3/1/06 This is the day we arrived and it was a long flight of 21 hours! The first thing we did was nearly get arrested as we had fruit in our bags and ur not allowed to bring nything like that in2 the country! Ironically it was given to us by Qantas their own airline! Anyway we headed for our resort and as it was 6am we couldnt check in so we had breakfast and had showers in their hospitality lounge and then did the only thing women can do when they r bored, yep go shopping! We checked out Cairns and it seemed a bit dead but we thought it was early, we then headed back and we checked in2 our room which was ok and then we went to sleep! Didn't wake up til 5pm and got ready for dinner. After dinner we went and met our Contiki group the seemed ok! 4/1/06 We woke up relatively early and headed into Cairns town centre for breakfast! We found this cafe that served a decent breakfast but Binita decided she wanted pancakes and when they came she decided she wanted to put chocolate sauce on it, wel ull have to just look at how much she put on when u see the pics but put it this way more went on after! i just had a normal english breakfast! At 1pm we headed off to the local rainforest station with the Contiki group and we got to watch the aboriginal dances and then we got to throw boomerangs, it was interesting, I had to run for cover wen I did mine! On the way back we had to go down this really windy road and both of us started feeling really sick, it was strange! When we got back we went to sleep cos we were stil jet lagged! Nyway that evening we went out with the group for dinner and we got a chance to chat with them and get to know them a bit more but its hard to get to know abt 50 people! 5/1/06 Today was the day for the ultimate jump, yep 14000ft. We left our resort at 7.30am,and headed south towards Mission Beach with Paul's Parachute, which is where we were supposed to land! We arrived at the beach about 10am and the beach was so beautiful and the weather was so lovely and bright blue skys! We were told we were not gonna jump till 1.30pm so we went to a local hostel called Scotty's to cool off and have a swim and just chill and watch the other people land! At 1.30pm we headed off to the airport and we were given our 5mins of training and then met the guys we were gonna tandem with and the rest ull just have to c on my dvd of my jump or did I really do it! When we got back to the hotel we just both crashed even though it was only 4pm. The next morning we were going hot air ballooning. 6/1/06 We got up at 3.30am to get ready for our 4.25am start. We headed for our destination but were told we were going on the second flight but we got a chance to take pics of our balloon taking off and then we got back in the coach and followed our balloon until it was going to land! As it was landing in a farmer's field we had to get in trucks with no handles and sit on hay bales it was mad! Once the balloon landed we had to get in2 the basket really carefully so some people got out and some people got in but each section only had 4 people in it and there were 18 people in our group. We were right next to the pilot and it was really hot. We took off and it was an amazing sight but I started feeling really sic and ended up throwing up over the edge, good thing there was no one below! I sat down just so that I didn't get so hot and when we landed it was really hard on my bum! I think I had altitude sickness cos I never get travel sick! On landing we had to help put the balloon away but they made me sit in the a/c land rover! We came back had breakfast and then went back to our resort but this time we didn't sleep we went and chilled by the pool and got to know some more of the group! In the evening we headed out for a decent but cheap meal and we found a really good italian and then we went for ice cream! We then headed back to the rresort to pack our bags for our 6am check out!