Candice and Besie get punctured (In the pouring rain)
We are in Sydney!! and it is wetter than home!!!!
Byron bay was a little dissapointing, there wasnt much to do, or much to see so we had a quiet few days there, but we did manage to make friends with nice people who were goign to surf camp with us so it wasnt a complete waste. As soon as we left Queensland and crossed into NSW it started raining and the weather has been pretty naff since then.
We got on the bus for surf camp annoyingly early, and found out that we had Trigger as our driver ( we have heard lots of good things about him, and hes the brother of Frat one of the other drivers weve had) He was a blast and had a wide range of cheesy 80’s pop on his ipod 
We got into Surf Camp about 1ish and got pretty much straight into wetsuits and into the water. The waves were quite a bit smaller than in Noosa so the wipeouts wernt as bad. Because there were about 22 people surfing and only 5 instructors we got a chance to catch waves all on our own ( somethign we struggled with before) We are now so good at surfing that there have been talks of sponsorship, but nothing official just yet.
After that we went back to the camp and hung out till Dinner. Another oz bus turned up driven by Frat, so we had the two brothers keeping us amused all evening. They even brought their girlfriends along ( Candince and Besie the blow up cow and sheep)
We got into Sydney last night in the pouring rain, traffic was pretty bad because a few roads and lanes had been flooded. We are now off out to check out the sights and landmarks. I think tomorrow we might head on a vineyard tour and go wine tasting.
Lots of Love
Steff & Rach x
Fourex is better than VB
Weve left it a while to do an update so theres quite a bit to report.
While we were still in Brisbane we went to see Cobra starship and the Academy is, and bar a few sound issues they were surprisingly watchable so that was quite a cool night. We also saw Miss Siagon whilst we were there which was really good, but not a classic, and a tad depressing in parts.
On our way out of Brisbane we were lucky enough to have Forest as our driver again ( the one we had for Kroombit) so that made the drive fly by far too quickly for our liking.
After that we spent 4 days in surfers paradise. We had a wander around and a look at the sights, and on Monday we went to Dream world theme park. Its quite a bit smaller than Alton Towers but there were enough rides to scare us quite alot, especially tower of terror which broke whilst we were on it and we got wound back in and heard the really comforting words “Something went wrong but we will try again and it will probably be ok this time” While we were there we also got the see the tiger demonstration (which includes the most adorable baby cubs in the world) and the cougar demonstration (the only down side to the day was getting back to late to watch neighbours :P)
This morning we had lots of time to kill before we hopped back on the oz bus to Byron, so we though we would check out the wax museaum. I have never been more dissapointed and angry at a tour guide in my life. She knew nothing you couldnt learn in 20mins at Gallaries of justice, didnt tell us anything we didnt already know, and lots of her facts were obviously wrong or suspect. (she was talking about “some university in London” and when I asked her which one, she just said ” oh i think it teaches science or something”) She was also extreamly anti european and had a silly voice, and the guide who took over half way through was worse!
We are now in a nice little hostel in Byron that has free bike rental so tomorrow I think we plan to cycle to the light house that marks the most Easterly point of Australia, which is nice.
Despite inept tour guides we are still having a really great time and meeting lots of nice people. Another blog will follow soon with our exploits in Byron
You miss us
Steff & Rach x
Oscars in the goon…. (someone does dallas)
Hello from Brisbane.
Its a very odd city and not much like vegas at all, more like birmingham. Although it is nice to be back in a place with buildings over 3 stories high.
Weve been here about 5days now, and spent far too much time in the hostel bar. We met a guy called Dj ont he bus on our way into Brisbane and through him we met a great group of people, who were all Irish and all had ridiculous nicknames including The Chief, Dallas, Minks, Superman and Jakeycakes(jaffacakes) and becuase the bar was loud when i first got introduced everyone thought my name was Geoff, so that stuck for the next 3 days. (Rob and craig were also in that group but they had nice normal names, but were equally lovely) They have all moved on now which is the unfortunatly the backpackers curse.
As well as drinking and stealing peoples hats, we also went to check out the Australia Zoo, the cultural and science museum and we have just got back from the tour of the XXXX brewary.
The Zoo was awesome even though we dont liek steve irwin (which can get you lynched in this country) and also they have his little daughters face plastered all over the zoo and its very very creepy. On the plus side we did get to see a giant toitoise sneeze.
We have made a change to our plans, so we will only be in Surfers and Byron for 4 days each, 5 in sydney and then a week in melbourne ( so we will be able to fit in the tour of the neighbours set) I will post the changes at some point so you can see where we will be.
We are off to the hotel tomorrow which we have been bought for rach’s birthday (thank you!) Then we have the planatarium and a concert on wednesday, and a trip to see miss saigon on thursday.
See you all soon
Steff and Rach x