TUGGLES - Installment 1

For some reason, I have NO pictures of the first 2 days the Tuggles were here.  None from the first day at the beach - they were such troopers!  And then again on our Sunday excursion to the Blue Mountains and Wildlife Park.  I think all the pics were taken on Katie and Colin's camera.  I guess everyone has seen pictures (many installments) of these places (over and over again), so I am assuming nobody will be mad about it.

I'll just recap:
Saturday - Tuggle's arrive.  YAY!  There was some hanging out at our apartment, snuggling with baby Lucas, and playing with Auntie Katie while the guys went to pick up the keys to the apartment just down the street.  Then a little nap time, and then BEACH!  Devon went surfing while we hung out in the sun.  Welcome to Oz!

Sunday - Poor Tuggle's had to endure a Gifford family road trip.  Again, day two - TROOPERS.  Drove 2 hours to eat at the pizza place we liked so much with Devon's parents.  It was only an hour out of the way.  :)  Lucas wasn't super thrilled to be in the car.  I don't blame him, he was stuck in an airplane for 20+ hours the day before.  Surprisingly, my kids did very well.  I think they wanted to let Luke take all the glory that day.  Such nice children they are!  After pizza, we stopped to see the Three Sisters.  This time it was not covered in fog.  But alas, I didn't get any pictures.  Good thing the internet has a heavy supply.  At least I can check it off my list - I have witnesses too in case you don't believe me.  After the Three sisters, another 40 minutes to Featherdale.  Destination: feed kangaroos.  That's sort of all we really wanted to do that day, but we managed to make it a marathon day in the minivan.  With only an hour left before the park closed we busted through, petting, feeding, viewing, all of the awesome animals.  Love Featherdale the 3rd time just as much as the first.  Overall a good day.  Not sure if the Tuggle's will join us on anymore road trips anytime soon.  :)

Monday - Set off to Wildlife world for MORE ANIMALS!

Katie and Drew

Snuggling on the ferry

Little did we know, while Katie and I were out having fun, Colin was on a mission to find free wifi.  Poor Colin - Australia just doesn't have free wifi, or free anything for that matter.  He ended up walking all over Kirribilli with no luck.  So he took a cab to the closest Starbucks to pay for internet to find out that McDonalds had free wifi.  Went to Mc D's and found that it was super slow and wouldn't let him download anything anyway.  So much for that.  A few days later, he had me take this picture.

For the rest of the week, he just used our wireless and he was happy.  Ah Colin, internet addiction is rough!