Last Post of the Year!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas!! Merrick and I went to a little town about 1 1/2 hours north of Perth.  Lancelin is one of the windiest places I have ever been in my entire life! The winds were so bad that it was so difficult for us to set our camp up. We probably had about 5 other groups camping around us and no one wanted to help.  The only help we got was from a guy named Ray who came over and just handed us a hammer and walked away.  We thought we were going to be camping on the beach, but it was too windy we went and stayed at a caravan park and camped near the beach.  We were basically in a redneck parking lot.  I didn't fit in.

After getting set up we just sat around, ate a lot of food, drank beer, and walked on the beach.  It was really relaxing and good to just get out of the city for a little bit.  It never really felt like Christmas.  Everyone that was camping out didn't seem excited about Christmas.  We were on the phone with family  listening to the kids opening presents, sending pictures back and forth, and just trying to be apart of Christmas.  We got pretty homesick while we were out there and were planning a trip home and talking about when we would be heading back. We can't wait to be back and see everyone!!

We were going to stay three nights, but it was just so windy and hot we just came home the day after Christmas and relaxed at the house.  All in all a great, relaxing Christmas.

Our Christmas presents to each other is going to SE Asia!!  We bought our tickets about a month ago and we leave in 2 weeks!  Our first destination is Singapore for a couple of days, then we'll catch a flight to Bangkok and then start the backpacking all over SE Asia.  We don't have anything set in stone. We are just going to go with the wind and see where it takes us!! We are super excited and I can't wait to go shopping!!

Hey guys it's Merrick again....everything is still going great as far as im concerned.  I wish you guys could have seen pam putting up that tent with me, a complete animal.  We are definitely ready for some vacation time and really missed everyone over the holidays.  Congrats to the Dumits on having the baby and we will see all you guys soon.  Love and miss all of you! - Merrick

Hope everyone has a safe and Happy New Years!!