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| The Brisbane River Floods that occured in January 2011 were devastating to so many people. Some people lost their homes and others lost their lives. |
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| The City Cat and City Ferry service was down for 1 month after the floods. On February 12, 2011 they had a "Ferry Parade" to celebrate the return of service. |
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| Abby wanted to celebrate her birthday in Australia at Movie World and the O'Neill family was kind enough to join us. |
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| Tahlia, Abby and Mikayla |
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| Abby's first rollar coaster ride!! |
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| The race is on. |
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| Abby started swim lessons at Hampton Swim School. Most Australians are good swimmers and Abby took to it right away. |
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| Lessons are offered all year round in the heated pool. |
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| Tahlia and Abby |
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| In Australia, they call preschool kindergarten and Abby started at Scott Street in West End. |
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| We took a helicopter from the main island of Fiji to Tokoriki Island. It had rained the previous day and all morning and we had to wait several hours for the weather to clear before we could fly. |
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| We shared the helicopter with Sandy and Aaron from California. |
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| Our bure was right on the beach. |
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| Hibiscus |
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| Crab Races |
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| And the winner..........OJ Simpson from the USA |
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| We took a kayak out one day to the other side of the island. There are 2 resorts, one family friendly and the other for adults. We heard someone calling Chris's name and it was the couple we shared the helicopter with!! Sandy and Aaron had their own bure and private pool, it was gorgeous!! They were so kind and we enjoyed talking with them! |
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| Blue Sea Star |
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| Foot bath outside our bure |
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| Nightly torch lighting ritual |
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| Fijian girls performing hula |
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| Abby made friends with Jojo. There was also a cat on the island with the same name. |
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| Goodbye Fiji |
