The Land where Trees are Purple

Now, some of you will have to confirm this for me. But there aren't purple trees back home are there?? After being here for a while... you forget what's normal & what's not. But i think these trees are 1 of my favorite confusers....I love these Jacarandas, because as cheesy & lame as it sounds...it really feels like you're in a most wonderful dream when you see them.

Pappee in Australia

I'm backtracking a bit... But, we've finished our 1st year!! WOOHOO! So, now it's time to post all those things i've been meaning to.
These are pics from Rob's dad's visit in Oct before Rob flew back for his cousin's wedding. And though it seems like we're always playing... these were taken during our 1 week break. Before this we were studying up a storm.
These 1st couple photos are from a ferry ride to a cutesy lil village on the shore. And if you look carefully behind the close up of us is the gorgeous Sydney skyline (although it looks more like a dirty smudge here).
Then we took a nice long road trip down to Canberra. Which (now you've been warned) is officially the crappiest city I have probably ever been to. And definitely the worst capital city HANDS DOWN! It's hard to explain but let's just say the highlight of our trip down there was laughing about how terrible the city was for about 30 minutes straight. But that being said, at the end of the night after driving around for about an hour...we found an awesome little restaurant/bar that was showing the rugby grand finals. And though none of us watch rugby (or footy as they call it) it was good times! I thought i'd seen rugby before, & i knew it was rough....but MAN it is ROUGH! Literally after 4 huge guys have stepped all over every part of the guy's body, he bounces up again & then they do it again. And it's constant action.

We also went to a haunted walk in these caves up in the Blue mountains which i've mentioned before. And it was amazing!!! (refer to the unposed shocked faces below) It was GINORMOUS!! We walked for about 2 hours straight & didn't even see half of the caves.