Hey Guys! Long time, no update. I know me bad... Anyways, a lot has happened since the last time I updated, not the least of which was Easter, so Happy (very) Late Easter to everyone. This was a pretty big weekend for me, actually, and one of the main reasons I have been putting off updating for so long is because I was waiting on pictures from that weekend. Well still no luck on some of the pictures but I included some of the ones I have! Anyways, I left with a couple of my friends early Friday morning (1:20am) on the overnight greyhound headed north to mission beach. Once there we had to chill at the bus stop for a couple of hours waiting for a shuttle to pick us up to go white water rafting on the Tully River. The rafting was Amazing! It was mostly class 4 rapids, and we almost flipped our boat, and it was epically awesome. I really enjoyed it and didn't even blink when I skinned my elbow up, and broke my swimsuit. Well actually the broken swimsuit did take a little bit of work to make decent for the rest of the journey, but we figured it out. Any ways, these are the pictures I don't have so no luck for you guys here, but I am including a pic of the bus stop we were waiting at for forever because it had a giant cassowary statue in front of it that was just hilarious.

Later that night, we checked into our hostel which wasn't too bad and explored Cairns, pronounced Canz, a little bit. We had some really good portugese for dinner and looked around the night markets which were right next door to our hostel. We also went to bed pretty early because we were all exhausted after a full day of rafting, and we had to get up early the next day to go snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef! Snorkeling was amazing and I got some pretty decent shots on an underwater camera that I had brought. I've attached a couple of those. We went to two different dive sites and both were pretty amazing. As a note I'm hoping to finish my open water diving certification within the next month so that the next time I make it up to Cairns I can go diving instead of snorkeling!

That night we spent a lot more time shopping, and I managed to buy most of my souveniers for my family. I even managed to find Harley tshirts for the Rents. There were also a couple of snakes at the night markets which I held, which was a lot of fun. For some reason, I only have a picture of me holding the little one, so you guys are just going to have to imagine me holding the one that you can see in the background of the pic below!

Another update should be following shortly with what I did last weekend, including a trip to the beach and Billabong Sanctuary! Ok so I don't know what's going on with the pics, so I guess those will be added later in a separate post.