EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKK! Ok so have I got all of your attention?? TODAY I JUMPED OUT OF A PLANE! ARGH! AT 15,000 FT IT WAS SO FUN! I cant believe I done it! We nearly didn't, but not because of us but because of the bloody weather our first attempt yesterday was cancelled! We travelled down from Rotorua to Taupo yesterday planning to do our jump today but were convinced by our driver to do the dive as we arrived as the weather was going...

So we finally left Oz after three whole months travelling the East Coast and partying and working in Sydney. But we couldn't leave before having a surf lesson and we couldn't have picked a better day for it. We had beautiful sunshine and non-scary waves! The lesson was 2 hours long and we only had a small group of four which made it easier to get help from our instructor, Lawrence. First things first we got into our wetsuits and it was down to the shore to do ...

So its now coming to our last week in Sydney and in Australia! We leave for Aukland next friday 28th and so its back to the backpacker life of living in crummy dorms and being woken up at the crack of dawn! Ah well, we can be just as loud when we want to be! Last weekend I went snowboarding in the snowy Valley of Thredbo, which was so much fun. I made some new friends there, used muscles I never knew I had and covered myself in a few nice bruises! I was picked ...

So things seem to be picking up in what we thought was going to be a cold and miserable Sydney as we had to look for work. As it happens though the rain stopped this week (after causing us endless amounts of grief last week with smelly damp coming through the walls of our hostel) and the sun is shining, we both found jobs AND most of all we have moved into a flat. Its costing us the same price as we were paying for smelly damp dorms, over looks Darling Harbor and...

Today I was the most scared I have ever been. I have this fear of drowning and for years have chickened out of diving, snorkeling i can just bear, but today I went diving on the Great Barrier Reef and actually got all the way to the bottom of the sea (only about 10 meters down but still, I was scared). Getting down was the hardest part, I've never breathed so fast in all my life and then we had to some practice things to make sure if the valve fell out of our mou...