November 5th….America Votes while I submerse myself deep in rural Australia….

First thought upon waking up today: “TV, TV, TV, TV….gotta watch the elections!” Nope. Not a chance. We woke up and I tried calling every single person whose number I knew in America, but no one answered. I FINALLY talked to my mom about an hour later and she barely had any news, so we went to the beach to watch a pelican feeding. It was pretty funny to see such large birds interact with humans.

Since we didn’t want to go the pub at 9 in the morning (it was the only place in town with a public TV), we got on the road to see if we couldn’t make it to the next destination before the decision was made. We are only traveling this way once, so of course we had some stops to make along the way.

Through the procrastination and since the new destination, Monkey Mia, was so far away, we missed every bit of it. I caught about the last 2 minutes of Obama’s acceptance speech on a very static-filled radio station just as we were pulling into town. I lost all cell phone reception and radio for over 4 hours. Not the best of my days, I must say….

We got to Shark Bay though, and by far this is the best place we’ve been. It’s heaven, really. The water is aquamarine just like the crayon! There are dolphins all over the place and whales and sharks and turtles and manatees (which they call dugongs…HA!). We drove through some cool towns and made it to Monkey Mia where the dolphins come to shore and play with the humans every morning. Should be a good morning tomorrow!

We spent the afternoon relaxing and exploring the resort, had some dinner and watched the sunset on the beach. We watched the dolphins playing just out from where we were sitting and there must’ve been 20 of them. I swear I cannot explain how cool this place is. I guess I will have to put up a bunch of pictures….are you guys even looking at them? Does anyone even read this?!?!?!

Going to bed now….tomorrow will be good.

Oh, and Obama wins! Way to go America!!!! I believe today was the biggest day of my life. I am anxious to see what the next 4 years bring!!!! I am pretty impressed with both speeches made…at least the last 2 minutes of Obama’s and all of McCain’s. And Indiana?!?!?! WOAH! Ok, this isn’t a political platform….good night.