The Rimmer Family on Tour » Louisa

Sunbathing, shopping and lots of steak!!!!

Louisa — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:52:36 +0000

Rio can be so many places all moulded into one. Hong Kong, Brisbane, Dunedin and yet when you look at the beaches you feel like you are on one of those far off islands in the middle of the ocean where it is always sweltering hot!!! Due to the fact that we have friends living in Rio we went to there house for lunch. Cesar, (the man of the house) who is an extremely good cook, made us a typical brazillian meal of rice, salad, steak and chips. It can get up to 23 degrees but it is not very hot. I hope that all is well at home. louisa

Geothermal Jokes

Louisa — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 06:51:59 +0000

Why did the geyser feel good about himself?
Because he was full of sulphur steam!

Why did the bubbling mud get a girlfriend quickly?
Because he was sooooo hot!

Hope you like them

Skiing on the Mountainside.

Louisa — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:25:34 +0000

Two days ago we went cross country skiing and had a go at going down, up and flat with skis. First of all we had a lesson so we could learn exactly how to cope and use the sticks and other equipment. First of all we tried going flat (which lead to falling over ALOT!) Next we tried a slope which was defnately the hardest bit. After our full length lesson we were aloud to go freestyle. Next we tried out the Mary’s Trail for Begginners. It involved some hard work and a pit stop for a picnic in the snow. I was eager to carry on unlike Anna so i repeated the trail with dad, while Anna and Mum made a snow man!!! Just a quick note: Following on from Dad’s Post below or on the homepage, another way to keep children happy whilst travelling around the world is to give them an ice-cream every day!!!!

Dazzling Daintree!

Louisa — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:05:25 +0000

I have just come back from the daintree rainforest in Australia where i have been having a fab time. We only just managed to squeeze in snorkling before the trip home. I can now say i have been to the GREAT BARRIER REEF. I actually saw some fish!!! It was really wavey and hard to swim in. I saw a spotty fish AND a group swimming together. Also yesterday i went to the daintree river and had a crocodile cruise. We saw three!!!! One crocodile was 5 METRES long and it’s tail was a foot wide. Then we also saw a HUGE fat female who the guide said had just caught herself a juicy, yummy wallaby for breakfast. Hope all is well back home!!!

Koala Kingdom

Louisa — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:01:39 +0000

As a brilliant day trip we took a drive to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary to find some creatures. As well as koalas we saw kangaroos, tasmanian devils, fresh-water crocodiles, snakes, lizards, dingoes, platypuses, wombats, emus, parrots and lots and lots of birds. Events seemed to follow on from the next there were so many. I particuarly enjoyed the rainbow lorikeets being fed. I was also rather amused with the Birds of Prey show and sheep shearing.We were just sitting down to eat our lunch when a goat jumped upon the table!!! It was sooooooooooo fun. We got to feed the kangaroos AND stroke a snake. COOL!!!!

Streets Beach

Louisa — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:33:07 +0000

In Brisbane there is a really cool streets beach. It is a fake beach and everybody can come to it even though it is in the middle of the city! I do not think there is anywhere like it. Next to the beach there are sprinklers which get you AWFULLY wet. When we were drying off we noticed a group of people taking photo shoots and lifeguards asked to help who were being humiliated. It is really relaxing and is a perfect place just to chill!!!!

Straddie Sightings

Louisa — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:20:18 +0000

Having been in Brisbane 5 days we thought we should take a side trip and try out somewhere else. Stradbroke island, being a relaxing location for a holiday was our choice. For a beach lover (like myself!) Straddie is a perfect area just to chill in paradise! On our first few hours on the island we attempted a long walk to the point were you can spot humpback whales. Though exhausted we managed it to the aparent town (around four shops.) where we picked up a maginum. YUM! On the walk back we saw a phenomenal sunset which included orange sky, scarlet clouds and amazingly beautiful silhoettes of plants and bats stretching out over the bay. The next day (though rainy!) was the day we decided to go to the point and at least TRY to spot some whales, dolphins, turtles and loads more marine wildlife. The biggest of a whale seen was one breaching (jumping) in the distance. Unfortunately, being taken with some dolphins in a group below i missed this one off chance. BOOOO! We mainly saw blows, backs and fins as notice of the whales themselves. On our leaving date we checked out of our youth hostel, left our bags in their hopefully capable hands and made our way down to the point to see some more. This is when we got a very close up whale’s fin. It was interesting to see people doing a survey about humpbacks (a species of whale) and had seen a whopping 872 humpbacks since the 1st of June!!!! Pretty good I’d say. It was an unforgetable experience and i hope Straddie is on our list of into-the-future smallish holidays!!!!:-)

Zoom, zoom, zoom!

Louisa — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:31:00 +0000

On Thursday we came to hiroshima by Shinkansen. From the inside you do not really feel like you are going that fast. You only feel sick when you look through the window or from the outside of the train. The landscape zooms by and i thought it would be a shame if nobody could see just how it felt to travel at 280 kilometres. This is gonna show you!

Louisa on the Shinkansen from Chris Rimmer on Vimeo.

Come on you Carps!

Louisa — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:08:10 +0000

Tomorrow is our last day in japan. I am looking forward to a baseball match we are going to see. It is the Tokyo Yakult Swallows vs the Hiroshima Toyo Carp. Carp play in red and swallows play in blue. I can not wait for the match. There are plenty of shops to buy gear to go to the match in. They seem to support there team alot. Today we went to the Atomic bomb dome and learned alot about the history of Hiroshima. It must have been terrible. One girl who did not get killed in the bombing and beleived that if she made a thousand oragarmi cranes she would live. Unfortunatley, she did not live to make that many but she made a fair amount. In her coffin were all of the cranes she had made. i also found out that the atomic bomb’s centre was around 1000000 degrees! That must have been painful!

Don’t eat it all in one go.

Louisa — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:03:00 +0000

Gobbling sushi outside a temple is not a thing you do every day but we did it. From a Japanese shop we got big rice sushis prawns, eels and noodles. Shovelling our food down like beasts, we watched the visitors filing into the phenomenal temple. Being so interested in this complicated language I didn’t hear dad say
“Don’t put it all in at once!” but it was too late. Being to plump to put my mouth round, the sushi was half in and half out. With Anna and dad bursting with laughter and mum constantly panicing I couldn’t help giggling. Suddenly, I realised the rice was squeezing through my lips, causing me to laugh even harder. I had sort of made a sushi sausage! To be honest to me it seems like I was the centre of attention. EMBARRASSING!