Back in Sydney

Two things we forgot to mention in yesterdays post
1. On our 3 and a half hour bushwalk we climbed around 1000 stairs! It was a great butt workout!
2. we went to the Common Ground Cafe. If you are not aware, there is the same cafe in winnipeg on sherbrooke street. It is owned by the 12 tribes. We thought it was pretty cool that they had the same thing in Australia
Today:
Took the train back to Sydney. It was a rainy day here. We went to Wildlife World and we got to pet a koala! It was a pretty sweet time! The butterflies attacked Erica because she was wearing a pink jacket! It was pretty funny!
Tomorrow we are heading to Melbourne to visit our friends we met in Ireland! we are both super excited for it! We haven't done any partying yet because we have been super tired and have done a lot of walking around during the day! I have a feeling some major partying action will start tomorrow night!

Katoomba

Erica and I took the train to Katoomba today to see the blue mountains. Erica claims the mountains look a bit blue...but I couldn't really see the blueness ( I think she is a bit crazy). We walked 20 minutes to Echo Point. we saw cockatoo on the way there and got super excited! we thought it was a parrot... At Echo point you can see the three sisters. You should look up the story about the three sisters on the internet..it is pretty fancy. Then we walked an hour to Katoomba Falls and then we went to Scenic World!!!!!!! We got to go on a Skyway (a gondola thing that took us from one cliff to the other, a cableway, and a railway! It was pretty sweet! we were so high up!!! It is pretty cold here...you can see your breath. I am currently wearing two sweaters. The internet is pretty expensive here so I only have like 2 minutes left so I am going to have to apologize for this boring post and I will make it up to you at a later time ( I promise)!

Sydney

Well Erica and I had a super long flight here. However we were super pumped that the backs of the seats in front of us contained a tv screen! We watched Yes Man, Twlight, Bride Wars and I watched part of Madagascar (cause I am cool like that). Erica was watching the Mighty Boosh. we stopped in Vancouver for 12 hours. As soon as we got there we decided it was a good idea to wander through the parking lot to find a bench. We found this random park at the side of the parking lot so we went and sat there for a while! We met Erica's sister for a couple of minutes (she was leaving Vancouver to go back to Winnipeg). We then took the bus to downtown Vancouver. While I was telling Erica a lame story about how going over speed bumps in a RV was the best time of my life, we met Jaeger. He tried to help us on our bussing extravaganza. He just got back from Surfing in the Phillipines and he pretty much knew as much about the bus system as we did. We got on this bus that took us on a complete tour of Richmond and we ended up back where we started and then the bus finally took us downtown. We wandered around downtown for a while and then proceeded to almost fall asleep in Starbucks.
Upon our arrival in Sydney Erica's bag was nowhere to be found. Some kind airport worker gentleman located her bag in Auckland (we stopped there.). It will hopefully be at the hostel when we return in a couple of minutes. Right now we are at a travel agent/Internet Cafe where another kind gentleman planned our entire Australia trip. He booked our tours and some other spectacular activities that I will not expose to the general public at this time. As you can probably tell we have kind of had no sleep. We did go to Manly beach though...it was pretty manly. We took a Ferry there and Erica wanted to go tubing behind the boat. We went past the Sydney opera house which is yellow. We are not going to party tonight because we are practically dead.
We are going to eat some tasty bites right now.
we are heading to the blue mountains tomorrow. Erica and I aren't sure if they are actually blue or not...we'll keep you updated on that one. Hope you guys are having as much fun as we are! Hopefully you didn't get anymore snow!

ONE WEEK!

Erica and I leave for Australia in exactly one week today! We leave on April 26th at 8:00AM and then fly to Vancouver, spend the day in Vancouver and then fly to Auckland and then to Sydney! That is going to be an intensely long plane ride!! Hopefully we will be able to get more than 20 minutes of sleep on the plane (unlike our flight to Europe). We have booked our first hostel so far but other than that we are just going to go with the flow. We are going to spend the day in Sydney and then go 2 hours out of sydney the next day to Katoomba to see the Blue Mountains. Then back to Sydney and maybe book a flight to Melbourne to visit some friends we met in Ireland (who live in Melbourne) and we will see where that leads us. Erica and I are both super excited to be able to get out of Winnipeg and travel again! We are also super excited because we are stopping in Auckland on the way back for around 9 days and get to see Alicia and Marilee and Gordon! It should be a fantastic time!