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G'day mate!
My final stop in Australia was Sydney which was going to be action packed because not only was my best buddy Nat visting me all the way from the UK but it's also Xmas and New Year i.e party time!!
After a 12 hour bus trip to Sydney from Byron Bay I arrived on xmas eve very early Nat was due to land about an hour after I arrived so I got very excited!! Although I wasnt too happy about how rough I looked as I wanted to look tan and fabulous for Nat lol! It was really cold when I arrived too like Melbourne was, I made my way to the hostel and couldnt check in yet so bummed around on the internet till Nat got there. It was so great to see Nat after what feels like so long but as always with good friends you feel like you havent been apart after two seconds! Was the same with Bek and Nic, its so hard to say bye to your close friends though cos they are such easy company, although its fantastic to meet so many new people from all over the world you have give your back ground story which feels a bit like a rehearsed speech by now and I dont want to sound like a robot haha. Anyway I will stop waffling and tell you what we got up to!
First we went to see a moron tour booker who basically tried to make us think we wouldnt be able to do anything for two weeks cos the city was so full.... bull s*** I could so do her job! Booked us a blue mountains tour within 5 mins online... she told us we wouldnt get anything till mid Jan! We also managed to get on a backpacker harbour cruise for xmas eve it was originally sold out but they put an extra boat on we were really pleased it was nice to see the harbour all lit up and it was the first time I'd heard xmas songs on a night out in all of December would you believe! We met a nice couple and spent the night with them but now we may think the guy is weird cos he touched nats leg under the table!! Scandalous! After we got home it was after 12 so I decided I would open my cards and presents from the girls hehe :) I was too tempted to wait till morning! I was so happy with my gifts and cards (Lynsey's card was great) and we even got a little xmas tree too :) thanks girls you really made xmas homely for me!!
The next day we went to a pub for xmas dinner it was for backpackers and it tasted like school dinners.... not my mum's xmas dinner standard at all! But it was fun to be in oz for xmas and we wore our pink santa hats because we are new trend setters! The sun came out late afternoon so we decided to head to Bondi Beach it was soooo packed but really cool such a weird sight seeing all those santa hats in the sea and the beach! Really cool though! In the evening we went for a walk around the harbour which was really busy too loved seeing so many people on xmas day! We did something unthinkable and had maccy d's on xmas day too haha got to be done!
Boxing Day we went Bondi Beach as we never got the chance to sunbathe the day before, Im a bit mixed up on my days but I'm pretty sure we went to the IMAX this night which was very educational... i.e boring sea life film which I thought would be about cool dolphins not shrimps haha none the less it was impressive because of the 3D but what me and Nat really wanted to see was Santa versus Snowman but we missed that movie!
We did alot of shoppping one day and got ugg boots :) we met up with Cath the night she got to Sydney and went to the Gaff the same pub we had xmas dinner at... bit of meat market in there especially when the oz bus crew rock up! We met an aussie guy who tried to brag about his membership to the ivy club and how exclusive it is blah blah and did we wanna go! Yeah three backpackers in their flip flops will fit right in we all told him we werent impressed with snobby places full of arrogant people hehe deflated his ego! But I think he really impressed us with the old 'they know me in there because I have been in a KFC commercial' whoooooooooooooo go you!!! We managed to ditch him eventually thank god! I really cant stand braggy show offs! I did manage to bull s*** him into thinking Nat was on X Factor though I do like a good lie!
We went to the aquarium too which was fun and we found a Murray fish named after our friend Tash we decided! We saw a massive sting ray (I chose not to hold this one responsible for the late Steve Irwin's death as he had a smiley face like the one in finding nemo) and a really cute turtle that was hugggggggggge! We went to the zoo one day which was impressive I loved the giraffes! Nat fell in love with the Koalas they were jumping about all over the place and climbing really high which is rare to see because they sleep 22 hours a day (lucky things!).
We had a night out in an Irish bar one night too which was packed! I bumped into some girls I had met before. Emma and Cath came along too. I got chatting to a girl that did a trek america tour similar to the one I will be doing soon and she said it was excellent and now I'm extra excited!! She was actually in oz with a girl she met on the tour!
we took a trip to the beautiful blue mountains, we walked right down near the bottom of them and saw waterfalls etc and then took a train which lays you vertical to go back up apparently the steepest incline a train has ever been on! Our tour guide owned the company and was a bit mad, he was so rude to everyone which border line amusing at times but otherwise really shocking! We also went to the lookout point for the three sisters although our charming tour guide never told us anything about it so me and Nat brought a post card with the story about it on haha!
Me and Nat went to see the film Australia as we were in... Australia! It was brilliant I really recommend it and Nat if you are reading this... 'I sing you to me Mrs Boss' also the guy who plays Drover the lead male is FIT! So we were pleased about that! Nicole Kidman also managed to make me laugh which was somewhat unexpected :p a woman must lose her sense of humour when married to Tom Cruise... clearly the trauma is wearing off now :)
Me and Nat also did the Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb which was great!! Fantastic views and really sexy outfits to wear as a bonus! A girl that was on my Fraser Island tour called Rachel was on the same climb was so random as there are so many climbs every day! We arranged to meet up for New Years Eve.
Will right more about Sydney soon as running out of internet time! xxx
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