Sun-shine Aquatics: Day 3 of training and the vegemite experience

The only thing I like about getting up early is that it is so quiet everywhere... another morning of 4 am wake-up and a long drive to the pool for practice. The kids had a good gym session with some weights targeting leg strength and abs for core work. Swimming part was a distance set of 6 x 400 (Zack and Albert did 4 BR + 2 FR; Kenji, Jarrell and Michaela did 2 BK, 2 IM, and 2 FR/Fly) and the total was only 4,100 meters. This afternoon will be a hard short-rest set, and I hope the kids are not too sore from the gym session.

After the morning practice, we took a drive to the Glass House Mountains. The kids really liked the Aussie candies and the popular Burger Ring (a type of chip-alike snack tastes like burger). Then one of the boys farted (either Zack, Kenji or Albert from the back row) and it was really BAD! I guess they had too much fun with the snacks. On the way to the GHM lookout point, we drove pass the Australia Zoo (where we will visit on this Sunday) and spotted a baby Kangaroo at roadside. The Mountain range is very pretty and by reading the intro, it apparently is very spiritual to Australia's aboriginal people. The reason why it was called "Glass House Mountains" was that Lieutenant James Cook thought the peaks resembled the glass furnace in his hometown. Surely it was beautiful. Then we had some tasty breakfast at a little family-owned cafe across from a beach (didn't see the name of the beach though). The boys checked out the waves a bit and decided not to get in today because the water is too cold due to the cold weather started last night. Came back to Chris' house and fed the kids with chicken sandwiches, then they went for the video games and the FB. Oh well, the only things they need for life...

As of now, everyone has tried vegemite. Michaela decided early on that she doesn't like it at all; Kenji said it was not bad but was not good either; Albert couldn't finish so he had to give it to the dog; Zack took few bites but had to spit everything out into the toilet because he couldn't handle the taste; and Jarrell definitely doesn't want to have it ever agin. Hahaha... mission accomplished and one thing off from their to-do list.

A little break for all of us now and will return to the pool in about 45 mins. Aussie lesson of the day... Tick means "to check"; Bugger means "guy" and the most common expression is "oh, the poor bugger" when something bad happens to a person. Ok, time to have a little rest for me before heading back to the pool, so I will send another one later tonight. We are having fun and I will make sure the kids dress themselves warm (even though most of them don't like to listen to me about dressing warm). ^0^