Christmas , boxing day and the weekend :)

So Christmas was a little bit of an interesting day, ended up being awake pretty early, so while waiting for others to get up, a little bit after Christmas we opened up presents, I got a few things, like a manicure set, hand cream, a dress, country music cd, diary, and a few other things as well.

After lunch we went to a lovely place called Etty Bay, which was a lovely little area with a great beach, which is almost secluded from everywhere, the sea was nice and warm, there was even a Cassowary wandering around the place, it was nice to just sit and relax at the beach for a few hours,  later on in the day, more people showed up for a dinner, where there was a lot of salad, got to talk to my mum, grandparents and siblings.
 
Boxing Day, on this day we ( Dad, his gf and I) headed off to Herberton to visit my grandad and nanna, it was a pretty good drive, we stopped in Milla Milla for a little bit as a pit stop then continued the rest of the way, was a good thing that it doesn't take too long to get to Herberton, because I was getting a tad car sick, was great to see grandad and nanna Debbie when we arrived, we had some lunch and relaxed, I also talked to Debbie for quite awhile which was nice, played a game of pool aswell, later got to talk to my aunty who lives in England.

The Saturday, spent most of the day looking around the lovely little historical village that is there, which I must say is just fantastic to have a look at, I really enjoyed it, also had a lovely country style pot pie  for lunch.

on sunday we just drove back to cairns, first we stopped and looked at the Milaa Milaa falls, and also looked at a look out that looked over the table lands

Cairns Part 1

So Have officially started my lovely holiday break in the wonderful city of Cairns, arrived in Cairns at 2300 hours on thursday the 18th, was a bit of a boring flight, but was good anyhow, there was what felt like at that time of the night, the most longest walk ever from getting off the aeroplane and, heading inside the terminal.

The next day, since dad was going to work i just relaxed  around the house for a little bit,

on saturday i went into the city with my dad and his girlfriend, stopped at the cairns central shopping centre,  did a little bit of shopping for myself, then i decided while i was waiting to be picked up that i would head for a wee walk into the city, along the esplanade a little bit, doing a little bit of sight seeing even though i have seen most of the stuff before :)

the next day on sunday went for a nice small trip to Palm Cove, it was a lovely day there and we walked along the beach and Jetty/Wharf for a little bit, then got some ice cream and walked along the beach which was very nice, later on in the day we went out for dinner to a place called La Porchetta, which was a nice place to eat, then after dinner we went to several houses and looked at Christmas lights.

Yesterday i went into the city and went on a bus tour just around seeing different places of cairns which was pretty interesting.

So with today being Christmas Eve, i am now currently in a little town just outside of innisfail to spend christmas day with my dad's girlfriend's family, and on boxing day we are heading up to Herberton to see and visit my grandad and nanna, can't wait.


I wish everyone  a very wonderful Christmas Day :)

finished in Darwin

Today i am now in Cairns for a few weeks holiday, before i go back to the family once they are all settled into a place in Townsville,

i arrived in Cairns last night at 11pm, and my dad was there to meet me once i got off the plane. So today all i have done is relax, listening to music and reading.

my last week in Darwin had been pretty busy, with watching after Jonathan, while the house was getting cleaned, we had also stayed in an apartment for a few days, since the house was getting packed up and cleaned. The apartment was pretty awesome, very large and had an awesome view of the sea looking over the esplanade


Did get to catch up with my great friend Dilan before i left as well, which was just great.


on tuesday for my day off i went for a bit of a walk up to Cullen Bay, and then afterwards headed to the Cinema to watch a movie,  I watched Exodus it was a pretty good movie really enjoyed it.

I will miss Darwin, and the friends that i made there as well, but can't wait for Townsville :)

Update some more during the week

Just 1 week Left

I now officially be leaving Darwin, and will actually sitting on a plane heading for Cairns for a few weeks, to spend christmas with my dad i am so looking forward to it, then of course heading off to Townsville to begin another awesome adventure in a new place that i have never actually been before :).

Managed to get Christmas  presents sent of back to New Zealand,  have also been helping out with cleaning up the house over the last few days, since on Monday we will be at a hotel for a few days before i catch my plane on thursday night, and also the host family will be driving down to Townsville on the friday.

the monday just gone i went and got my hair cut and coloured, i love it, looks totally awesome now :), my host mum liked it, she could not stop saying how lovely it looked.

So before i leave for Cairns i am hoping to catch up with my great friend Dilan :)

i will miss Darwin, but so looking forward to Townsville.

Art work from miss rosa

Art from Rosa, the wee girl i looked after in Berlin

Three Months ♡♥♡♥♡♥♡

This will be a bit of short post but im so hqppy that ihave been with this same pretty awesome family now for three months it has been great, also experincing so many different parts of Darwin, and also making such wonderful friends as well and experincing many different things, must say i am goimg to miss darwin just a little bit, even though the wet season has started up now :)

Looking forward to Townsville seeing what townsville has to offer when we all move there.

Also lookimg forward to Cairns over christmas .

Part Three

So for this one lets talk about my completly awesome birthday surprise that ,my host mum had brought for me and also a friend to come along with, me aswell which was pretty awesome so on the 15th Nov with my friend Dilan at 1.30pm we went to the transit centre to wait for our bus, although it took awhile to find the place, not the best directioms to find it though, went on a half day tour with aat kings,

This tour took us down to Adelaide River and wemt on a Cruise called Spectaular jumping Crocidiles, that was pretty awesome, saw a lot of crocodiles, and also got ro see them being feed, that was a nice time out on the river nice and peaceful minus the fact that there was crocodiles :), after that we went to the windows over the wetlands, that was pretty awesome gave you a lovely view of the whole area, and after that we headed to Fogg dam which was very lovely looking with to drive along a look out the window at.

So it was a pretty fun day.

Next adventure was last weekend 21-23  with 3 other Au Pairs went out to  Kakadu National park for the weekend which was a pretty awesome, fun, excitimg and also exhausting weekend but other than that was a great place to go,
On the friday we headed down to Cooinda where we were staying in the lodge there, first we stopped at the supermarket at palmerston to grab food for the weekend, then we headed off on our Journey,

We arrived at our accomadation at about 6ish and checked in plus also buying a park pass as well
Hotel was quite nice, after we got all our gear from the car and sorted it all out in our room, we had then got ready to jump in the pool, and after spending a couple of hours there we had ourselves some dinner and sat outside chatting whilst planning the next day.

So on the saturday we woke up ealrly and left cooinda at around  7ish and headed on our way towards Gunlom,, drove along a very lovely red dirt road, where we tolk a few photos , along the road towards Gunlom, a big buffalo stood in the middle of the road for a bit,  bit once a road train came barrelling past and the the buffalo ran away,

Was a good thing too we were pretty much in 4wd because the road got very 4wd car worthy.
At Gunlom there of us walked up the top of the track, with a lovely view of the area looking from thetop of the Gunlom falls, we walked down a bit further where there were a few pools and went swimming in them, was very lovely

After gulom falls we headed back to the lodge and 8relaxed for a bit whilst we waited a bit longer to head to our next activity,
Next we headed to an area where you could see crcodiles roaming around in the river, as will as a lovely little bush walk, where a lot of bats were hanging around in the tress,  afterwards we  headed to a place called Ubirr, saw lots of fantastic and wonderful rock art, which was just amazing, then we climbed up a pretty big rock that gave a massive, and speechless view of Kakadu it was just amazing, also watched the sunset from there as well,

Afthe night we headed back to the lodge and had dinner and played a game of Ino.

Sunday
On sunday morning we got up extra early because we were heading on a cruise along the Yellow river, it was a wetlands cruise it was pretty amazing, lots of different birds, millions ( of crocidiles, it was a lovely early morning  cruise
After the cruise we got a free breakfast back at the lodge which was free, was sooo much food there.

Once we checked out of the accomadation we checked out the cultural centre, that talked about many different aboriginal traditioms,.
Then we went for a walk up  a steep hill to a lookout called Mirrai lookout, with a lovely 360 view, after that we headed to another place, where we saw more rock art

Then we headed into Jabiru, where we relaxed and had some lunch before heading back into Darwin


That weeked was pretry wonderful, enjoyed it soo much. ♡♡♡♡♡♥♥♥♥♥

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