Hey folks, Anita here. I thought that I would add my own postcard as Mike left out a few little details. First of all, he is corret about the scuba steve comment. He went in with a bang and came out with...well lets just say not a bang. I don't know what the technique is for scuba diving, or if it is actually oxygen in those tanks. But man when Mike came up he was pretty much stoned. I think they were smoking something down there. It took him the rest of the time...

Good day Mates! Well what a few days it's been. I will start from the beginning of Thursday. Jet lag is a beautiful thing for a boy and girl who can't normally get out of bed in the morning. The alarm went off Thursday morning at 6:00 and we were already in the shower and half dressed (separately to clarify). Too bad the flip side of all of this new found energy in the AM means we are asleep by 9 or 10 at night. We are trouble when we go back over the date ...

Day 2 Well here we are again while you lazy ba#@$*ds are all sleeping. It's a cool 26 degrees with a little over cast here in Cairns. We checked out of our hotel this AM and into our hostel.. I must say that the hostel is cooler than the hotel. We spent the morning drinking coffee (flat whites) and eating croissants and raison toast (aren't we sophisticated? Then we spent the next 2 hours planning the rest of our Aussie vacation. Tomorrow we head to the Gr...

Hello all!! We made it safe and sound to Australia. It only took a stealth 36 hours. To pass the time we read books, watched 3 movies, did our ankle pumps, tried to sleep, read some more and stared at the back of the seat (8 inches) infront of our faces. This is our first real day in Cairns. So far we've been exploring the city. We've been walking for 9 hours just taking in the sites. 9 hours isn't bad considering that we slept for 15 hours last night. But t...