The Adventures Begin

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So many people don't know what I mean when I say my family runs a Firework's Business in Southeastern Idaho. Well, I thought I'd post a few pictures of our set up and the stand I ran so you could get a better idea of how it all works.

The raw details-- my parents cover Southeast Idaho with 10 stand locations and 5 wholesale accounts. My older brother, Andrew, covers the more mid-north area surrounding Boise with 9 stand locations. My younger brother, Conrad, has three locations in Northern Utah. And Dirk just built his own stand this year to add to the mix. Dirk, Myself, and my 13 year-old brother, Eric, help my parents with the set-up of their business. A couple of us have to stay here instead of branching out. Otherwise, what would my parents do without us?!

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Since we don't work fireworks on Sunday to observe the Sabbath, we attend church and then head out to the Park to enjoy a picnic and listen to the Pocatello Band play Patriotic Music, serve Ice Cream, and pass out American Flags.

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Well, out of three cameras and three weeks we managed to take over 1,000 pictures just in New Zealand. I'd say we loved this country a bit too much! I've narrowed it down to some of my favorites and hope I captured the beauty of this wonderful country.

Us Being Kiwi Birds (Too bad we've never seen a kiwi bird except for on the signs!)

Bungie Jumping at the Nevis in Queenstown: the 2nd tallest jump in the world at 440 feet (134 meters)!! That was 8.4 seconds of freefall before the first bounce! I finally got over my biggest fear!

Taking in some fresh air at my favorite spot, Opito Bay. We watched dolphins play near the shore and walked along this beautiful beach. So scerene!

Another one of my favorites was a few hours climb we did on Mt. Cook.

ENJOY!!

So I took a few hours this evening and uploaded some of my pictures from Australia. I'm getting too far behind, and really need to get you updated on some things. Unfortunately, the uploading of just these photos took me all of 3 hours! So, no details as of now, but figured that a picture says a hundred words and I just don't have time to catch you up on everything!

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ENJOY!!

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I wanted to talk more about my many wonderful adventures to Fiji as I have spent more time having fun and less time updating everyone on my trip. Of course, isn't that what I'm suppose to do? If I wrote pages and pages of stories of my trip, I would miss out on so many fun things!

Anyway, We spent a total of 6 days in Fiji and it wasn't even close to being enough time. We went to two places our whole entire time, and LOVED it and heard that we were in some of the ugliest places of Fiji. I can only imagine how much more beautiful other places would have been.

Staying at hostels we quickly realized that you make a lot of friends with people who are doing exactly what you're doing -- backpacking the area. This is an awesome way to get good connections on things to do, places to go, and have great people to hang out with. We also quickly made friends with the hostel manager who had a bit of a crush on me (maybe a bit more than a crush as he wanted to spend a ridiculous amount of money paying for plane tickets, cruises, food, and accomidations for me--when I declined he even offered to pay for Bree and Courtney to come with! hahaha, talk about Fijian Friendliness!)

Sunday morning at 8:30am Courtney and I were having a bite to eat in our breakfast nook and trying to decide what we wanted to do over the next 5 days. We decided that going on a trip to one of the nearby islands would be the best way to see more things as we here the islands were beautiful! We found one leaving in 2 hours for a 4 day, 3 night trip to the island they call "Robinson Crusoe." We quickly grabbed Bree, packed all of our bags, checked out of our room and purchased tickets to the nearby island. We were excited about the trip and couldn't wait to arrive at the island and truly enjoy paradise.

We were picked up by a rickity old van with a driver that passed two cars at a time on a double lined highway while going 40 km over the speed limit. Oh, and seatbelts are not standard in Fiji so our lives were in the hands of some crazy guy trying to quickly get us to our Cruiser Ship to take us to our Paradise Island.

No worries! After stopping for some groceries with our van driver we arrived safely at our destination, and the crew of people that we were expecting to be waiting for us at the dock consisted of an old man with practically no teeth. We didn't have to wait too long before being greated by a huge Fijian man in the smallest motorized boat who soon arrived in the muddy river to take us to our new home on the Robinson Crusoe island. We had to hurry though because it looked as though it might rain on us.

Yeah, we thought, "So much for our idea of paradise. . . . "

Hey Friends,

It's me in Auzzie Country. It's 3:30 in the morning and I have to get up and leave in 2 1/2 hours so I'm making this one brief. Sorry about the very few details. I figured pictures speak more than words though and I wanted to get some pictures uploaded for you to view. Visit my MySpace site at the following link to view my Fiji Pictures:

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Under the picture of me you will see a small word in a seagreen-blue color that says "Pics." If you click that, if you are a member of 'Myspace' you can view my pictures (Sometimes people join just for that reason). If you're not a member of 'Myspace' you can either join, or you can watch my slideshow of my pictures. Unfortunately, I have lots of other pictures on the slideshow that come before the Fiji ones. Sorry, I couldn't quickly figure out how to move them to the front of the line.

Anyway, that's all I have for now. In a few hours, I'll be driving a car on the wrong side of the street in the passanger seat!!! AUGH!! I'm a bit scared. Pray for me please!

Brooke

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