The blog post to end all blog posts

Hopefully this isn’t actually the blog post to end all blog posts, as I do plan on writing more after this. I just mean this should be the best blog post ever.

So this is what you missed:

Friday, June 29

Visited Freemantle, which was a pretty cool place. We toured a prison that was quarried and built by the prisoners, which seems pretty efficient. It held some of the first convicts to be sent to Western Australia, although most of them were sent to the other side (at least that’s what I thought they said, I could be wrong). We also visited an open market, which was neat. There are not a lot of places like it in the States. We also went on a Ferris wheel and planned to go to a place with really good fish and chips, however it closed, and so did everywhere else and we ended up eating fast food in the city (I hate the city… and fast food. So obviously I did not enjoy that part of the night very much).

That's Ferris wheel

Monday, July 2

This morning we got up and kayaked about 4 or so miles. We went out on the ocean to a little rock and saw a bunch of seals. The seals seemed territorial at first, but they actually were quite playful and followed us all the way back to shore. What makes us even more awesome for doing it was that there was a shark attack just 3 days prior at the same beach. The shark attacked a kayaker, so we knew he was out to get us. Sadly, I did not get any pictures of the seals (my camera is not waterproof), but here's the aftermath:

A kayak and I

Look at all that beautiful sand on me. I failed to mention our failed boat launch. Sam jumped in the kayak (we had a shared one, pictured above) before we had made it past the waves breaking, so then when a wave crashed on the kayak, he jumped out while I got nailed by the kayak and dragged my face along the sand.

Afterwards, we went to a park and fed some birds:

Those white ones everywhere were the ones we tried to avoid feeding. Because look at how overpopulated they are. Plus they're really mean. And not as pretty as the green or pink ones.

Wednesday, July 4

Did not celebrate Independence Day. Went tracting and found an awesome family. They were from Brazil and were so nice, but spoke very little English.

Friday, July 6

Went offroading to a beach and had a huge bonfire there.

Friday, July 13

Went tracting again and found another potential investigator, afterwards finally saw kangaroos. And like 20 of them, no less.

Saturday, July 14

After running around the mall finding some awesome birthday presents, and then going to great lengths to retrieve my long-lost pants from a friend’s house, we finally hit the road to drive to Bunbury, about 2 hours south of Perth. It took a little longer as we had to pick up Darcy (my homie) from the hospital, where one of his friends is (hopefully) recovering. When we got there we were just in time for the birthday bonfire. Some of the highlights of the night include meeting someone else from Orange County (my birthplace), borrowing (stealing) a car and returning it without being noticed, and not sleeping for hours until 5 am when I finally crashed on a trampoline.

Well that brings us up to now and I’ll try to keep you more updated.