G’day mates!  It’s me Nickels reporting from down under on the barbie!  We did some trabel juice and we really went far around the world to pick up our bizness licenses from our friend Wolberine who is in Heaben now wiff Chip, but they came down to join us on our adbenture.  Mom is always talking about the quoakas, and how much she wants to go to Rottnest Island and talk selfies wiff them, so I went there.  I searched all ober and saw lots ob them, but ebery time I went up to one wiff a leaf and asked to take a picture wiff me, they just took the leaf and hopped away, but it was really fun to see them and I’ll keep trying.  Bert went birb-watching and saw all different kinds of birdos, he hunkered down at the birb watching hut at Birba Lake.  He said habbing snacks and birb watching was really fun and relaxing.  Beez went on a round about and looked for some roos, he said they were a bit intimitating, but after they talked for a few minutes, they took him on a ride in their pouch and he said it was so much fun!  I wish I could hab done that too.  So many fun fings to do here in Australia, but mom said we hab to be home soon, I still hab medicines to take.  Beez habs advised me on how to aboid it, you just hab to turtle turtle and  CHA, CHA, CHA!! – more about that later.  I’m doing one more try for a quoka selfie.   Ok, see you!

Fank you Marie and Wolberine!!

Today we got back to trabeling, and it’s winter so we finally got to go to Minnesota!  We waited until winter because Minnesota is at it’s most Minnesota-iest then.  It’s me Nickels talking, and I went to Woullets Bakery to get mom her faborite cake in the whole wide world, it’s a Hot Fudge Whipped Cream Cake and she said it’s sooo good so I hope she will share wiff us. She has been taking care ob me, so I want to her somefing specshul, and they won’t ship the cake, so we had to come and get one for her.  She is pretty good about that.  Beez and Bert went to see the ice sculptures outside the Landmark Center.  It’s so beautiful!

Chips name was on the bizness license too, I know he is sad he couldn’t be here on earff wiff us.  I can’t explain it, but I really felt like he was here wiff us.

Fank you Shannon Belille! Want to join us for dinner at Murrays?  We will be there at 7:30 for the Silver Butter Knife Steak that habs been there since 1946.  I hope they hab a fresh one.

You know what to do.  Dis is not a drill.  Find your sock if you’ve got one, and just fake it till it’s ober.  Good luck eberyone!