Australia

We were in Adelaide Australia for two weeks in February and March. It was such an incredible adventure. We got to "cuddle a koala" and feed a bunch of kangaroos at a nature preserve up in the Adelaide hills. It was absolutely incredible. Trevor, Goa (Otto's name for his Gram), and I were beyond thrilled...Otto was a little unimpressed as you can see from these photos. HA! As excited as I am to take him around the world I have to temper my expectations that he will be as interested in sight seeing as I am. At least he'll have pictures! What he was thrilled about was the beach. That child is a sand and water loving fish. Both the air and the water were warm so I really enjoyed it as well. Otto doesn't mind the cold water which bodes well for his future summering in Montana. He also loved the fountians on the boardwalk of the beach. He would run around to each spicket and try to catch the water that shot out. It was really fun to watch. Another highlight of our trips to Glenelg-Adelaide's beach town-was the tram that we took to get there. Otto was absolutely in heaven while we road the tram. In fact he loved it so much that he would get upset and cry everytime we got off. During our whole trip to Australia including the taxi ride to LAX, the bus rides from terminal to terminal at the Sydney airport, and the taxies and buses and shuttle vans we road in while in town Otto was 100% OBSESSED with riding in cars. He would get so excited to get in and cry when we got out and pretty much said "CAAAARRRR" our entire trip. Now that we are home he is still pretty obsessed with cars but our time in Australia was the absolute height of his love for cars. We also frequented a bunch of the parks in town. It was really fun walking around looking for playgrounds and once we got there we realized that all the equpiment was so different from the stuff we have in the States. All the new play structures made a routine trip to the playground a bit of an adventure. The photo of Trevor and Otto sitting in a car was at one playgound that had a huge helicopter that kids could climb in. It was very cool and this time Otto was as excited about it as we were! We had suuuuuuucccccchhhh a great vacation. I'll post another Australian edition and write about our second week.