We arrived at the airport, armed with our passport and Natasha's Qantas Club Card. We managed to get seats together and proceeded to celebrate the fact that our holiday was officially here! A bottle of bubbles, some antispasto, a few photos and then the Qantas Club told us to line up for boarding......
Lisa and Steve took us out to their fav. resturant for dinner. It was lovely. After dinner Kane's brother Kye came along forsome family snap shots...Then the long awaited last night sleep ahead was all that lay ahead before the big adventure began.
On Friday 23rd of March I had a few beers with Nick (my travel buddy and temp-job co-worker) and Alaina (co-worker at the Dept. of Water) after work. The culture in Oz, it seems, is to have beers immediately after work from the in-house bar. It's nice that so many people go and that the beers are cheap! We took full advantage from 4-7pm and left...
got here yesterday., ACTAUALLY ITS 6TH 2DAY wen we arrivved at customs we got picked out and they emptied all of our bags and told us that we were carrying mdma (ecstassy) after bot 1hour thourrough search they let us move on. f****ng English reject, Kangaroo shagging, lightweight fosters drinking, flag stealing, shrimp munching, convict c*** ne...
We spent our last full day in Perth at Rottnest Island, a 45-minute boat ride from Hillary's Dock, near where the Marshalls live. It is a terrific island. It takes 45 minutes to circumnavigate it by bus. There are hardly any other motor vehicles on the island, but swarms of people riding bikes. What makes it truly unique is the number of picture...
This evening Katie, Tammy, Lindsay, Dana, Tara, and I went to Robyn and David's house. Robyn is an Aboriginal artist who is working with the CMU group. We all decided we'd like to go to her house to see some of her work and the process she uses when painting. I got there and found so much that I liked. She uses a lot of traditional art methods, ...
Wow, Perth is lovely. I really like it here. Only had a chance for a quick wander around but still, really nice. Even had a chance to see the film Memoirs of a Geisha, I want to read the book again now. Had a bit of a panic on arrival. We were stuck on the runway for over half an hour in a thunderstorm. The ground crew are not allowed on the tar...
We woke up several times in the middle of the night, feeling like it was time to get up, but by about 9.30am, felt like we could sleep for another 8 hours! We had to get up though, or we'd miss breakfast... Today has been fairly uneventful and slightly depressing: it has rained all day long and we had no umbrella, the company we were hoping to g...
Finally, we went to Kings Park, however we wish we didn't. Kings Park is the worlds largest inner city park - even bigger than central park in NY! It has botanical gardens, nature trails, a tree top walk with views of the city and lots of memorials for war heroes. We got up nice and early for a sausage sarnie and got the bus about 11.30, we saw ...
