Just made it back from the Easter holidays. Mom came up on April 10th and stayed 2 weeks. The first week I gave her the tour around Melbourne. The first day that she arrived I walked her around Uni. Then we headed downtown, looking at the Victorian State Library (which is like a museum), walking past mascots for Aussie League Football, stopping at the visitor's information center, going through the racehorse museum, watching the sunset over Melbourne from the Rio...

Alright- I finally have a chance to catch up. So as the lights were flashing we pulled back into the lane and everything went smoothly for the rest of our ride to the barn. When we got there we gathered our gear (I got a real Aussie riding coat known as Drizabone or Driza). Then we met our horses. I was given a Clydesdale/ Thoroughbred cross named Star. He was a really nice horse. I even got to ride in an Aussie saddle. Mine was a military saddle - it was comfort...

What an awesome weekend! I finally got a chance to go horseback riding- yay! There is a horse group that goes out on rides every weekend. This past weekend was their first overnight ride and I had the chance to go with them. It was a blast. There were 11 of us. We went in cars to Portland Victoria which is about a 5 hour drive from Melbourne. I even had a chance to drive! Being on the left hand side of the rode wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I even went ...

Hello! Wow- so much stuff to catch up on. As you'll notice I have posted a couple new photo albums (3). Luckily a picture says a thousand words or else I could spend forever writing about my time here. So here is the quick update. First check out the photos from the zoo and rugby. On Wed. the 15th we went to the Melbourne Zoo for my Wildlife Biolgoy class. It was really neat- we sketched fur seals, reptiles, and birds while learning facts about them and their be...

Happy St. Patrick\'s Day. Sorry I haven\'t given an update in a while but hopefully you have gotten to see the rock climbing pictures from the trip I went on this past weekend- it was so much fun! Let me back track a little and tell you about the first picture. It is from the Queen Victoria Night Market which is held every Wednesday night til the end of March. There is so much good food there. I got to try a roo burger, emu sausage, and crocodile fillets. Quite t...