We are finally back!!

I have been told by quite a few people to hurry up and write another one of these, so here we go......We have had quite the week full of adventure, excitement, and crazy times. We left Saturday morning to travel to Brisbane where we were to board the Pacific Star! First of all our bus to Brisbane was an hour and a half late, we were very worried we weren’t going to make the ship! We arrived at the wharf and saw the ship….it was soooo big! It was so exciting when we first boarded, we went and toured the ship and got lost too many times. hehe. There was a big disembarkation party on the top deck so we spent the next couple of hour’s sun tanning in 35◦ weather on the top deck. We were so looking forward to the next worry-free, work-free, and relazxing7 days. We were a little off on that one, a few hours after we sailed away from Brisbane I found out that my luggage had been dropped in the ocean. So I went the next day and a half without my clothes, make-up, and my most valuable thing-my camera! It was so annoying having to deal with the crew on the ship and I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out how to get my camera back, but other then that we had an awesome time. Our first stop was in Airlie Beach in the Whitsunday Islands which is probably the nicest part of Australia. We never got to go to the nice resort places but we toured around the city and went swimming in their lagoon. When you travel up to northern Queensland the ocean is full of boxed jellyfish which are so dangerous they can kill you. So you can’t swim in the ocean up there. The town was full of backpacker hotels, and travel places so we got to look into some things we wanted to do in the next few days. Tuesday we arrived in Cairns early morning. We spent the morning touring around and seeing what the town was like, we really liked it there except for the weather, way too much rain because it’s so tropical. We found a good travel agent who found us something to do all afternoon…..white water rafting!! I cannot believe we did it. It was so fun and scary and so exciting! It took four hours and we traveled down the Barron River which was so beautiful, we basically traveled through the rainforest. Everything was perfect until Tandri disappeared! We were on the last rapid which was the smallest one when Tandri fell backwards and under the river. We all laughed and waited…and waited…and waited for him to come up. He got stuck under the boat and came down the current with us! It was a short time but I think we all had a second of panic. He came up with a shocked looked saying “Good thing I took a breath before going under!” haha I am so glad that we decided to go. We went back on the ship for supper then headed back out too experience Cairns at night. We didn’t have to be back on the ship until 3:30am. We woke up the next morning early so we could get off to see Port Douglas. We liked it there the most; it was a cute little town. We got on this huge boat and traveled an hour to the outer Great Barrier Reef. We spent the whole day snorkeling and swimming and had the best time. It was so so cool snorkeling and seeing all the animals and coral. Tandri really loved it. The next couple of days we were just sailing and hanging out on the boat. We both got a little sea sick during the week so that kinda sucked but we loved being on the boat. We ate so much good food, and met a whole bunch of really nice people. We played bingo one day for fun and almost won $4000, we were only one number away. We were very ready and excited to be back home Saturday morning. We realized we definitely picked the best place to live, we love Surfers Paradise. Today was our first day back at work and now we have to get back into the old swing of things. We are going to go surfing tomorrow. I have loads and loads of laundry to do…….hope your week was good.
Tandri and Brittni