Hello everyone! I think we'll be splitting this blog in to two parts: the Stephen part and the marginally inferior Leah part. Haha - I just got slapped!!! Now for the Stephen part - I want to wish everybody who has been leaving us messages a very merry Christmas and an exceptionally happy new year! Everybody else, I wish a mediocre Christmas and a slightly below par new year. God, I'm harsh! Seriously though, everybody have a good one! I'll leave you with the ...

G'day!! Just a quick one...we have finally arrived in Adelaide, staying with lovely Hazel and Jim. Great to be here! The Indian Pacific rail journey was not short it has to be said!! We left Perth Wednesday lunchtime to arrive in middle of nowhere Kalgoorlie late that night. We spent 3 nights there in the Golddust hostel checking out the cowboy-esque gold rush town with its HUGE mines, brothels and "skimpy" bars. (photos to follow). We then got ...