Look out for the humpy!!

Whale Watching

Okay, SUPER delayed blog!
We have been super busy, well as busy as you can be while living in a small town like Exmouth.  David and I have managed to find work to keep us busy. At the moment I am sitting next to two little joeys sitting in little home made pouches popping in and out as they hear different noises.  The American family that we have befriended here get to take care of them as a lady goes to work certain days and needs someone to babysit them. 

Since we last blogged we have moved around quite a bit.  After our week at Cathryn's we stayed in a caravan park for a couples days (where kangaroos, in the night stole shoes and wrecked the left over ones).  A lady named Deb (the American mom) messaged us asking us if we would like to stay with her and her family while her husband was away in America for the week.  So we moved in with them and became a part of their family.  Her eldest daughter was so excited as I was also going to be teaching her classroom a couple days that week so not only did she get taught by "Miss Holly" she also got to live with "Miss Holly."  The youngest is almost four and he cannot contain his excitement everytime Mr. Dave and Miss Holly come over to play with him.  They have given David and better and more positive view of Americans.  They get cheap shipping over here so they have tons of yummy American things that we can only get back home....reece's peanut butter cups, marshmallows, pop tarts, gushers....the list goes on.

After living with them, and almost becoming homesick as I was reminded of all the things I am missing out on back home, Cathryn asked us if we would like to come and stay with them again for 2 weeks as the all decided they wanted to have us back.  We obviously accepted and enjoyed another two weeks with them.  David and I also took turns with them cooking dinner.  I have been giving the opportunity to help Cathryn out with a girls group that she does every second Friday.  It has been fun doing that kind of stuff again and David enjoys his Star Wars lessons and movie watching men's night with Wayne and Zac.  We have had many tea times with Cathryn trying out her many different kinds of tea. 

The other day Wayne offered to take us out on the boat to go whale watching.  It was awesome!!! There were so many humpback whales everywhere and they would come so close to the boat.  It is amazing how massive they are.  We ran into a group of 7 or 8 whales chasing around each other and playing...imagine 8 1 tonne whales at pretty fast speeds jumping on each other and playing around...its cool and scary, we kept our distance.  My pictures do not do justice at all.  When we were not chasing the whales we were sitting in the boat listening to them talk to each other under the water and hearing their blowholes pufff out of the water, so loud!  We cannot wait to go out there again.  AND apparently there are still whale sharks hanging around in the golf.  I so hope we see one again!  

The weather has been super hot here with a record day of 42 degrees Celsius.  Apparently most of the summer here is 40s and 50s, I am glad we will be leaving here by then.  It sounds like the opposite of our extreme winters.  I do not know which would be worse.

At the moment it is school holidays.  I like how the school terms run here, much better than back home I think.  They have four terms that each last about 10 weeks with two week breaks inbetween minus the summer holidays which is more like 5 weeks long.  Much nicer on the teachers and students.  After the break I have to cut down my shifts at the IGA because I will be getting heaps of teaching work with the school.  I had lots before the holidays as well due to a flu going around the town, I have been lucky and have still not caught it.  I am also doing night fill at my IGA on Wednesdays and Saturdays.  It's my fitness for the week. haha.

Sorry there are no photos up yet.  We are currently living in a place that does not have internet.  As soon as I have more time at a house with internet there will be an overload.  We are house sitting at a house this weekend and in a couple weeks time Deb and her family are going for a 3 week trip back to America, at this time we will be house sitting for them with plenty of time for writing blogs and putting up photos. 

Well that should be a big enough update for now, hopefully the next one will not be so far off in the future.  It is feeding and toilet time for the joeys.  So I am off.

Holly & David