ok guys GREAT news, my flight to melbourne to escape the rain was supposed to leave at 12.15, now not leaving till 8.40, OH MY GOD where are char and laura when i need them??! anyway i'll try and be cheery as i catch you up with our sydney antics.

So we arrived in sydney, hopped on the shuttle and got taken to base where we had been upgraded to a four bed dorm which was nice! That day we basically strolled around sydney for a bit, got some food, went on internet and met up with staurt (stooey looey) who we met in nz and who is now living and working here. After a grand tour of staurts abode we headed to chill at the cinema, we saw because i said so and oh that was a mistake, i swear we cannot get a break on the film front.

The next day we started being tourists, we headed off to darling harbour which was really nice, we went to the aquarium (dont know how to spell that!) and saw all sorts of weird and wonderful fish! we went for a stroll through the chinese gardens and feeling thoroughly tranquil we headed off in search of foooooood, after stopping at EVERY restaurant around the harbour (no joke) we found the blackbird which suited all our tastes so we settled in for some grub. 2 bottles of wine and a couple of cocktails later and we were bounding back to our hostel (we managed to spend the WHOLE day at the harbour!), but not before stopping off for some free champers at the hostel bar! we then ended up in the kitchen, spilling cereal and then in the disabled showers sprying each other..... i dunno.

The following day was a day of pampering, feeling thoroughly grossed out at... oursleves, we went to a salon for a hair cut! happy with the cuts (but not with the staff- bloody 40 mins with gloss treatment on and another 20 waiting for someone to start the cut!). I went shopping, the girls ran some errands and then we headed off to stuarts for a bbq, really funny night with a tiny dog that was rather, um, fond of his teddy bear and stuarts landlord who got really drunk and had the stupidest laugh ever! But it was an early(ish) night as the next day we were off to manly beach!

We met stuart and emma and headed off to circular quay, the walk that should have taken 20 mins took 40 as i had to keep stopping to throw up! (the beginnings of my disease!). But we made it onto the ferry and i managed no more sick! got some good views of the harbour bridge and the opera house. When we got to manly we were picked up by ryan (another scottish guy we met in nz who was working at a hostel), we settled in at the hostel, grabbed some grub and headed off to palm beach (half an hour drive) and, prepare yourselves, its where home and away is filmed OMG!! unfortunatley no sign of kim anywhere (you watchers know who!), but me and emma (stuarts cousin) were snapping away none the less. char stuart and ryan braved the waters, char getting knocked over the poor sod (new hair RUINED). On the way back we picked up some supplies and headed back to the hostel to get ready, drink and iron shirts with hair straighteners- its amazing what you learn travelling. before heading out to the wharf for drinks and pizza with tommy (not his real name, and ANOTHER scot) and owen (irish), friends of ryans. After we got our grub on we moved to another bar, but being a sat nite every where was packed so when i heard kylie blaring from a bar i dragged every1 in and it was baaaaaaaad, some of us embraced it and had a boogie, laura (haha) managed to get chucked out for having a drink on the dancefloor!! ryan was wetting himself about that one. After this we thought it best to head straight to the club where we danced the night away. When we left we wandered back "the scenic way" and ended up at the hostel (eventually) where for some reason we decided to try and stay up longer, this resulted in ryan falling asleep sitting up and me hiding under a duvet for a kip!

The next morn we emerged bleary eyed, but still giggling to find ryan stressing out coz the till wouldnt balance! we left him to it and headed to the beach where stuart tried (and failed) to surf. Im gonna leave it there guys, stress is gettin too much! i need some comfort food. but there will be more to come!! x