Day 35: 4/2/13 This morning we were spoiled as we didnt have to leave until 9 which meant we could get Up after sunrise!! It was the first morning in a week we got up in daylight!! We had a very lazy morning and the guide cooked pancakes for us and there was plenty of Nutella for them too! We didn't leave until closer to 10 so we had time to swap email addresses and names for Facebook aswell. I forgot to say yesterday that there is a movie being filmed in the a...

Day 34: 3/2/13 We had a sleep in this morning- we didn't leave until 7- yippee!! Anything after 5 is a sleep in at the moment We went noodling this morning. When they are mining, they have a blower machine that sucks out the rubble created by the explosions. There could be bits of opal in this rubble, but the miners are looking for big sections of opal and aren't interested in this. So noodling is when you root through the piles of sand and rocks looking for op...

Day 33: 2/2/13 Today we left at 5:45 to head on an 800km journey to Coober Pedy. That's a crazy length to be driving!! Dan, the driver/guide, wasn't looking forward to it and wanted people that weren't going to sleep to sit up the front and entertain him. Ellinor, one of the Swedes, and I sat in the front seats as neither of us sleep in a bus. We chatted, played 20q, had a quiz, listened to music- basically had to try and keep him entertained. He gets annoyed pr...