oh well have been back in England for 5 days now after a 5 week adventure in Oz. I am still finding myself falling asleep at random times lol, hmmm might avoid driving he he

Thought I would tell all about my adventure in this blog as the likelyhood of me being able to meet up with everyone at once is unlikely (some of you have been very grown up and started work!) Me on the other hand I am trying to stay a student for a little longer :) though even i have to say sadly those days are numbered :(

Started our trip in Sydney, which is a fantastic city, though when we arrived the following day was the coldest they have had for a decade! go figure. Me and my mum had 5 days to ourselves to go exploring, got to put all those times of map reading during D of E to the test! We went to the Hyde Park convict prison, a very interesting and the same time creepy place. Saw Manly and all the surfers in the freezing cold sea water (rather them than me!!)

Started our coach trip and so this was us for the next four weeks, travelling round in a coach (not as horrible as one might think) with 5am wake up calls!!!

Barossa Valley was cool, have never seen so many grapevine ever it was just row upon row of grapes :) here we got to do some wine tasting hmmmm aussie wine is good :)

Coober Pedy, this was one of my favorite places :) is a mining town for opals, very dusty and hot. The people that live there deal with the 50 degrees celcius heat in the summer by building thier homes into hills and underground! Is so cool our hotel room was one of the underground one, there is no natural light and is pitch black when you turn out the lights. We got to go mining for opal in one of the old mines, went down with hard hat and pick in hand. I didnt find anything so just brought myself one in stead :)

Next major stop was uluru (ayers rock) which was huge!!! got to see the sunset and see the rock change colour. Went on a Harley Davison ride (I now want one!) and flew in a helicopter over the rock and the Olgas. decided not to climb it as one they dont really like you to and with one a chain fence to guide you up, hmm nah I like my life to much lol. I did however make my mum walk the base of the rock 9KM, i can not repeat what she was calling me afterwards :S

Got to go hot air ballooning at Alice Spring which was fantastic, is really quiet when you up in the air (apart from when the pilot is burning more gas!) Had to help inflate the balloon, which during this process the wind changed direction so i got engulfed by the material, a tad scary ! Once we had shifted the whole thing round and got it inflated we were up in the air and off.

Katherine, got to see some scary crocs :) rode a cruise down the river while some lady dangled meat over the edge from the top of the boat, the crocs would come over and jump out of the water to grab the meat right next to us!! very cool.

right i feel this is getting to long, so I think I will do it in instalments. As well as it is getting to the time when I start to fall asleep randomly (not always a pretty site! This is part one with part two to follow.

Deluded Angel