Sunday, April 5, 2009

Australia /Asia in a nutshell

The hotel where he stayed in Singapore.
"The Browns"
Driving the sailboat, doesn't he look handsome? Do you see the opera house?

Rand has been home now for 10 days and we are so glad. He had such a busy trip and now has been crazy busy trying to get caught up with the work he couldn't do while he worked all day and all night while he was away. He loved Austrlia. The climate, the greenery, the people, the food-other than a bad rare cooked Kangaroo. He even got so see some of our greatest friends and fellow T-birds who now live in Melbourne Australia. He also got to do some sailing around the Sydney opera house. Wow! I would be jealous except I don't think I could handle a flight that long unless I were heavily sedated. He didn't however enjoy Singapore or China all that much because he somehow became violently ill and needless to say had to visit every bathroom that ever was. I said to him at least they weren't squatty potties, but I guess some of them were. Not fun. Being the animal enthusiast that he is though, he loved seeing exotic animals just out in the open just a few feet away from him. There was a park that he walked through in Sydney that had thousands of fruits bats up in the trees eating and the "droppings" from the fruit they ate would fall making it feel like it was sprinkling rain. He said the wing span on them was about 3 feet. Crazy. Apparently this is very normal. We hope he doesn't have to go back too soon, and for not as long next time.

3 comments:

Cody said...

Sounds like a cool experience, minus the sickness. Yay for him being back

Cody said...

p.s this is Laura

Tyra said...

Ethan has made amazing progress in school. It was fun to see him earn his award. I have no doubt that in coming years he will be receiving more and hopefully a scholarship too. The sky is the limit.

We are happy Randall is home and feeling better. It's tough being without a husband and daddy!