Coogee Manor Apartments

... quick shower were out at the Opera house at 9.30am)<br>- Harbour Bridgeclimb - get strapped into a harness and walk up to the top of the bridge, a very slick operation The tour guide told us that a a couple of weeks beforehand when the dust storm was in town you couldnt see the opera house from the bridge !<br> - Bus tour round the city<br> - Blue mountains tour: a wildlife park (hug a Koala), the 3 sisters, a cable car and mining train down to the jungle ...

... to get there. <br><br>Tonight its a girls birthday so will be going to Kings Cross and having a party there. <br><br>Hope that you are enjoying the golf and the weather is better than yesterday. It has actually rained for a couple of days here in Coogee but today has been the hottest day by far in Australia. <br><br>I think that im meeting an old friend from school next week and heading to manly to stay with him for a while. <br><br><br> <br>

... 1st or business class but alas the budget didn't stretch that far. I did get an email to upgrade to business class for $750 each, maybe consider on the way back if we contain our spending & the offer is again extended. The ICE tv on the A380 is fantastic quality thou my earphone didn't work properly at first ...... Soon fixed. We left at 9:30pm on a 14.5 hour flight which after a second dinner & movie attempted the cattle class snooze.

... you have to learn when you're travelling! you have to stop worrying about what you look like! then again, i could have just become exceedingly lazy! after reaching the bottom of the peak and the campervan, we were met with the long drive up to norseman. norseman... was a night stop before the road ahead over the nullabor plain and into southern australia. before reaching norseman however, we made the mistake of not filling up with gas in esperance meaning not that far down ...

... it was simple, kind of skanky, but definitely worth $65 a week i.e. 30quid (there is no pound sign on my keyboard!!) One of the girls living there saw my Reading band and was like Hell yes you can come live here Score! haha so we are moving in on friday possibly they are going to think about it and ring us back tonight and tell us if we are in! we still had bags of time until 2 so we walked along the beach and i had forgotten to put on suncream so i got sunburn that was ...

... and then Bronte Beach), so that I could appreciate why Brad and Esther live where they do. The current was pretty strong, so I went swimming around the tidepools and the ocean-water filled lap pool they have on the beach. How awesome is that. The Aussies are extremely outdoors and fitness-conscious people. All along these beaches and paths, I constantly saw people running, swimming, surfing, doing the Parcourse ...

... inspected the apartment... So we had to call a carpet cleaner to come and solve the issue. Bad news: the carpet damage is irreversible. Apparently, the ceiling has been leaking water over time, creating water stains and mold on the floor. Then some prior tenant, a real genius, tried correcting the problem using bleach on the blue carpet. Untreatable stains and a mildew smell still linger, no matter how much disinfectant ...

... I'm only goin to get to do this once so may as well! Job Offer 2 days till leaving day and I had an urge to check my emails - when I looked I had received a message from my job agency with a job position somewhere in Victoria (where Melbourne is) but for some reason instead of replying to the agency I applied directly to the employer, call it fate because by the next morning I had a phone call from Theo - the manager ...

... send to people. Its great being back in Sydney i love it here, it's great seeing Aunty Liz again too cause I didn't get to see her for long really before we left for Cairns. Aunty Liz also brought both me and Kim a crate of Bubbles for our birthdays!!!!!!!! Can u believe it?? mmmmm. 15th December Today was job hunting day! We put on our glad rags and looked around Coogee town centre for vacancies anywhere we could. We noticed a few vacancies in Cafes so had to ...

... and had an icecream, then went Jet Boating!!!!!! That was fantastic! The boat took us all round the harbour and cause it was a jetboat the driver did afew spins etc so everyone was soaked. They ran out of ponchos so acouple of people got wetter more than others LOL like Kim, bless her. We saw dolphins too, one was swiming along side the boat at one point :). We got back to the hostel and chilled a bit everyone's fighting for the shower but tomorrow ...