Category Archives: travel

Australia, Continued (Cairns still)

Since we wanted to snorkel for 2 days, we picked 2 different companies: Quicksilver and Tusa Dive.

The particular Quicksilver package we picked took us on a huge air-conditioned boat that carried hundreds of people and drove us out pretty far out to what looked like a permanent platform. There were lots of people who [...]

Cairns and the tropical north

We went to Australia for the last two weeks. Flew outta SFO on Friday, arrived in Sydney on Sunday (we crossed the date line), then connected to Cairns. We flew Qantas (our first time) and dude we really like Qantas. They had movies on demand and lots of food (edible!) and snacks [...]

All Exclamations, All the Time

I’m leaving for Australia tonight! Yessssssss! (extra hissing cos I’m excited cos hello, vacation!) But no worries, peoples, I’ll be back in time for Selection Sunday and March Madness! :P

Recommendables

I’ve uploaded a bunch of photos from the break. If it seems like all we did was eat, play wii, play cards, and play Scrabble, then you got a pretty accurate view of the trip. =) Hope everyone had a nice holiday season.
I’m not much of one for resolutions cos they always seem [...]

Blacklist

We flew out on Wednesday, the day that Denver was hit by a blizzard, which already made everything extra bad, but worse than that, we flew United. Denver is a major hub for United, so all of their lines were awful. The United agent we finally spoke with (who was very nice) said [...]

I hope it’s nicer there than here.

We’re taking the rest of the week off, yay!
We’re flying all day tomorrow, boo.
Oh well, at least this time my parents and CT’s got DSL. Finally! Hallelujah! (I could go on.)
I wish someone would invent the transporter. Beam me up, Scotty!