Popcorn and Penguins

Popcorn, Hot chocolate, and Penguins? BEST DATE NITE EVER!

Man,  Mr Murphy sure out did himself here.  Not sure how he is going to out do this one back in the states.  He took me to see these little teeny tiny penguins (they are actually called Little Penguins) that come up on shore, and run to their burrows on land with their buddies... like all of their 735 buddies.  And they are all out in the wild... just doing their thing, letting us crazy people watch them.  They were so close I could reach down and touch them.  oooooo they were so cute waddling everywhere... i love a good waddle.  but there we were, sitting outside with some hot chocolate and popcorn just watching these little munchkins run everywhere.  i almost cried i was so excited.  it was such a cool thing to experience... we froze our batooties off, and really only were there for about 2 hours - but when you walk to your car and you see a sign that says "check under car for penguins before you leave"... your heart pretty much melts.  i will never forget it.

it was our travel day, and as if the gods were saying, "dont leave Sydney" the rain came down harder than nails for our ride to the airport earlier that morning.  the roads had flooded and we spent a good hour watching the meter climb dollar for dollar thinking - we are totally missing our flights.  by the grace of those same gods, we barely made that flight, took our teeny tiny seat and endured an early, rainy, cramped flight to Melbourne.  needless to say - we were needing a good night - thank you penguinos.  we then got our rental car and took on that adventure. Mr. Murphy thankfully offered up the first day of driving and took on all the learning curves for us as a family.  my job was simply not to get us lost, and to constantly say "left hand side of the road, left hand side of the road" in an australian accent.  well, i failed.  we were lost within minutes, and i also had a full on conversation with col convinced he should be on the right side of the road.  I even almost had him convinced.  stupid american.   but he did such a good job keeping us safe, and learning the ropes.  we passed some wild kangaroos in the road (yup, it was as cool as it sounds) - picked up some wine and snacks for dinner and kept a mellow night in after the penguins.

today we spent the morning driving to the sorrento/queenscliff ferry - and it seems that missing ferries is turning into a habit because we got to this town sorrento and just loved it.  we said no thanks to the ferry waiting and walked along the beach, and had some cheese and crackers and beer on the mini pier.  we then caught a ferry an hour later, watched a bunch of dolphins swim right up next to it and laid in the sun eating yummy sandwiches.  then we drove from queenscliff to the adorable town of Torquay - the entrance to the Great Ocean Road and drove along the cliffs to Bells Beach.  We hopped out of the car, watched some surfers do their thing -then headed on over to our place.  Our first AirBnB experience:)  We were greeted by our lovely host Lian, and she showed us to our room and told us to be ready for some yummy breakky in the morning (so far AirBnB rocks)!  Plus she has 3 adorable dogs we get to play with, and I think we were needing some dog love as we usually get back home (miss you indy, tula, daisy, and milo)!

Right now Cols on skype trying to get us a new kindle... one of us knuckle heads already broke our other one - and I am just sipping on some emergency gearing up for the night.  It's going to be a wild one folks, we're gonna head into town for some pizza, grab some ice cream to go, and snuggle up to watch a movie.  Driving here takes it out of us!!:)  We'll update you about Melbourne tomorrow!!

 Beers in Sorrento

 Ready for some Penguins!

 Sorrento!!

Beach kids in Sorrento