{"id":353,"date":"2010-05-23T19:55:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T19:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2010-05-23T19:55:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T19:55:21","slug":"from-the-land-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/from-the-land-down-under\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Land Down Under!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some days I just wake up painfully aware of how different my life would be had I never met my husband. Besides the fact I would have never had the opportunity to become a photographer, all of my dreams of traveling the world would have forever remained repeated and depressing recitals of the word \u201csomeday.\u201d Instead, a few days ago, I happily returned from my second International adventure with my husband: a 16-day trip to Australia, New Zealand and the Cook Islands.<\/p>\n

I have so many wonderful photos and memories to share; I have estimated it will take at least two blogs to get everything in. So without further adieu, our journey began in Sydney, Australia. We arrived at the Hotel at the Park in Sydney, and I didn\u2019t even get in the lobby door before breaking out the camera. Clients who know me are sure to note that, on the job or off \u2014 true to form \u2014 I take pictures of EVERYTHING!<\/p>\n

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Our room wasn\u2019t quite ready yet so we took a walk in the park to see our first Australia sights. These next few images are of St. Mary\u2019s Cathedral and Hyde Park. Do you think I\u2019m happy to be there?<\/p>\n

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The second day in Sydney we forewent the popular Sydney Zoo in favor of Koala Park, as the smaller park was more interactive and limited to wildlife that is indigenous to the region. We of course wouldn\u2019t discover that the Web site\u2019s promised Koala \u201ccuddles\u201d would be one-fingered-Koala-ass-petting or that the $5-a-bag \u201cKangaroo Food,\u201d would be real-life, repackaged Multigrain Cheerios, haha. I definitely don\u2019t regret going there over the zoo, though, because I think I\u2019d have gone completely nuts if I had to take all of my pictures of these gorgeous creatures through wires and crowds of people. Below are two marsupials. I forget what the mousey-looking one is called, but the second is a Wallaroo.<\/p>\n

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At long last we got to the good stuff! Before I left I promised some clients pictures of those cute not-so-cuddly Koalas. So if you\u2019re reading, here they are!<\/p>\n

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Oh yeah, and this is me getting an absolute thrill out of feeding the Kangaroos. I couldn\u2019t believe just how gentle and sweet they were! I will confess, though, it didn\u2019t stop me from trying just one little bite of Kangaroo meat at the Sydney tower later that night \ud83d\ude1b Judge me if you want, but at least I didn\u2019t bring home any of those Kangaroo-Nad bottle openers that seemed to be sold at every single gift shop. And yes, \u201cNad\u201d means what you think it means. Poor little Kangas!<\/p>\n

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Our third day in Sydney we went on a harbor cruise. The food was horrendous but we definitely got a view or two of the Opera House I don\u2019t think you can get from any other spot than on the water. But before I show you that, you should get excited for the first ever picture I\u2019ve posted of my dear sweet husband! I thought it an appropriate time to share, considering my introduction to this blog entry, and how just plain grateful I am to him for taking me on this trip.<\/p>\n

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Isn\u2019t he handsome?! This Opera House picture is probably way boring next him \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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So that\u2019s all for Sydney Folks! Stay tuned for South Island New Zealand, Black Water Rafting Waitomo Caves and the Cook (aka Crab) Islands!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some days I just wake up painfully aware of how different my life would be had I never met my husband. Besides the fact I would have never had the opportunity to become a photographer, all of my dreams of traveling the world would have forever remained repeated and depressing recitals of the word \u201csomeday.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurenbrimhallphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}