Hi Everyone,

Hope January isn't too miserable and everyone is ok!?!?!

So the weather has improved dramatically and its now constantly around the 40+ mark.... far too hot for me, really struggling in it.. moan that its too cold, moan that its too hot, the poor weather can't win!!!!

We have been busy over the last week, Friday we went to a Brazilian Jazz festival, was brilliant. Me, Louisa, Fiona and Aveen went and took a picnic down with us, the music was nice and mellow and we had a good laugh... as the festival got going in the evening the drums came out and everyone was up dancing.... there was even the conga going around the park at one point!! On our way home, there was a man playing a flute and he played us a song.. it was 'sexy back' by JT... he was soo good at it, we was very impressed he could play such a tune with a flute!

On Wednesday we went to the Sydney Art Gallery, spent the evening looking around. We got to see all types of art, classical, modern, aboriginal.

Saturday, I was left on my own as no one wanted to come with me to see the Aborginal Show, but it was amazing.. Got to learn about their culture and their language. Even got to learn how to play the didjeridoo. (still rubbish at it though).

Today (sunday) we went to Taronga Zoo.. It was brilliant apart from it being far to hot to be walking around. I even was brave and got on a cable car over the zoo, got to see some pretty cool sights of Sydney. I loved the zoo though, got to see Koalas, crocodiles, turtles, little penguins - i wanted to steal one and take it home with me, they are sooo cute! Also giraffes, zebras, monkeys, meercats, wanted to steal one of those aswell.. ha ha!! Got to see huntsman spiders, one of the most poisonous in australia...luckily they were nicely locked up!! There were tigers and as we got there it was like they decided to put on a show for us as they started to have a play fight. Oh i almost forgot, there was some parrots and when you walked over to them, they would say 'hello' to you, it was so funny cause it was in a weird ozzie accent aswell.

Ok probably bored you enough already, speak to you all soon,

Rach xxxx