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Hi Julie & Kristi,
I'm so proud of the both of you. I'm so woosy I'm winging about the cold water at the mission tomorrow!!! Your both doing fabulously. Have a good drink at the end and WOOP it up girls!!! (Can't wait to hear all your tales)Lot's of Love
Jo:)Heyyyy to mum and julie!
We are all missing you loads!
I am fine and so are the kids SO DONT WORRY BE HAPPY !!
Nanna says she is glad your hanging in there and will see you soon.We all love you and hopefully you will learn from this experience and know that life is too short to make us do the dishes!
Love you both very much
claire and the gang!xx
Oops, sorry I forgot to mention that your Mum said Julie is doing ok, its only her! Yes, she sounds like she will have heaps to tell you all along with Julie when they return to Australia.
hi kristi and julie…how are you …not to long to go now i have been thinking of you all the way…i hope there is not to many blissters.kristi kids and t\\winston and cloe are all doing well… hang in there .. you go girls love mum and jude xxxx
hi kristi and julie..well its all over how proud do you feel ….i hope you now how proud i am of you girls …so we will see you soon i cant wait to hear all the news …love mum and judexxxx
hi kristi and julie..well its all over how proud do you feel ….i hope you now how proud i am of you girls …so we will see you soon i
cant wait to hear all the news …love mum and judexxxxkids are looking forward to seeing you …kristi i kept your dad posted …love you mum..Trekkers are now back here in Port Moresby having arrived around 11:30am this morning. Two are staying at the Holiday Inn and the remainder at the Gateway Hotel.
After meeting up with them this morning whilst tired, looking like they needed a nice hot shower and shave, they all appeared ok except for a few blisters here and there.
All of them were very supportive of our KTL boys – no doubt I will hear more later this afternoon when I meet with them again at the Gateway Hotel.
As I type this at 3:00pm they have been picked up and heading for the Bomana War Cemetery in our truck commonly referred to as KTL 2 as they missed going there due to their early start on the commencement of their trek and the cemetery being closed.
Update 14th July: We met up with trekkers last night poolside at the Gateway Hotel and once again it was just great hearing all about their trek and experiences.
To each and everyone of them, a big THANK YOU from all of us here at Kokoda Trekking for choosing to trek with us and even though some did it really tough, they looked so proud of themselves last night having completed what they started out to do.
The men in the group had such admiration for the three women who held it together to finish in Kokoda along with our KTL boys who thoroughly enjoyed their trek.
I was telling them last night that Andrew their guide called me by sat phone and said he would have to speak in Pidgin English so the trekkers would not understand but that he had a big 'heavy'. When I asked what the problem was, he replied that his trekkers were playing jokes along the way and when they started out they said whoever had two pegs at the end had to shout two cartons of beer.
He informed me he ended up with the pegs and what could he do? I said they must be joking and he replied, no they are SERIOUS!
To solve his problem as Fiona did not complete the trek he still had her overnight money plus some left over money from his village money so I gave him permission to purchase two cartons of beer.
Trekkers were laughing last night as I told them about Andrew's BIG PROBLEM!!!
They then gave me their side of the story about how Andrew ended up with the two pegs….haha
Wait till your loved ones arrive back home, you will no doubt hear about KOKODA for a long time to come and what it meant to them.
Trek 423 – thanks again for choosing to walk with us.
Photographs:
Pic 1: Inside the Kokoda War Museum
Pic 2: Group Photograph up against the carved wooden signposts Kokoda Trekking put in Kokoda last year.
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DSC02997__Small_.JPGSome trek photographs for you to view that were copied to my computer last night at the Gateway Hotel:
the finish line – destination KOKODA – guard of honour – KTL boys – Andrew Yauga their guide is on the left in this photograph:
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Pic 1: Relaxing in the hammocks at our camp in Kokoda
Pic 2: I made it! – taken at our camp in Kokoda
Pic 3: oh, good some mattresses!
Pic 4: Kitchen area
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Sitting around enjoying their last night with our KTL boys who can be seen in the background playing their uke'ule's and entertaining trekkers
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Pic 1: Fiona and our porter Jessie
Pic 2: Don't you just LOVE the head torches?
Pic 3: One of two brothers on this trek with our KTL porter
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DSC03067__Small_.JPGAll good things must come to an end – Kokoda airport Sunday 13th July, 2008:
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are you there yet??? 
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