We're back travelling……………Wahoo. And in a sense we are starting the long journey home. We manage to throw a lot of stuff out and squeeze a lot of stuff into our backpacks, somehow?! We have a farewell meal with Orla and Cathal and a quick trip to the casino (practice for Vegas) and Maggie wins $20 from $1 not bad for her first time! We will miss Brisbane and our apartment very much, it was hard to say good bye. Our first stop is Cairns. We arrived ...

Soooo after finally updating the blog we did something at the weekend, we went to visit my Granddads cousin Kath and her husband Bryan, they live in Tewantin which is North of Brisbane and super close to the Sunshine Coast and Noosa. The area is national park and it's very pleasant on the eye. We have a tour of the area and take in the sights. We go kayaking and fishing, Bryan and I pump some Yabbies out of the sand to use as live bait. They look like prawns bu...

Mattie starts work on Monday but he doesn't really like it, at least he has a job though because I am still looking and it will pay for our room at the hostel. I keep looking for work and on Tuesday go to an interview for a door knocking job, not ideal but it's something, I get the job and start the training on Wednesday and by Friday I am out knocking on doors, by this time Mattie has quit the terrible sales job and is now looking for a new job. By Tuesday I h...

The next day we just go to the internet café and apply for lots of jobs in Brisbane with high hopes we will get a job for when we get there, we also book our tickets for the train, do some shopping and watch some movies at the hostel before bed. We get up and sort ourselves out for check out, then we go to the supermarket to get Mattie some passport photos for his ISIC card so we can get cheap train travel, whoo hoo! Then we go to the internet café again a...