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The Maldives In Pictures

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We’re back home and still getting used to it, but it is great to get back to some normalcy.  We do still have a bunch of stuff to post – including getting to the rest of my wrap ups and some other posts…I’ll probably try to do one on some of the tricks we used to book all the stuff.  So keep checking back every now and then if you are interested in any of that.

In the Maldives, we stayed at the Park Hyatt (Hadahaa Island).  It was incredible.  Check out the pictures to get an idea of what it was like.

http://justinandalyce.smugmug.com/Other/Maldives/28643728_qhkrRk#!i=2429762420&k=K7zwhfv

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The Great Ocean Road and South Australia In Pictures

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Here are the pictures from the Great Ocean Road and South Australia portion of the trip.  I put a bunch in this post – probably too many.  So, this post may be slow to load.  The link to all the pictures in full size is below:

http://justinandalyce.smugmug.com/Other/Great-Ocean-Road-and-South/28486539_W9V4sX#!i=2413731568&k=CBxDDpJ

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Australia and New Zealand Wrap Up

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I’m working on getting some of my wrap ups done and will probably have more time in the coming days, but – until then – here are some thoughts from the second portion of our trip.

Trip Itinerary (click to enlarge)

Trip Itinerary (click to enlarge)

Arriving in Australia was great (outside of the fact that we felt like we had been run over by a truck).  Being able to have conversations with everyone around you for the first time in nearly a month was a very welcome return to normalcy.  Being able to look at a menu without being confused at all was another welcomed change…Outside of the fact that Aussies call appetizers “entrees” and entrees “mains.”

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Melbourne, Australia In Pictures

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Sorry for my absence posting lately…Between all the driving, managing the pictures, and keeping up with the planning – I’ve fallen behind.

Here are the pictures from Melbourne.  There are not that many, as we were only there for 3 days and did not take a whole lot of pictures.  I’ll try to upload some below; I know there have been some problems with opening up pictures on the site.  I’m not really sure why that is, but I’ll try to look in to it.  Though as always, it is best to view the pictures on the smugmug site.  Here is the link:

http://justinandalyce.smugmug.com/Other/Melbourne-Australia/28452745_Jf9khx#!i=2410186736&k=jCz2ZpM

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Napa 2010 Retro Review

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I typed this up a couple years ago after we got back from Napa.  It’s long, but I had some friends that would be travelling there soon.  Plus, I like having the reports (same as now with the wrap ups).  We have since been back to Napa, so it is fun to go back and read the report.

We should be back to current stuff tomorrow.  Here is Napa 2010 with some pictures from Alyce’s facebook account:

 Napa – May 2010

I enjoyed this trip more than I was expecting too.  Going into it I was excited about all of the eating out plans and thought touring/tasting the wineries would just be a filler during the day to get to the meals…I was wrong.

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New Zealand – South Island In Pictures

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The South Island of New Zealand was incredible…We took a ton of pictures.  The link to all of them is below – there are a lot of them…

Feel free to peruse them and only pick out some to look at; I may have got carried away with the picture taking with the unbelievable scenery.

I tried to upload less pictures directly to this site as it was causing problems previously with all the pictures on the blog posts.  As always, all of the pictures are available at the link in full size:

http://justinandalyce.smugmug.com/Other/New-Zealand-South-Island/28213758_DHGkcK#!i=2386146239&k=mrxZ2GR

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The North Island of New Zealand In Pictures

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New Zealand is beautiful.  I think the North Island pictures came out very well, but they still do not do the country justice.  Pictures are just not the same as seeing it in person.

And I am definitely behind on wrap ups, but I will hopefully get to those soon.  That said, I’m not in a huge rush because Alyce has been summing up things very well in her daily posts.

Finally, while the North Island of New Zealand was very scenic, the South Island is on another level…We’ll get to those pictures soon.

Here is the link to all the pictures in full size.  Some are shown in the post below:

http://justinandalyce.smugmug.com/Other/New-Zealand-North-Island/28060144_KpqJv6

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