Summa Summa Summa time!

Hello from Melbourne. Just to start with if anyone has been following the news from the wildfires out here, Jarrod and I are safe and sound. Fortunately we are quite far away from the fires (about an hour driving) but it's still a really sad time here in Melbourne. A lot of people have lost their lives and houses and a lot of native wildlife have been killed and displaced. I guess having experienced the fires in San Diego in 2007 it all feels a little too familiar. But not all has been lost as there are some happy stories. One of which that has been floating around the news here in Australia is about Sam the Koala, a wild Koala who made friends with the firefighters.  Check out this amazing video!

In happier news, I've been having quite the eventful Summer here in Australia. Though the temperatures were soaring the last few weeks and we found ourselves without air conditioning in 110F conditions, I have been fortunate enough to go away on a few summer getaways in January and February. In mid-January I joined my friends Jess, Fi, and Kimberly up in Queensland on the Gold Coast for a week of sun, relaxation, and hitting the town! It was nice to meet such a nice group of girls to get away with and make some lasting friendships! 

Girls in Broadbeach out on the town

We then decided that we all had so much fun together we would go away AGAIN, this time to local beach town of Lorne just along the coast outside of Melbourne for Australia Day Weekend (Australia's equivalent of 4th of July). Needless to say us girls have been having a blast together and I feel so fortunate to have made such great friends all over the world.