Just posting a few pictures of Perth...





The city scape from the Swan River that runs right through the city.









Perth had a bunch of X-mas decorations up around the city that were beautiful at night (even though this picture stinks). It's a bit strange, even being from Texas, at how warm it is coming up to the holidays. You can't really see it, but Mike and Amanda are messing around in the bottom of the picture.








No big deal, but we kind of know them. Claire and Whit posing with their silver.












This one's for the laaaadieeez. =)

4th and 7th...

WFDF World's Club Championships are over and we didn't win it. Doublewide was confident with our tournament play going into the Quarterfinals, but may have looked too far into the future because we did not finish our game strong enough against Thong (from Australia) to advance to the semi-finals. The path was set for Doublewide success, but we did not follow it truly. We followed our quarterfinals loss with an emotional loss to Clapham (from London) to end a low day for Doublewide. After a hearty night of partying we came out to the fields to play our final game of the tournament against Mephisto (from Canada). The game came down to ultimate point and KG and I put out most of the players who were playing their last point of Doublewide. I had the honor of playing with Don, Stew, Mackie, and Tal for their final point. After a huck from Stew to me, which I caught just outside of the endzone, and a swing pass, Mackie caught the winning goal. It was a great ending to an amazing tournament. I am going to miss playing with the veterans of Doublewide who have been my friends and teammates for 6 years.

Cara and Ozone took care of business during the tournament to give themselves a shot to play in the finals, but came up short after an early game lead against MUDD (from Nippon) in the semi-finals. Ozone battled for 6 days of two games per day (except for one day) to finish just out of the medal placing at fourth.

Cara and I took a trip to the Scarborough Beach with some Doublewide and Ozone friends after the finals on Saturday to unwind from the tournament and change our mind-set to the adventure of traveling throughout the country. The waves were huge and powerful and the Indian Ocean was a perfect temperature. It took a little longer for Cara to be convinced of getting in, but once she did she did not regret it. The waves cheered all of us up and we laughed and smiled while body surfing and getting pummeled by wave after wave. I can't wait to get back to the beach.

That is all for now. Cara, Selah, Whit, Claire, and I will be renting a car tomorrow morning and driving north for a 5 day camping adventure.

The adventure truly begins!
love,
Tank

G'day!

Uh...I'm afriad there has been a terrible mistake. Through some terrible twist of fate, I think I was born on the wrong continent. Everyone here, from the custom official to the constuction worker is: laid back, funny, and ridiculously good looking. I mean, come on people! I belong here! =)

We made it safe and sound to Perth and have been living it up since we arrived. The travels were long and uneventful. We had a 12 hour layover in San Fransisco so took the BART into Berkeley, ate some Indian food (bad idea before a 18 hour flight, in case you were wondering), and then walked four miles to eat at an In and Out Burger for dinner...delicious!

We were met at the airport by Claire and Whit who were staying with Whit's 6th cousin, once removed, James and Lisa. They invited us over for dinner and it was incredible. It was such a nice way to start the trip hanging out with a family and eating a huge dinner complete with wine and cheese. They had three adorable little aussie girls, and we had a lot of fun hanging out with them and teaching them magic tricks (Whit). Endless thanks to James, Lisa, Georgina, Chartlotte, Elizabeth, and the pets! We had a blast.

The tournament festivities start today, so we're going to the opening ceremonies and then hitting the beach. Perth is beautiful...I'll post pictures next time.

Cheers, (teehee)
Cara =P
ps Tank here. I've updated this post to show you a picture of DW with Nomadic Tribe (from Nippon) after our game on the 3rd day of the tournament. These guys were a very spirited team and we had a great spirit circle following the game even with our language barrier.