Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

Sorry that it’s taken us so long to update this! We have been so so busy here in Byron Bay. Although we also didn’t have a good internet connection at the first place that we stayed. Which had potential to be really awesome, but they were so relaxed and the bathrooms were disgusting. The showers had tons of hair in it. They had a cinema and a bar and a spa and a pool and a hot tub. So much stuff, so potential to be awesome but just really not. The first day that we were here we just wandered around, checked out the shops, went to the beach and just had a relaxing day. The second day we took a walk up to the lighthouse. The walk had absolutely breath taking views but it was so hard! And Mandy was in jeans so that didn’t help either because I was sweating like crazy. And then lighthouse wasn’t really that great but it was nice to go to and something that was free. The third day we took a day trip to Nimbin. Nimbin is a small little town that promotes or I guess is much more tolerant of an alternative lifestyle. You can buy weed just about anywhere and it’s not legal but I think that it’s more tolerated. It was a really neat town and we wandered around for awhile and went into the museum where you can learn heaps about the towns history. It’s amazing how much history a small town can have when you start to learn about it. After we wandered through the town we went and had a bbq and then went to a waterfall to swim. It was so amazing! But we forgot our swimsuits so we couldn’t go in the water.

We have completely changed our plans for this trip and are now headed back down south so we will be having a 12 hour train ride tomorrow :( We were going to head north but we haven't heard back from the friend that we were supposed to be staying with so we are going to go down south to melbourne and canberra. In canberra we can stay with Hannah's friend Cameron and then we are going to try and find a flat in melbourne so we can settle in and get some jobs hopefully. Maybe we will do that in Canberra instead I don't know. It's lovely not having to make any decisions though and just sort of go with it. So after Melbourne (where we will stay for a month or 2) we are going to fly over to Perth and then stay there for a month or 2 and then possibly rent a van and drive over to Adelaide and up to Alice Springs and Ayers rock and then up to cairns and down the coast to Sydney where we will fly back home in April. Hopefully this all works out and we are able to do that. But who knows what will happen...it's all up in the air until we actually have stuff booked, which is just perfect. But it's also nice to kind of have a tentative plan.

The photos are taking way too long to upload on to here so I will put them on another time soon I promise and we both have pictures on facebook although none of Byron Bay yet so check those out if you have a chance. I'll post photos soon I promise.