first of all sooooooory!!! we have been a bit slack mainly because it is more expensive here than asia and we have been super busy!!! will not bore you with a long blog but the east coast has been great fun- fraser island and whitsundays were greeat(see the phots albums they speak for themselves!!!)

made our way down to sydney for the 22nd and met up with my friend laura and her mate which has been so much fun and made a christmas away from home bearable!!! they do not celebrate it like we do and in the sun it just feels wrong!!! have exploed the city together beaches, opera house, gardens, harbour etc it is a great city and we will post some photos soon. christmas day we had a picnic on bondi beach which was cool but it was cloudy!!! boxing day was sunny though so we had some beers in the sun!!!

off on an over night bus to melbourne tonight, we have 1 week there so are trying to do the great ocean road which should be great.

hope you are all ok

lots of love loll and rich

ps we got kissed by seals and dolphins the other day--very cool except for the fishy smell!!!!