Long time no hear

Hi everyone,

So im finally updated this blog after constant reminders by my lovely man Daniel. So here it is.
Well....... what has happened since october last year?

Well we went back home for christmas, i think we thought it would be to difficult to move countries and miss christmas all in one year so we had to go back.

On December 2nd we welcome our 3rd niece into the world - Tia Johanna Joy Blakeman, weighing at a healthy 8lbs 8oz. A little sister to Luka and Xavier!!

And we arrived into New Zealand on the 14th December, and because it was so long ago i cant remember how long we stayed for but we got back to the land of the red soil in the beginning of January 2013. It was fantastic to see everyone and see that nothing hasnt really changed and that we don't sound like aussies yet

Heres some xmassy photos for you:

Sorry we didnt take that many photos then i remember.

So after christmas we got back into the swing of things - back to the daily grind.

Talk to you soon with the next blog

Hi all,

Here are the photos from our trip away up North. We travelled up to Cairns on friday 28th and stayed for two nights, then we travelled further up north on Sunday and spent the day looking around at the markets and we headed back to Cairns on monday where we did some awesome shopping and then slowly made our way back on Tuesday.

Enjoy the photos :) there plenty more where these came from but these are what we think are the best

 We are on the road heading north to Cairns

 Along the journey there were several sugar plantatations this is just one of many

 Just a gorgesous photo

 This is our ship for the day - Off to the GREAT BARRIER REEF :)

 A rather flash looking hotel over looking the port of Cairns

 Inside our ship and some of our fellow passengers

 Looking back onto Cairns and our little dingy that followed us the whole day 

Sarah enjoying the cruise on the sundeck. Our posse for the rest of the day

 On our way to the reef, 2hr cruise out to the 1st reef

 Sarah preparing to take the BIG leap :)

 "just keep swimming, swimming, swimming, just keep swimming" (From finding Nemo)

 Fishies

 Hello from Daniel

 Fishy eating the coral or something

 Giant clam!

 Daniel floating and admiring the coral

 Some divers exploring the reef. We reckon we saw just as much as them. We also had the option to Scuba dive but we chose not too

 Our ship from sea

 Just relaxing in the ocean

 Gigantic maori Wrasse. they are literally the size of us! Daniel goes in for a closer look

 up close

 A cool looking crevice to the center of the earth we saw

 We found Nemo and his father

Some pancake coral

The fishys dining table

All aboard! The view over one of the reef's

 Dan enjoying the sun

 Nothing but the big wide ocean and Daniel bobbing up and down!

Out to sea

All good from here

 About to do boom netting, no one wanted to be anchor men, as ya needed to be big and strong. So Dan stepped up :)

 Hold on boys

 Bringing our strong boys back to the boat

 Enjoying a piece of fruit and wine on a journey home

 Our posse and our gear

All the ships coming back to shore

 What a wonderful day!