We love cookies.

We officially did it -- survived our first week of night shifts and all of our patients ended up okay!! Haha. Only one more week of nights, then we're back to our normal schedule. It took a few days to get used to the 7pm-7am shift, and it's going to take awhile to get off that, so please excuse us if we're wacky and scrambled-egg brained. Marko's been working quite a bit too, especially lately since one of his coworkers was fired and another one quit. I think they need a new retention plan. Oops, I should keep my thoughts to myself for fear of the pinky ring-ed. (Yea, you know what I'm talking about...)

In celebration of getting through the first week of night shifts we ate a lot of food (which isn't abnormal I guess) and visited the Melbourne Aquarium. We were laughing because the majority of our exploring since we've been here has been to see the animals - 2 zoos and 1 aquarium! I think we're pretty educated on Australia's wildlife so far, Im not gonna lie. But the aquarium was amazing! Penguins, long neck baby turtles, lotsa fish and BIG GIGANTIC-NORMOUS sting rays!! Omg, seriously, these things were legit. Just take a look at the pictures! Dude, they were huuuuge. There were also big wonderful sharks, which we hope to see for ourselves in the wild while we're here. Well, not really.

crazy marko

the mother of all sting rays

dun dun, dun dun, dun dun (i know that's what you're all thinking, don't lie...)

ahhh!! it's so super humungo!!

Additionally, in lieu of Marko's upcoming big 3-0 year o' birth, we purchased tickets to Bali!! Or as the birthday boy likes to say it, "Ba-leeeee" (kinda like Wall-e, the amazing Disney creation according to Marko and I, not so much X, but I digress). Yup, we're going for about 5 days. That lucky duck!! He spent his 29th in Greece and now this. What's next, 31st in an ice cave in Antarctica with the penguins singing and dancing happy birthday?? The possibilities are endless. Anywho, we're all looking forward to ringing in Marko's birthday with sun, massages, good food and good company :) Can't wait!!

over here for

this one's bday