At last I have caught up… well given a brief summery of recent happenings. I am now in Australia and having the time of my life.

Onto the present day… almost!

Kat, Emily and I arrived in Australia absolutely exhausted early last Thursday morning after having driven through New Zealand for the majority of the night and only having grabbed a couple of hours sleep on the plane. Jonny (a mate from uni) waited two hours for our delayed plane to arrive in Sydney and greeted us at the airport.

Jonny has been in Australia for a while working on a farm and hooking up0 with mates he met whilst snowboarding in Canada,. It was good to catch up with him and find out about all the things he’s been up to.

Luckily after a week of partying in Melbourne and an early plane back to Sydney Jonny was also knackered and together we headed back to our hostel to grab some much needed sleep.

By the time we’d got back, sorted ourselves out and crawled into bed it was almost two in the afternoon. I roused myself from my slumber around five, showered and headed to the airport to pick up our latest arrival – my sister Naomi.

I arrived just before she ambled through arrivals. I smiled as she approached but she looked right through me. She had almost walked past me when I said: “hi,” “Oh, I didn’t recognise you,” came the response. I’ve only been away for a year. Is that really enough time for my own sister to forget what I look like?!

It’s actually quite strange to see a family member after being away for so long. Naomi put me up to date on all the happenings in England including the news of my nan marring her bus driver in Gretna Green during her coach holiday to Scotland. My nan has assures me she’s already divorced him!!! I get the impression the marriage wasn’t real!

I took Naomi back to the hostel dumped her bags and after meeting the others briefly we grabbed some dinner before retiring to bed.

Early the next morning Emily roused herself and headed to the airport to meet her friend Katy. Around 10am they came into the room and woke us all introducing us to Katy and completing our temporary six person travelling posse.

Friday was a relaxed day. Emily and Katy being tired slept for most of the day whilst Kat, Naomi, Jonny and I made ourselves scarce heading into the centre of Sydney in search of Aussie sim cards to put us back in touch with each other and the rest of the world. It’s very strange having a mobile again and extremely odd to think that for the first time in three months if we loose each other we are able to contact each other!

That evening we attempted a night out, but a combination of jet lag on the part of those travelling form the Northern hemisphere and a lack of sleep from those of us who’d been in the Southern hemisphere for a while meant we were home in bed by midnight! The next day our real Aussie adventure began.

More to come on that in another post.

* Posted by j150vsc on 11/10/2007.
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