Tenille's visit Part 1

A  couple weeks ago my little sister Tenille came out for a quick visit during the American "spring break". We were lucky with timing and weather. She arrived on a Saturday morning and it just so happened to be a 3 day weekend (labour day), so I left Stan with the kids, grabbed a beach tent and we headed out to Wilsons Prom (a national park just two hours south east from Melbourne). It was the last week of summer and around 80/90 degrees the whole time.  

Once we were up in the park we ran out of petrol and decided to head back to the city to fill up. The petrol stations were closed until morning (it was maybe 10:00 pm) so we decided to camp out on a nice patch of grass we found next to the road. By morning we realized we had slept out on someones lawn (seriously we were next to their mail box off the side of the road. I expected Tenille to be exhausted after her 24 hour flight and able to sleep anywhere but she was up most of the night listening to the Australian wildlife (kookaburra's sound like cranky monkeys in the early morning), and there were a couple wallabies jumping around our tent between 2-4:00 am.

Although this is a one step pop-up tent, we apparently struggled setting it up in the dark :-)

After the sun came up, we ran back to fill up with petrol and then drove back into the national park. We spent the whole day on the beach, running/ working out, boogie boarding, tanning, reading and listening to music, talking and I have to admit (especially since Stan had the kids) it was an actual sisters trip/vacation!

Here we are after a hike looking at the sunset-

Here we are at squeaky beach 

Here we are watching the sunset-

After watching someone dislocate their shoulder, Tenille wanted to try sand-boarding  down this hill on a boogie board. She was successful...and we scored someones boogie board!

After the end of three days at Wilson's prom, we started driving back to Melbourne, and decided to stop off at Phillips Island to see the Fairy Penguins run from the ocean to their burrows at the Penguin Parade. 

It never gets old and Tenille has always loved wildlife (budding biologist) so she enjoyed it more than the average tourist! :-)

We got home around midnight, Thanks Stan for taking the kids!