So i'm not very good at this keeping my blog upto date thing - but i keep getting nagged so will try remember what the hell i've been upto!!

I ended up staying in Newcastle for a couple nights in the YHA there - really nice clean place, was styled like an english country mansion, with chandelliers and big leather sofas in the "ball room" aka the common room. Just spent the days chilling out at Nobbys Beach and had a game of drunken bingo on the hostels entertainment night thing.

- free food and drink, you can't complain!!

I went back to Manly for Terri's birthday on the wednesday and missed the place insanely!!! Booked into a place called the Wharf Backpackers but ended up spending every day and night in Boadriders aka my home away from home!!

Then went upto Collaroy on the Saturday. It's a really nice place - so chilled out with a nice beach and just couple food places, but not sure what i was expecting from the hostel seen as the guys back home who stayed there made it out to be amazing!! But wasn't really the place for me!

Ended up sharing a room with 2 girls who were really cool, but by this point i'd nearly completly lost my voice and had that 'the morning after the night before' voice going on 24/7. Our other room mate was this really wierd guy!! He was like 60 from Switzerland and had some sort of illness (which none of us girls dared asked what!!) but he slept all day and night and had blood pressure monitors and everything! I stayed there one night and then disspearred back to Manly for a couple nights again! But when i got back the girls were leaving for back home - this now being a couple days away from Christmas, i decided to spend one night in Collaroy again and then spend xmas at my hometown!

Xmas eve was amazing!! The whole of boardriders headed over to Shelly Beach for a BBQ with plently of drinks flowing! Think it really hit me then that i was sitting on a beach in gorgeous weather on christmas eve instead of going to a local pub in the freezing cold! - couldn't have asked for anything better!!

- the night got pretty random from there! One of the guys, Barry, somehow met this millionaire who's the founder of some australian backpacker companies a few weeks before and invited him to bring a few people over to his yacht for a little private party!! ... So anyway because us English girls are just possibly the best things to ever hit these Canadian guys lives, we of corse got asked to come!

This boat was gorgeous!!!! It was posh packing to the max!! Cause the guy had a few drinks and just wanted to chill, the boat was just anchored down near the harbour, and we just spent the night chilled out drinking and having a laugh and getting back massages of our newly appointed cabbana boy, DW! - the best part though must have been the getting back to shore at the end!! We all had to climb into this rubber dingy boat which was driven by a very very drunk Barry!! Not only did he manage to stall the thing about 50 times, then falling over in the water about 6 times, but his trip back for the 2nd round of people, he had to row himself, since the wire had come out of the motor and none of us had a clue where it went. - it was the worst rowing i've seen in my life, and god knows where he was actaully rowing to, because at one stage he'd gone past the boat and was heading for sea!!!

Christmas day wasn't the best for me, i got really homesick because i'd broken my mobile the night before so couldn't ring home to say Merry Christmas to anyone. So i had payed $60 to go Bondi and was too grinchy to go - but although down on cash, i heard the place was a complete dive and it wasn't actaully on the beach but in a hall :S

I managed to perk myself up at night though, and just got completly smashed with the Manly lot with our usual games of quaters.

Still meaning to be in Collaroy - i just headed back there for my last night and met a couple guys from Gillingham in my room, so my quiet night in turned to be sitting playing drinking games with them and a couple of their mates!

Then a little worse for wear i headed off to my posh packers private 'penthouse' as i like to call it in Broadway in Central Syd!

It's basically a Uni campus that YHA rent out during the christmas holidays using it as a hostel. It's quite funny what i now would class as luxury!! I have a big private bedroom with a double bed - my own bathroom - a wardrobe and even a fridge!!!!!! I was so excited about the fridge it was quite pathetic really! haha. It so nice to get my own space though and not being woke up by people nicking the fan or just being noisy in the morning!

Met up with Katy who had gone to Melbourne about 3 weeks ago last night, and what was suppost to be a chilled out night with a couple drinks at side bar ended up a pretty mad night firstly in side bar until the place was evacuated because of a bomb scare (not sure what happened there) then walked down to Scu Bar what although pretty much a dive with 5 and all that cheese playing - had an awesome night!

Out for one of the girls birthday tonight - a really cheap one though, because tomorrow IT'S NEW YEARS EVE BABY!!!!