Ground Hog Day!Today I went to work at my leadership training day, which seemed to go on forever, as work frequently does when you are going on holiday the next day.I hurried home and finished the last of my packing and then headed to the airport the taxi ride seemed to go forever and there was a lot of traffic.I got to the airport and met my group, went through duty free and boarded my Hawaiian arilines flight to Honolulu. The flight seemed to go on forever and ...

Today, we gave the car back and decided to hang around the hotel ion Darwin.We went swimming in the beautiful hotel pool and had a really nice lunch at the hotel restaurant. We went for a walk on the beach and I paddles in the Arafura Sea, wasn't game to swim, too many boxed jelly fish...geez just about everything can kill you up here!The sand was really soft and I kept sinking into it, which was a little worrying considering it was full of crabs. We also went t...

I arrived in Darwin at about 12:30pm and checked into my hotel at Sky City Casino even later, where Ben was waiting.I attempted to get some sleep,but didn't really manage it as I was pretty excited.In the morning we got up and had breakfast in Darwin and picked up our hire car. We then decided to take a drive out to Litchfield Park.We drove for about 2 hours and then started to drive through the park.The first place we stopped was at some giant termite mounds, w...

So I've been given a free trip to Bangkok by my new friends at Flight Centre who I know work for and Thai Airways.I left work at about 2:30pm and headed for the airport.I got there and checked into my flight and had a whole row to myself for the 9 hour flight. We landed in Bangkok around 11pm and reach our hotel by about 12am.We stayed at a really nice four star place, much, much nicer than the accommodation I'm used to on my travels.My room had a spa and its ow...

We made it all the way up to Bundaberg and are now staying with Ben's Mum. I have met his Mum and sisters and they are really nice and we are both having lots of fun.We went out and explore his Mum's huge farm and went paddock bashing in Ben's old Cilica, which he managed to get working even though it was a foot high in grass. We have also been out camping at the beach, we pitched a tent and slept on an air mattress which of course kept going down all night.We w...