This past weekend was homestay weekend.  Different local families adopted small groups of students for the weekend.  Lilly and I went to stay with John and Pauline, an older couple who live outside of Malanda.  Pauline made amazing food for us.  Saturday we went out to Etty Bay, about an hours drive.  It was a wonderful day, warm and relaxing.  Right before we got ready to leave a Cassowary and juvenile walked onto the beach right in front of us.  It was so cool!.  They are pretty rare so it was really exciting to see one.  And then, when we were driving out from the beach there was another adult crossing the road, we stopped the car directly in front of it.  Sunday we took a driving trip around the Tablelands area.  We saw several of the small towns in the area; Malanda, Ravenshoe (pronounced Ravens -hoe not Raven - shoe).  Before we had to be dropped off in Yungaburra to go back to the center our homestay parents took us to Gallo Dairy, where we saw a rotary milking barn and got some really good chocolate.  All in all it was a wonderful weekend.