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We flew from New Zealand into Sydney, Australia with no money but our credit cards! Our original intentions was to stay for a while in Sydney before flying to Perth but this had to change as soon as we landed we had no money to stay the night so we booked a last minute flight to Perth on our credit cards. We then phoned Lukes Auntie Deb and said we will be in Perth in five hour please can you pick us up and please may we stay for a while?
Lukes Auntue and Uncle picked us up and this was going to be our base for a while. Luke got a job within three days working in a bakery as a maintenance worker. I got a job within a couple of days for a estate agents called LJ Hooker. Luke changed his job within a week to a meter reader and we often walked the streets in Perth at 40 degree heat reading meters together! The first few weeks leading upto Christmas we stayed in a lot due to lack of money but luckily our friends from Lancing lived in the same town where we were staying called Willetton, so we often popped round in the evenings for pool parties etc.
Luke changed his job again to a Australian Air Express Courier and this was a much better job as this meant we no longer had to get on the train from Bull Creek into Perth City Centre and we could go out at the weekends because he had a van! The first weekend we got this van we drove to see the Pinaccles in the desert this was such a fun day and we even got to see our first Kangaroo.
Christmas was a very different Christmas it was 42 degrees and we spent it in the pool with a roast cooking on the BBQ. We went to watch the Christmas parade in Perth and also the nativity in the city centre.
After Christmas Candice and Laura from Lancing come to stay with the boys and as we had been working we had a little bit more money so we were able to go on mate dates!
One of our mate dates in particular was a road trip to Bumbury were we all stayed in one room and went out for the night and this ended up us loosing Michael Moynan, we looked everywhere for him and we gave up around 3am and went back to our room. Around 5am there was a knock at our door and it was Michael he had been arrested for drunk and disordally and had to appear in court back in Bumbnury in a few weeks time with a huge fine! Bear in mind Mike had no transport and Bumbury was around 5 hours away from Perth he was not happy!! We then went on a boat trip the next day to see the dolphins.
We spent most weekends together on one occasion we went to Freemantle night tour prison which was very scary, we went to Hillarys Boat Harbour and went to the Aquarium. We also got tickets to watch England play cricket but this game was over by the time we went to the bar and came back.
We also met with some friends we met in Peru and they very kindly took us to Rottnest Island on their own boat for the day.
Towards the end of February Luke could not get any more work as his contract with Australian Air had ended and the Lancing lot were due to go home anyday soon so we decided to book a last minute flight home. We decided to not tell none of our friends and family but to give them a suprise after 7 months!
Home Sweet Home! xx
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