Very sad waking up this morning. It feels like we have done so much. Driving out of Perth seems like such a long time ago - kind of like a dream. We will take away some fantastic memories of our trip (about 3500 of them..) and it was great meeting some of our friends and family - Micheal, Patrick and Lou, Sinead and David. After meeting them all, my next favourite thing about the trip has to be the 3 days we spent on board Kiana in the Whitsundays/Great Barrier R...

Wow...what a day of food today! Our first task of the day was to walk up town to meet Alex, from Sinead/Davids apartment block for lunch. Alex used live in Galway with them for a few years. She brought us to a restaurant around the corner from her office called Mrs. Parmas. They are famous for their massive Chicken Parmagianas (basically a chicken fillet breadcrumbed). I had a chilli con carne parma which was delicious and came with Jalapenos. If I got knocked do...

Everyone got up this morning for a nice 7km run! We drove to Albert Park - home of the Australian Grand Prix for the run. We walked into Aquatic center also for a look, really cool area with lots of swimming/diving areas, basketball and table tennis facilities. We ran back to apartment for some breakfast before beginning the 2.5 hour journey to Philip Island. It was quite a horrible day, the rain spilled on us as we were driving down and when we got onto the Isl...

Had a bit of a sleep in today in Melbourne - we don't really have a great deal more to do in Melbourne so we were able to take it easy for the next few days. We walked into the city and got our underwater camera developed from Great Barrier Reef, The photos came out really well surprisingly and there was good visibility under water. We paid about 16 dollars to get photos put onto CD. I think the days of printing photos are nearly gone! We hopped on the free tour...

Had a little sleep in today for our last day in Sydney..we really enjoyed it - Patrick and Lou were certainly hosts with the most!!! Lou kindly dropped us to airport during "work" which saved us a lot of hassle getting through Sydney. We said our goodbyes - we'll them both again in April '12 when they get hitched :-) Flight back to Melkbourne was very short - just ove an hour. We hopped on the shuttle bus into Southern Cross station and had about a 25 minute walk...