Crazy Life at The Warner's

We decided that while we were visiting Stacy and Kevin that Mark needed to scuba dive in the ocean. He has been certified for 20 years and has never been in the ocean before and what a better place than the Great Barrier Reef. We left on Wednesday and went to the night market on a hunt for souvenirs and found lots of fun stuff. Mark found him a new hat made out of Kangaroo and I found me an opal necklace to name a few things.

The next morning we woke up bright and early, the earliest this whole vacation so far, and headed for the marina and some awesome scuba diving and snorkeling.

This is before we started the hour and a half trip out to the reef on a very bumpy ride, by the time we got there I was sick, but it was worth it. Mark hired out a camera and took lots of pictures while scuba diving and I learned how to snorkel.


He is so excited, he could hardly sleep the night before. He asked me about 20 times if I knew for sure the alarm was set because he didn't want to miss the boat.

I even survived snorkeling. When I tried it in Bear Lake I started to have a panic attack and I was worried what would happen here, but as soon as I stuck my head in the water and saw all of the fish and the coral I didn't even remember that my head was under water. It was sooooooo cool.

Mark found Nemo and his family,

A huge clam,

a lion fish and

a sea turtle just to name a few.
I was just happy to stay on the top of the water with my tour guide, Ana. She was very nice and helped my get around the reef.

The next day we decided to take a tour to a different part of the country and very different from the ocean and went to the rainforest. We went on a boat down the Daintree River keeping a sharp look-out for crocs, as they call them in Australia. Towards the end of our journey, low and behold we finally found two of them. One with his beady little eyes looking at you out of the water and the other one sunning himself on the bank.

The rainforest has beautiful trees and bushes and the most gorgeous flowers.

We stopped at a look out on Four Mile Beach.

We ate bananas that were from a tree and not the store. They taste different than the ones we buy at WalMart in Utah. They are have a sweeter taste to them and are really yummy.


One of the last things we did was hunt for seashells on the beach. We found lots of seashells and brought them to Stacy's house. Stacy told me that she boils them to get rid of germs and so I put them in the pot of boiling water. Guess what was inside one of them?!?! You guessed it a little crab, Stacy says I am a murderer. I feel so bad I didn't even know he was inside his house.


We had a great time in Cairns (Cans) and loved seeing a different part of Australia. Next week with Stacy we will see more of the sites here is Sydney. Stay tuned for more adventures from Australia.

We headed off for the Botanical Gardens this morning. We packed a picnic lunch and headed off to catch the train. Stacy says it's easier to get around the city on public transportation and she is right. There are cars and people everywhere. We went to the gardens and walked around for a bit and then found the best spot for a picnic lunch.


We started heading off for another trail where the Flying Foxes hang around and ran into a bunch of cockatoos, they where everywhere. We spent some time feeding them and watching them. It was so cool. Every morning the Kookaburas and the Cockatoos sing to us outside our window so I wanted to see one, well we saw quite a few of them.

Cooper and I feeding the Cockatoos.


Maddie giving a Cockatoo a drink.

The Rainbow Lorkeets came over to see what they were missing out on. They are really pretty birds. They kept landing on Mark and Stacy's heads.

Then we went to find the Flying Foxes. They just sleep in the trees all day. There were tons of them.

So far we are having a great time. We have seen lots of fun things and had a great time with Stacy, Kevin and the kids.

So after all the airport hassels we finally got to Sydney. We meet up with Kevin and went home with him. I thought we should do some walking to keep us awake for the rest of the day so we set off for some sight seeing. We went to Manley Beach and played on the beach and then took a ferry across the harbor to the Opera House and The Rocks where we had yummy pizza.

Me and Madi hunting for seashells. She is an awesome seashell hunter. She has been practicing for a long time.

Mark

Cooper

Rylee loves the water.

Rylee.

The Opera House from our ferry ride across the Harbor.

Stacy, Madi and I sitting on the stairs of the Opera House.

I have been super busy with soccer the last few months because of registration and so I have not taken the time to post anything lately. I will update a few things and later put on some pictures.

We left the day school got out and took the boat to Delta. We stayed with our friends, Brett and Shannon. It was so much fun we have not seen them since we moved from Magna and it was great to hang out with them. They have a cute family and we just love their kids.

Chelsea brought home a cute kittie. Her name is Snowbelle and she is very funny. Mark is slowly getting over the fact and even Avery thinks she's not so bad.

Avery decided to play football and he wants to be a kicker for Hunter this year. He loves to play and has been having a great time.

We have a new car because I didn't want to drive the Mustang anymore. I couldn't ever drive it after the accident and also gas is killing us. We have a Honda Civic and it gets lots better gas mileage.

Last Friday Avery was lifting weights with Matt at the Fitness Center and dropped a 35 lbs dumbell on his right ring finger. I ended up at the emergency room with him at Pioneer Hospital. Not a good choice I know, but that's where we went. On Sunday I had to take him back for a wound check and didn't feel good about it so I took him to the new hospital, IMC. They gave me a referral for an orthopedic and got me an appointment for Tuesday. We went to the doctor yesterday and ended up having surgery on his finger. He had damaged the nail bed into about seven or eight pieces that had to be stitched back together. We hope that everything will heal, but they are worried about part of the right side of his finger. We know that things will turn out better and he will be able to do all of the fun things he wants to do.

Avery and Austin are getting ready for soccer and they have a few tournaments coming up in the next few weeks.

I am really excited for Education Week with Wendy. I could really use the break from everyday life.

Well Chelsea is ready for another dance concert on May 16. It is at 7:00 at the same place. She is dancing to the song Still Rock and Roll to Me. They were told to make sure they had big hair. She had pictures taken today so I took some pictures of her in her costume. She also made Jazz Attitude. She is going to be really busy with dance, but she is super excited.

The soccer team took 3rd place in the region so they are moving onto playoffs. They start the first play off game this week. We think it is on Tues. They will be playing Jordan High. We are excited for the team and love to watch soccer. Avery is having a blast and learning lots of new things. He has a couple of great coaches.

Chelsea has been working on a few dance routines. Last week they had three days of clinics and today was tryouts. We didn't think they would find out who made Dance Company at the Jr. High until Wednesday, but they decided to post it tonight. Chelsea made dance company. We are so proud of her. Her really good friend Maddie made it to so that will be super fun for them. Now I don't have to be nervous for her anymore. Yeah!!!!!!!! Chelsea. GOOD JOB!!!!!!!!!!