Australia, South Pacific, New Zealand

Stacey and I arrived in Sydney, Australia December 31st, 2011, (New Year's Eve).  We spent New Year's Eve evening on a Tall Ship in Sydney Harbour leading the Parade of Lights for the Fireworks show and what a Show it was, absolutely a great experience...

We stayed with friends in Glebe, (a suburb of Sydney), until the 4th of January 2012 and then we boarded the ms Volendam Cruise Ship of Holland and headed toward FiJi and the South Pacific Islands.  We were at sea for two days and two nights and then the next morning we had arrived at our first destination.  We were not able to dock the ship in this particular harbour so we had to use Tender Boats to go ashore. Most of the stops in the South Pacific were tendered but we did actually dock at a couple of ports...  It was extremely Hot and humid during all of the 13 days of the South Pacific Islands cruise. 

While we were on-board the cruise ship we were enrolled in two ship seminars, the first one with Dr. Wayne Dyer which was the main reason that we signed up for the cruise and the second one was with HayHouse which dealt with writing and publishing books...  Wayne's seminar was entitled "Learning to Manifest" and the HayHouse seminar was entitled "Movers and Shakers"...  I only went to the first Movers and Shakers seminar but attended all of Wayne Dyer's Seminar...  Stacey went to all of both...  Wayne and one of his Daughters stayed in a Stateroom just a few doors down from ours and we shared access to what they called the Neptune Lounge...  I learned a great deal from and about Dr. Dyer during this cruise... 

While on the first cruise we met several very nice friends...  10 from Australia and 2 from Canada...  We stayed with one of them, "Nano", after we completed our second cruise.  After we returned to Sydney from our South Pacific Islands cruise we decided to stay on the Ship for a second cruise which was for 14 days to New Zealand. It was a much different cruise.  We didn't meet any special friends like on the first cruise, we didn't have any seminars to attend and we booked excursions through the ship for every port that we stopped in.  On the way back from New Zealand the seas were extremely rough for the two day journey back to Sydney.  I was sick most of the time and for a couple of Days after the cruise had ended.

When we returned to Sydney the second time I was ready to go home.  We were scheduled for two more weeks in Australia before returning home but I just couldn't take it any more...  We were able to change our plane tickets to leave four days later on Sunday and Stacey reluctantly agreed.  We had planned to spend those days seeing the zoo and aquarium and opera house, etc. in Sydney but it rained the entire time until the day before we left so we basically just spent hours and hours talking to Nano about many spiritual thoughts.

After returning to the Ranch we spent Valentine's at the Shore Lodge in McCall and had a very nice romantic time at the Lake.  Stacey had a nice massage and facial at the spa and I enjoyed just relaxing, (on land), and we had a very nice romantic dinner that evening...

We are back at the Ranch now and I hope to stay here for quite awhile before going anywhere else...

I Love our life at Lake Creek - we received the new "I Am" - Wishes Fulfilled Meditation CD from Wayne Dyer...  He shared a sample of the meditation with us while we were on the Cruise and we instantly fell in Love with it...  I have been meditation since the 80s when I learned about deep mediation via bio-feedback relaxation techniques and self-hypnosis, etc. and I have also worked with Bill Harris at Centerpointe using their very powerful meditation techniques however this CD takes you to an incredible level of meditation almost immediately, very powerful and effective...

So that's it for now...  Hope all is well with anyone that is reading this...
Peace...  De  (Feb. 16th, 2012)