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Hey guys. Sorry it\'s been so long since we\'ve written. Things have been a little crazy since we arrived in Australia. We decided to try and buy a car when we reached Sydney since it\'s a little cheaper to do that than rent a car. The calling system is different here. You buy calling cards, pay a connection fee and then more fees on top of that per minute. It gets very expensive!! Needless to say we got very frustrated after 2 days in Sydney staying in the wrong (noisy, prostitutes, drugs) section of town. We didn\'t have a car to get around and on top of that it was raining, in a city that never gets rain. We also thought we lost our folder that had our passports, documents, and plane tickets. We found it in our room after a couple of hours of backtracking. We finally decided to rent a station wagon and split town but not before getting some surfing, shopping and drinking in at Bondi Beach. It seems that Sydney can be a nice place . As we drove through some really nice areas but were just so frustrated at that point that we drove north to some surfing beaches. We\'ve been surfing alot, sometimes 3 times a day. The weather is very hot here. We are both getting a lot of sun despite putting on lots of sunscreen. We\'ve decided to forego our original plan to drive up to Cairns because of the weather. The further north you get apparently the hotter it gets. We are thinking of driving to Brisbane and then catching a flight up there to do some diving at the Great Barrier Reef. We may go to New Guinea or leave for Thailand early in order to go to Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia. ??? It\'s all up in the air. This is actually the first time we\'ve been able to get internet access. The towns that we\'ve been travelling through are quite small and don\'t have it. I\'m going to close for now but here are some more pictures. We\'ve slowed down on taking them mostly because all we\'ve been doing is surfing and lounging around on the beach and they all look the same. No kangaroos or koalas yet, but we are still on the lookout. Oh and we splurged on a hotel room last night as sleeping in the back of our station wagon was getting to us!! Until next time....
Love ya!
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