Spiderbusters.

Sooooo we haven’t posted in a while. Not being able to easily post our videos has really put a dent in our master plan to entertain you from ‘down unda”. But, as the great Vince Vaughan reminds us: “Rule #76 ‘No excuses, play like a champion’”. Here’s an update with still photo evidence.

 

We can’t believe we’ve been here for over a month already. Time has flown by between getting drivers’ licenses, staying at the Gold Coast for 2 weeks, starting practice and exploring every mall on the coast when we have time to kill.

We’re really getting into the swing of things now… having a cockatoo in our backyard seems normal, Taylor doesn’t break a sweat when she drives anymore, and we can pick out the different coins and bills without hesitation.  The things we’ll NEVER get used to are the bugs. A massive bug in North America is considered kind of tiny here. Ahhhh

Our backyard buddy

Last week, we got back to our car (which we’ve named Zoe by the way) after practice and Cate started hyperventilating. There was a giant white spider tucked under the door handle. And by giant, we mean the size of a palm. Apparently we’re weaksauce. We didn’t know how to kill it and we weren’t sure if it would jump at us so we scared it under Zoe with a flipper. MISTAKE. We haven’t been sure if it was there or gone for the last week, but we were advised that we should have just killed it because it could hold on through Taylor’s traffic stalls and even on the motorway. *aspeldfja;oeijf!!?!?* It probably started a family under the car. We had kind of forgotten about it until yesterday. We got back to the car again after practice and the same spider was crawling on the car! Are you kidding me? We hope it wasn’t an endangered species because it’s a flat spider in a parking lot now. And Taylor’s flipper has spider guts on it.

No, this is not one of our hands, but the spider was this size...

Also, this week in our first aid class we were informed that 11 of the worlds 12 deadliest snakes live in the bushes around where we live. YAYYYyyy!

We took Bronze Medallion, First Aid and CPR this week so we can hopefully start working as lifeguards and earning beautiful Australian currency. (Which is about to surpass USD…it’s a big deal here but unfortunate for our exchange rate)

The Commonwealth Games were a huge deal too. Australia dominated the medal count. If you want to read about a real comeback story, read about Geoff Huegill, an Aussie swimmer. Pretty awesome: 

http://geoffhuegill.com/about

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Some sad news hit hard to the Synchro world recently. Last week Cate’s dear friend, Meghan Kinney, got diagnosed with cancer. She has been training on the USA National Team as the duet with Cate’s other great friend, Michelle Theriault, to pursue their dream of going to the 2012 Olympics in London. Meghan is a very strong person but with this new battle up ahead, we ask send that you send her the strength and energy to fight this off.

We love you Meghan, and we are always thinking about you! :)

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We’ll work on posting older videos that we had planned soon! Thanks for keeping up with us!!