Hi everyone! Sorry I haven't updated the site much this week its basically because I haven't been doing anything that interesting! Well, apart from 'sunbaking' as the aussies say!! After arriving in Manly we booked ourselves into the hostel from HELL so quickly moved onto a guest house which seems like the only sane place to be at night here, its much more luxury than we've been used to (dorms!) as we've got our own little room and twin beds - better than bunks thats for sure! We've been here a week now and the weather has been lovely reaching boiling temperatures yesterday so we booked ourselves onto a surf lesson to cool off a bit.... I'll tell you now its not as easy as it looks! (and I'm not just saying that to save face :) I fell off the board and slam dunked myself into the sea so much... however we both managed to stand up (if you can call standing - half crouching, half falling but it was GREAT FUN!! We had long boards which are massive but quite spongey yet they still flipping hurt when they land on your head and other people crash into you! (I nearly knocked Kaz out a couple of times). Everytime I looked around we were both washed up on the beach like something out of Robinson Crusoe tee hee. I came away the cleanest I've been for ages I think, my head was full of water, I was bruised and battered but still smiling. Today however we're suffering from achy arms and bruises haha but HEY we're in Oz so we got to be surf dudes at some point eh! Just call me Crush... duuuuuuuuude! We're going to spend today in recovery phase (i.e not doing much!) and tomorrow the have a 'Bird man' competition down at the wharf so we're going to watch people dress up in silly costumes and throw themselves into the sea - ha! On Monday we go back into the city to start the serious sightseeing so I'll be updating the website more often.... hope everyone is well I'll see you all in a couple of weeks! Em xxxxx