The first thing that was necessary to get our heads around when arriving in Rarotonga in the middle of the night, was that despite leaving Sydney on Tuesday morning at 11.30, we arrived in the Cook Islands at about 3am, on Tuesday. Which means that, really, we have had two Tuesday 2nd Junes. Which makes it very complicated to think what time it is at home, never mind what day. We're 11 hours behind, which is horrifically different - and will rear its ugly head wh...

Saturday morning we both decided to do different things - Liam wanted to visit the Maritime Museum and Claire wanted to go back to Glebe Market. It was absolutely throwing it down with rain so we both got really wet on separate parts of the city, but managed to find our way back at lunchtime to meet at Bar 333. Whenever we go there it's never as busy as when we drive past on the bus... but either way it does a mean toasted sandwich. We had an afternoon spare befo...

Thursday was a nice day again (yay!) so we jumped at the chance to catch a ferry over the water to Manley, about half an hour away. We somehow managed to get first dibs on the seats on the boat, so ran to the very back deck at the front.... unwise it may have seemed but when the boat pulled out of Circular Quay we were rewarded with gorgeous views of the city, the Opera House, the Bridge and the Botanical Gardens, all in one. Half an hour later, we pulled into Ma...

Today brought the daredevil feat that was SKYDIVING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We were both pretty giddy considering it was 6am this morning, an early start for us, but we leapt out of bed and ran down to the pickup at 7am from outside the skydiving shop. We had to fill in a load of paperwork (basically excluding the company from potential suing in case of death) and Claire got quite petrified upon reading, more than once 'Skydiving is a dangerous activity where peo...

Yesterday was our cheap day to combat the horrific spending spree we had undertaken the past week. In the morning we sorted out all of our photos and neglected blog entries, willed the weather to improve, then in the afternoon we picnicked outside the ferris wheel adjacent to Darling Harbour and mulled over what to do in the afternoon. It seemed the best option was to visit one of the many cheap museums/galleries, so as it was close, we picked the PowerHouse Musu...