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New Years eve
so today we just got ready and went to meet rob at the Sydney opera house, got there about 2pm as we had heard it fills up quick and people had been there overnight. so we got a good spot and sat for about 10 hours. We had some snacks prepared and cards so we just chilled for a while then played snap !! But snap with a difference…instead of saying snap we had to say an Australian word, was so funny….and passed some time ! haha !
The atmosphere was really good and down by the river they had music and the view was amazing. At 9pm they had the 1st set of fireworks, which were amazing. Then we had a few more hours until midnight. Got some good pics but we were both secretly bit disappointed, thought they would go on longer - and to be fair - I have seen better elsewhere (Hayling island!!)
So once it was all over we had a hug, was really missing everyone, as this was the 3rd big event in the past week for me, so I called home and got to speak to Nic & Mum ;)
New Years Day was so lovely, we started by doing the Coogee - Bondi walk (didn't do it the other day) and it was gorgeous, right along the coast, took a few hours then we arrived at Bondi were we had a dip in the sea J Then had a little look round the shops and back to the hostel to get ready to go for CHinsese. We went to china town, and it was the BEST Chinese ive ever had, everything was amazing, so delicious! (the duck still had its head!! Uurgh)
Tonight was Robs last night so we were going to go up the skytower but were too late, it had closed.
2nd Jan we checked out of Surfside, was about 6am and there was a fight…so we had to pick our moment to escape and run ! Glad to be out of here to be honest !!
Today was our Blue Mountains trip and our 1st stop was Wentworth falls, another hike to a beautiful waterfall….but half way, the heavens opened and we got absolutely soaked !! We had left our rain coats on the bus !! The rain finally stopped and we dried off in the sun, but then just as the tour guides had put out lunch, it poured again …so we had soggy sandwiches !! L
We then went on another walk, and finished with a ride up the steepest railway in the world !! Goes to a 52 degree angle at one point, so a little hairy, but good fun ! Oh and on this tour we met the two girls we had met the 1st day in Singapore !! Spooky !!
When we got back we checked in to our Maze Backpackers in the city, had a twin room, but it was so tiny and had no plugs L Tonight we went out for a delicious $5 buffet, so we had chinese, salad & pasta J Then we went to meet Simone and went for a drink up the Sky Tower, was really nice and had amazing views of the city, I had a toblerone cocktail which was yummy !
The 3rd we spend on our longest bus journey so far - 15 hours !! So not much to tell apart from we got stuck next to a tiny cute baby and her druggy dad, but they were quite well behaved. Didn't seem to take too long and they put a movie on which was good !
Arrived in Byron Bay about 10pm and had to walk to find our hostel, I was in SO much pain - think I need to lighten my rucksack ;)
Anyway woke the next day and spent most of the morning planning and booking all our tours for the east coast, bit stressful but great to get it all organised J
We then went for an explore around the town and its gorgeous, I love it here, the town is much more modern, although small and quirky, such great shops and later we went for the walk up to the lighthouse and the beach is amazing !!
Tonight we had a true backpackers dinner of pasta (82c) and having it tonight too ! Then we went with the girls from our room out to a gig and for a drink in town, really nice.
Today we went on Jims tour to Nimbin …a totally hippy town, was quite an experience, our tour guide was proper hippy so was interesting to find out how he lives. The town is full of people selling Cannabis, and all the hippies want it legalised, but once a month the police turn up and they were there today….we saw someone arrested and a lot of people questioned !
So tomorrow were off to Surfers paradise…hoping to do some surfing lessons J
Hope all is well xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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