

Well here we are in Australia and I’m afriad we have not been doing any better on keeping up with our blog here than we were in Bali, not due to lack of computer facilities but because of our not spending any time in them!
Met up with Anthony and Bob in Perth, it was great to see them again, Anthony and Jesse were nice enough to let us crash on their couch for a few days in Perth!
We rented a car, traveled down to the South camping out at beautiful beaches and amazing national parks. We did see about 200 kangaroos! When we got out of the Indian ocean and into the Southern ocean the water turned cold! My hands went numb while we were snorkeling. You can tell that is the same water that surrounds Antartica. Brrr!
Unfortunately, we also set up our tent on a nest of about 200 scorpions one night. Needless to say, I slept in the car and convinced Dave to as well.
Now we are in the ‘middle’ of Australia. Tonight we will stay in Alice Springs and tomorrow we head to ‘the rock’ Ayers rock or Uluru as the Aboriginal people call it. I’m pretty excited about that!
We went to a wildlife sanctuary yesterday and got to pet koalas and ‘roos! We also managed to climb a few moderate size peaks in the Stirling Range National Park so we even got our hiking fix in.
Wish we had checked our website sooner, we did not see Bill and Sharon’s post until it was too late.
Well the food in Australia is OK, so far no one has forced me to eat Vegemite!
Miss everyone and really, I WILL post pictures soon!

Bali 1

Sunday, March 13th, 2005

Hi everyone, we are in Bali, Indonesia now. Communication with the outside world is not so easy as it was in Thailand, perhaps you have noticed our lack of posts, emails, and phone calls. We are back in a fairly touristy area now though, so we have access to decent internet, although it is not cheap. I may try to post photos tomorrow, we’ll see how the downloading is here.
The diving in Bali is excellent, the reef is extremely healthy and beautiful. We spent several days in a small town called Amed right near all the good dive sites, then moved north to another small town called Kedisan and climbed Ulan Batur, a fairly active volcano.
We are now in a town called Ubud, just north of the famous Kuta beach. We visited a monkey sanctuary today and they were a little too friendly. They just jumped on me a little but Dave had a couple of young ones ride around on him for quite a while.
Although it is hard to believe we have been gone over a month we are feeling a bit homesick. We miss Molly and Squeakie and feel a little ‘out of it’ when communication is difficult.
More later!