The CARS kid

Did you know that I absolutely love anything to do with CARS? Well, yeah, I like all cars, but I really love the Disney CARS movie. I watch it ALOT, and I have it almost memorized! I have so many CARS cars (see picture below) that I can act out every scene perfectly. Our CARS movie can only be played in Australia on the DVD player so we're definitely going to have to get one for America! Mom even downloaded the CARS movie to her iPod . . . for "desperate times" she said.


Here I am sportin' the CARS slippers that Aunt Kara and Uncle Carl got me.


Here are the CARS boys. Yes, even Kaden loves to get his hands (and mouth) on my CARS whenever he can!

Evan . . . The Travelin' Man

We just went on a really looong holiday and rode in the car for a really looong time to get to our destinations. Mom and dad said I did pretty good considering all of the driving we had to do . . . I guess I'm growing up - at least that is what they have been telling me.

First of all we flew to Melbourne. Dad had to teach training for work for a couple days so mom, Kaden, and I hit the big city on our own and our first stop was the Melbourne Aquarium. I had alot of fun here. I've been to the aquarium at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha and at Underwater World at the Sunshine Coast but this one topped the cake! There was a tunnel for us to walk through and it ended in this big room that was shaped like a bubble with fish and sharks and turtles and sting rays swimming all around us! We even got to watch the divers swim in the bubble tank to hand feed the fish. It was pretty cool!

After dad was done with his training we hopped in the car and drove to Phillip Island, south of Melbourne, to watch the Penguin Parade. Mom and dad had to buy me a winter coat - that I hated wearing - because it was alot colder on Phillip Island than anything we had ever experienced in Australia! Seeing the penguins was also pretty neat.

We saw alot of the ocean on the rest of our trip while driving, driving, driving. We made stops along the way as we traveled through the Otway National Park and along The Great Ocean Road. We visited a sub-temperate rainforest, the Cape Otway Lighthouse, and the 12 Apostles . . . all things that mom and dad say I will appreciate one day.

By the end of our two weeks of flying and driving all over Australia I told everyone that I was "tired of traveling" and wanted to go home and play with my cars. Mom, Kaden, and I flew home from Adelaide while dad went to Sydney to finish some work. Boy was I happy to get home and get back to normal!