caught up with a good friend from Ottawa, who's living in Melbourne right now. took a flight down to Melbourne, and caught a train to Mornington, where she was staying with a friend. It was great catching up with her, and seeing a familar face.

Well Donna O'Connor you'll be pleased to know the first place we visited outside Melbourne was Philip Island to see the Penguin parade! The Island was really pretty, we could easily have spent a few days there. We went down to the tip of the island on the first night to see the parade of Little penguins onto the beach, there was thousands of the...

Today was incredible. All 35 of us woke up feeling much better and headed to an absolutely incredible pancake breakfast that Scott and Darren (another Aussie) set up for us. We were then thrown into two buses without being told where we were going. We ended up in a hilly region with sparse trees and high grass. Kangaroos were everywhere in packs...