Hi everyone, this is my email number 1 from Australia!

I arrived in Sydney Thursday night after just about the longest 24 hours
of my life! I only managed to sleep for about 1 1/2 hours of the 21 hour
journey and its taken up until today to almost recover from the jet lag.

Emmas been the worst - she wouldn't get out of bed all of Friday! We've
been staying with some family friends called John and Janne who have
been really kind to us.

The weather has been nice and sunny but a bit windy. Emma and I went on
a bus tour round Sydney yesterday afternoon and were nearly blown off
the top of the bus. It was so funny. We're flying to Cairns tomorrow
morning which I'm really excited about. I'm quite nervous about the big
bugs we're going to see up there though. Thankfully (touch wood) we
haven't seen any spiders yet, although we did see a big cockroach
outside last night which was disgusting. Also there are crocodiles in
Cairns so I hope I don't see any of them either!

We went to Bondi today to the market which was really nice and I bought
a couple of dresses. We saw the beach which was very busy with people
sunbathing and swimming in the sea. I haven't had a chance to go in the
sea yet and won't for a while as we won't be able to swim in the sea
near Cairns unless we want to be stung to death by poisonous jellyfish
or eaten by crocodiles and sharks. I don't know how anyone survives
here! We're hopefully going to go and visit the rainforst which is a bit
further north of Cairns, which is supposed to be really amazing. Then
we'll be going scuba diving on the reefs which I'm so looking forward
to.

I hope you're all well. I'll definitely email soon to let you know how
I'm getting on. Take care, Charlotte x

P.S. This is my Australian mobile number: +61 413 710 213.