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My cousin, Xiao Lan came over to Australia for 3 weeks and had just left. I hadn't seen here in probably 8 years and was looking forward to getting to know her better. We had a blast! Before I turn this post into an ode to her awesomeness, let me just succinctly say that we had lots of fun! I wished I could take time off so we could go to the outbacks and have some real adventures, or even explored more wilderness, but time was just not permitting- with a PhD and all..

Xiao Lan also has a blog, with some great pictures of her travel here:

*Did the South Australia (Adelaide) for the first time. Caught up with Ju Ann and her new hubby, Roshan and had a blast monkeying around! Will post picture from that soon.

*Did the Great Ocean Road, with the lab peeps, which was cool too.

*Introduced her to all my friends, and she got along famously with everyone!

Now that she's left, it's back to the daily grind...

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