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I will start of by saying, Corrrrrr, Its blooming Hot!!! We have now reached summer I would say, and sometimes I think, I am so looking forward to getting into work, just to be under some air con!!
So we have past the half way mark of our trip now, and I have mixed feelings about it, I know Luke is not at all ready to come home and get cold, but I do miss it.... But again cant imagine not being here.... So it is going to be a toughy leaving Aus!
So for Luke, his assignment finished at his job, but he impressed them enough for them to keep him on there doing something else... its day one of it today, so well see. And as for me, I am temping now, so one week im working in one place, the next im somewhere else, and the odd day before assignments start in sat in the park sunning myself! So Since leaving the job I really enjoyed in Accounts, I have worked for Colgate, just covering their switchboard whilst the telephinist attended a funeral, This job was easy, I spent the day on the internet chatting to friends, then every so often I would be broken off to answer the telephone. So That was for one day, but they want me back in December for a few weeks so im looking forward to putting my feet up again! Then I went to an investment firm, I worked there for just over a week, ringing clients just to make sure they had received their offer to invest in more shares at a discount... and if there were any questions... This was Easy as... Until they started asking questions.... it was as though someone was speaking foreign to me, with words I NEVER used, or even knew existed..... so my response "Oh I will get someone to call you back to discuss your concerns....."
So work is work, It digs into alot of the sunbathing time, but it does fund the overall cost of the sunbathing time!
On our weekends we try to get out as much as possible. A couple of weekends ago we had a house family BBQ, but it rained..... (just my luck as usual) so the BBQ food was served through the window to us sitting on the inside!! But then the following week we all went to Karaoke...... The only place in Sydney which hosts Karaoke & we were there!! Sydney has heaps of karaoke booth bars, where you spend $100's per hour for you and your friends to have a private booth - but we wanted an audience (plus we didnt want to have to pay to sing!) so off we trotted.... I sang (of course) and I sang well (YES REALLY) I had practiced 'Copa Cabana' all evening before, so I knew the words & had even thought up some moves to get the audience on my side!!
It was brill.... but the only problem was that the DJ wouldnt let me go back to sing another song!....
What else have we done?We have spent countless hours in the sun... but we arent haf as bad as our English Housemate... he is a lobster every saturday wthout fail... the first time he burnt he said "ah well it will turn brown"... It didnt, the next time he said he "forgot" the sun screan, then this weekend just gone "I put factor 15 on before i left the house..... I use factor 4 when i go to Portugal" .... No idea of the hole in the o-zone layer or the strength... Fool! Mum, you may think im silly with the sun, but i keep on topping up the sun cream, and have shade breaks... so dont worry... Plus my Polish housemate demanded I used no less than factor 30 - so bought me some!! Nice.
We hired a car at the weekend and went on a journey!! Thank you SatNav! Some clever fool had set the sat nav to "longest/scenic route" "avoid motorways or major road" yes... We set off from Pyrmont just after 9am, fo head north to Gosford, which is a 45 minute journey.... 1 hour and a half later at 11.30 we were still West of Pyrmont on Paramatta road.... We twigged on what had happened and fixed it then got on our journey...So i think we hae been up, down and across every road in sydney now... In Gosford is the Reptile Park, I knew from the offset that this wasnt going to be enjoyable... I hate all reptiles!!! But since being here Luke has found an infactuation with snakes!! Its me or the snakes in affraid!!
Whilst we were in line waiting to basically pour our money down the drain (pay the entrance fee) this baby croc came to see it - is was being held by a staff member, and for some reason i went to stroke its nose... and he got his teeth out, and again unknown why... I went to touch its tooth - I got told off!! I dont know what I was thinking? It was pretty cute though....
So we went and they were offering people to hold Pythons, stand next to a koala or a wombat or to fee kangaroos... all te above we have done, except the python - for good reasons!! So Luke jumped at the chance, I would not stand with him whlst he waited, It was traumatic for me, and could barely hold the camera still to take the pics, the ugly thing!! (the snake... not Lukey!)
Luke said it tightened its body around his neck a little and that it licked his arm... I would have said it was the biggest snake ive ever seen, well it was at this point, then about 10 minutes later we saw this HUMONGUS snake, it seriously was as wide as my left shoulder is away from my right shoulder, and it was all coiled up, and it was as high as the floor to your knee if not higher... There is a picture of it in 'sydney weekends' but its hard to tell... even with Luke stood next to it!
We watched the Aligators being fed too, they only feed them twice a week in the cooler months, because its harder for the Aligators to digest their food, so they feed them on Saturdays & Sundays (to suit the peak visiting times), Oh and not forgetting School Holidays and Public Holidays, they get fed then too!! so for a couple of weeks at a time theyre fed daily... Dont actually think this is very humane! its just a tourist attraction!
After the fun as had at the reptile park, we started our descent on Sydney.. Via Palm Beach AKA Summer Bay - (Home and away)I dont even watch the show - but still new about it... so we went, it was a beautiful day & the temperature reached 32 degrees, so it was nice having the sea breeze on us, so we soaked up the sun for an hour or so before coming home... and over the Harbour Bridge.... Zoom Zoom!! Oh and another Toll we went through without paying, so have had to TRY and pay online, but not sure what ive done...
That night we were tired but it didnt stop us cracking open the wine, and watching Machete, the new film thats out.... We eventually got to sleep at 2am, and were up again by 8am to go for an early trip to the Blue Mountains...
The Blue Mountains, There not actually Blue, and theyre hardly mountains! Its just a load of hills ( I would say all around NSW) with lots of trees on them, And the trees are actually Green.. But they have a blue haze over them from I think the Eucalyptus.... So we went there, went on the sky rail, which takes you over the canyon to the side where the three sister peaks are, then we were as good as stranded. We didnt want to venture too far our off the beaten track because that it where the Funel web spiders live & a friend of mine got Scabies so we were less adventurous, then got the sky rail back and headed home, It has been nice having a car, we did our food shop - and didnt have to carry back our bags, we put them in the boot.... We could do odd errands and not be an issue.. And it got us places (obviously)
So were taking it easy again for the next few weeks, going to get BBQ'ing at all opportunities and loving the Aussie beers and wine, and then will be working it off with Zumba! Its a dance exercise from Brazi i think, and its ace - its just like dancing in your bedroom with a hairbrush.... like noones looking!! But its held in a studio in the gym, so people are looking!! Its great fun, and I must sweat my body weight each time I go.... so it makes more room for BBQ & beer!!!
So again, thats it from me.
I do have 1 interesting fact which I have learned from having a French Friend: Wheres Wally - Its known as Wheres Charlie.. In France!! Interesting.... Im sure it will pop up in a Quiz at some point in your life... Good Luck!
Lots of love from J & L xxxxxx
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