Mountain Top

Last week Jason's parents joined us in Australia and Saturday we attempted to check out Craig's Hut first-hand (The Man from Snowy River), which is a few hours from Melbourne. We made it up to the mountain, but were disappointed to find the dirt road to the hut was closed from a mudslide. We made the most of our day though and took a short hike/walk to the top of Mt. Buller, Victoria's most popular "ski field" where we had beautiful views of the valley below and the high country of where they shot some of the movies. We also watched several old & new cars that were in a rally speed by (which closed the road we needed to get back down on).

The next day we went to visit the native animals of Australia at Healesville Sanctuary, drove through the pretty hill country of the Dandenong mountains and stopped to feed these parrots including some other varieties and larger cockatoos.

This week has been a busy one with packing up our shipment to be picked up today and preparing to fly home next Thursday. Yesterday we had a fun last visit with the doctor and checked out baby again with an ultrasound before coming home--SHE's doing well (yes, they verified again that we're having a little girl:) and is in the 80th percentile already, yikes! This means she's about 4lbs right now and if she continues to grow at this pace, we could have an upper 8 pounder on our hands to deliver in two months! Let's hope she comes a week early:)