Hey there!! I hope you all are having an awesome week. Its been going fantastic here.
Yesterday after I wrote to you, Mama and I went for a walk on Manly Beach. We got us a coffee and just spent about an hour watching surfers and volleyball players. I LOVE the ocean! It’s so peaceful and relaxing! After our walk, we went back to our hotel room and took it easy for a little bit. Later we went out for another walk and Mama got her some ice cream!
This morning we all ate breakfast at our hotel. It was a pretty great breakfast buffet! Before breakfast, Clay and Jason took a wrong staircase in the hotel and actually got locked between all the floors. An employee of the hotel finally heard them banging on the doors of the staircase and let them out. We figured out that they had taken the fire escape instead of the regular stairs and all the doors are locked in the fire escape. They were panicked! That exact thing has happened to me before so I know that what they were feeling in the stairwell. Later today we were laughing about it but I know it wasn’t funny to them at the time.
After breakfast, We flew out of Sydney and arrived in Alice Springs late morning. Alice Springs is a very remote place. It’s mainly desert but again, they have a McDonalds and a KFC! We ate at McDonalds for lunch! The menu was actually a little different from the menu back home. I had a sweet chili seared chicken wrap. It was REALLY great.
The weather was PERFECT today! I think it was in the 80s!
After we arrived and got settled, the Denver Broncos Cheerleaders, Mama, and I all went to the grocery store to buy groceries for the next few days. We are all staying in military housing here and the cheerleaders and I are staying in houses beside each other. (All of the cheerleaders are SO SWEET! I’m very excited to get to know them this week.) The grocery store here was kinda different from what I am used to but the big difference was the price of food. A 20 ounce diet coke was over $3.00! I understand why though. They have to ship the food in because we are 1000 miles from anywhere. So, it just costs more to get it here.
After we bought our groceries, we brought them to our houses and headed out for an Opal demonstration. Opal is a beautiful stone that I have seen and heard about my entire life but I didn’t know much about it. We were taught all about Opal and were actually able to carve and shine our own Opal stone. Mama’s stone is beautiful and will look gorgeous in a ring someday. I think mine will be more suited for a necklace one day. After the Opal demonstration, we came back to our houses for about an hour and relaxed before having a potluck dinner with the military families here. The potluck was SO GOOD! We had all kinds of stuff and it was so nice to spend a little time with everyone.
After dinner, we made our way up to a mountain to feed the wallabies!! The wallabies definitely looked like a small kangaroo! They were pretty cute. The closest they got to us was about 5 feet away. (It was pretty close.) We had feed that we threw out for them to eat. I was a little nervous because they are wild animals and I had no idea if they liked us or not. I’m sure they were nervous too. I took lots of pic of them but I’m not sure how they turned out yet.
I don’t have internet service here but going to look for it so I can post my updates for you! Tomorrow is our first show!! Cant wait!
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