Rest of Oz week!

Day 5:
Today we got up early to go to the Blue Mountains!
Our guide for the day was a man named Smokey who totally looked the part of a travel guide person/bush man lol. He was good though as he told us alot of stuff about Sydney and the places we were driving through and when we got to our hikes he pointed out many different plants and things which was interesting.
We drove past where the Sydney games had been held way back in the day so that was cool.
The first thing we did that day was stop at this park where he kept looking to see if we could see any Kangaroos in the wild. After a few attempts he finally found some so we all filed out of the bus to take a look and there were 2 Roo's just sitting there eating some morning breakfast. They didn't seem bothered at all that we were staring at them and they were soo cute!
I got a bit freaked out about this day as I was sure we would see either some spiders or some snakes so I wasn't looking forward to that part at all.
We stopped at a little cafe before heading onto the blue mountains where I got cinnamon toast and a Chai Latte (mmm home).
Then we went to the blue mountains and it was such a beautiful day for it, sunny and very blue skies so that was a good thing as it had been kind of crappy out the rest of this week.
When we got to the place there was this lookout and you can see in my pics that it just goes on for miles and miles of trees and cliffs and its just gorgeous! We walked alot that day and saw alot of beautiful scenery including a handful of waterfalls! WE also climbed alot of stairs so we were very tired by the end of the day lol.
Smokey (our guide) made us smell tea tree oil leaves, eucalyptus and showed us the plants that are used to make velcro (cool huh?).
We went on 2 different hikes that day and the 2nd one we had to walk down 950 some steps to get to the bottom, and it got pretty steep at times so that was a bit scary but good.
AND to my surprise we did not see one spider or snake the whole time so i was very very relieved about that!
The 2nd hike we went on there is a type of bird that lived there called a liar bird andhe was telling us we might seen one (we didn't of cours) but I guess these birds can mimic other bird sounds spot on and can even mimic cell phones ringing and babies crying! who cool is that?
Also on the 2nd hike we got to this lookout where we saw these 3 rocks just standing on a cliff and of course there was this huge long folk tale story about how they got there in the first place which was interesting. Then he told us all there was a koala in the tree beside us, we all looked up and saw the tiniest koala hanging on a branch, it could of fit in the palm of my hand and was clearly a toy they had placed there as joke, it was cute though lol.
So at the bottom of the 2nd hike we were to take this rail car/cage thing sort of like a roller coaster back up the mountain. I was so freaked out about this as they say its the steepest railway in the world and to my horror i found out we were going up it not down so we were being pulled backwards AND it had no seatbelts. WE got in the thing and i was shaking, the angle of the track was like at a 53 degree angle or something so it was pretty steep and i was practically standing in the car at one point while lying down that's how steep it was so yea that was not fun AT all but the rest of the day was totally awesome!
Another cool thing we did was that Smokey came to these rocks and he poured water on it and it made a paste. He told us it was called Oka or Okra and they used it to paint the walls of the caves back in the day to tell stories and stuff! So we mixed a bunch and used it as war paint on our faces which was fun lol.

Day 6:
Today was a free day cuz we had the pub crawl that night.
WE sat on the beach for a bit writing in our journals and just enjoying the beautiful beach and ocean! Then we met the girls at the office to discuss with Trent what we wanted to do this next coming week and to book our flight to where we were going.
Were all going to Cairns flying out on Saturday morning and when we get there we are going to look for jobs!
We also figured out what activities we wanted to do and roughly how much itwould cost us. This includes jungle surfing in Cape Tribulation (which is like zip lining through the rain forest! ) Scuba diving on the great barrier reef, includes seeing tons of beaches and a 3 day safari self drive trip (the english folk will drive no worries lol) from fraser island and also seeing whitsunday islands which are must do thingsto see on the East Coast!!!!! so we figured all that out and booked our flights.
Then us girls went shopping at this huge mall in Bondi Junction. It had 5 levels of shopping!!! BUT everything was like 50 dollars and they are WAY ahead of us in fashion over here then we are back home lol. So i was like i'm not buying anything for 50 bucks until i came to this store and found a cute black dress for 10 dollars only!!!! so i bought it to wear out to the Sydney tower dinner the next day. When we got back we all got ready to go out, i wore my blue dress.
We got on what they call the party bus lol, which was going to take us to 5 different bars that night where we got free drinks at each bar. BUT there free drinks were only wine and beer and i'm not a huge fan of either so I had a few glasses of wine but def didn't get 5 free drinks that night.
Most of the places were the same type of atmosphere so it was an ok night, but not spectacular! We got home very late though and then def slept in till the next day.

Day 7:
Today it was beautiful out so we went and sat on the beach for quite awhile. We didn't have anything to do until like 7pm. So we just chilled and hung out all day.
Then we all got dressed up a bit fancy to go out for dinner. I wore my new black dress i bought and all us girls got pretty dressed up which was fun.
We took the bus downtown to the Sydney tower where we had our supper that night. It was a beautiful view that's for sure of the city of Sydney all lit up at night, we saw the opera house lit up kinda but mostly buildings were in the way :(
It was a nice place though it was very dimly lit so youcould see the city lights and the whole restaurant part like revolved so you got a complete 360 degree look of the city which was cool. The food there was just ok though, they had a all you can eat buffet but not a great selection. There meat was not that good only the ham, and Yes i did try Kangaroo meat, I'm sad that i did but it's gross anyways it was soo bland and just tasted like nothing so i didn't like it, so no worries. But yea even there roast beef tasted funny so i wasn't really impressed by the dinner at all. It was still a fun night out even though i didn't get to sit at the table with all my group just with Dean and then other girls from our week so it was just an ok night.
Then when we got back we all were hyper so us girls put all our mattresses piled up on the floor and the boys were jumping off the bunks and landing on them and then of course they had to start drop kicking each other onto the mats lol. We also had a 7 man pillow fight it was really fun/funny.
Then we all watched a movie on my laptop and it was a good way to end the week for Ozintro!

WE had to move into a new room so we are right out on the balcony here now and the only thing we don't like is that it has a glass door with no shade or anything so we can't really change or anything in privacy which is annoying but oh well.
These past 2 days we've just hung out on the beach, and in each others rooms just hanging out, having a few drinks and having lots of lots of laughs!

Today i went to a store and bought some things including post cards and a special gift for my brother lol!
WE booked our stay at the hostel for when we get to Cairns on Saturday and then we just hung out watched a movie at the hostel until like 5:30.
Then we walked to this theatre about a 20 min walk cuz they all wanted to go and see the new Terminator movie. I wasn't soo keen on it cuz i hadn't seen the others but i went anyway. The movie theatre was like an actual old theatre so that was kinda cool and the movie was actually pretty good! It was super cold here today and the rumour is that tomm is going to be very nice like 23 so here's hoping.
IF it is nice out tomorrow we are going to doa 2 hour walk to Bondi beach and back to Coogee its called a coastal walk and I hear is absoloutley gorgeous so i'm excited for that and to finally just get some sun. Tomorrow is going to be a lazy dayi feel.
We also have to do up our resumes before we go on Sat but we still have a few days!
So yepp that is my update on life down under!
our week was awesome it was tons of fun and were very excited to move onto warm weather, sunshine and hopefully really soon WORKING!

Love you all and miss you all sooo much
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