Christmas in Hong Kong

Hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas holiday! It certainly does not feel like Christmas out here! We miss you all back home!

Australia

We spent 4 days in Sydney and 3 days in Melbourne. Sydney is a gorgeous city. We had a little bit of rain and clouds but lucked out with sunshine most of the time. We were pretty tired the first day we arrived after the long flight, so we didn't do too much. We walked around the city and the harbor the next day, then went to the Aquarium and Wildlife World. We went to the zoo the next day and rode a ferry around the harbor. The zoo is beautifully landscaped and overlooks the harbor and the city of Sydney. We went to Bondi Beach our last day in Sydney, unfortunately it wasn't very sunny that day.

Melbourne is a beautiful city as well, the architecture there is amazing. The wineries we went to in the Yarra Valley were great and the scenery was spectacular, although actually getting to the wineries was a challenge. The directions and street signs in Victoria aren't the greatest. Driving on the other side of the road for the first time wasn't too bad, though. Driving through the countryside and down the Great Ocean Road was beautiful. It reminded me a lot of driving along PCH in California. The only thing I could have done without were all the flies that are all over Australia! Those little pests were everywhere, constantly swarming around everyone. I took a picture of this guy walking in front of us with a bunch of them on his back and flying around his head!

We took a lot of photos so I'm not going to post them all on here because it would take up a lot of space. I uploaded all the photos to our Australia album. If you'd like to see them all click here to go to the album.

Sydney

Melbourne

Driving through the countryside
The vineyards at one of the wineries in the Yarra Valley


Driving along the Great Ocean Road

The Twelve Apostles

Oct/Nov Trip Home

We had a great time visiting back home and it was awesome to finally get to meet a lot of Dave's friends in Jersey! We made a lot of stops - first in NYC since Dave had to work in the office there, then visited his family in Jersey on the weekend, then to Philly for Danielle's wedding, then St. Louis to visit my family, and had breakfast for an hour during our layover in LA on the way back to Hong Kong. Thanks, Chris!

Here are a few photos from New York, St. Louis and the wedding in Philly. You can view all the photos in the albums on the right side of the page.

Walking through Central Park

Pictures from Danielle and Joe's wedding:

Mr. and Mrs. Rushwick!

Danielle with her mom and brother

Erin, Danielle and me

Danielle dancing with her son, Devon

Pictures from St. Louis:

Touring the Anheuser Busch Brewery


Walking through the park to the Arch



At the top!

Views from the top of the arch

Downtown St. Louis

I love fall here!

At my parents houseI love Gracie!