Heat

Have I mentioned ow much I love Bondi and Manly Beaches?  Because if I haven't, there's something wrong.  Both are great. Both are large and have a great surf and lots of sandy areas to spread a towel out on. The only real downsides I have with the beaches are that it takes awhile to get to them and they're popular, so there's lots of people at them. But they are still great and I enjoyed going to them and spending some time on each.

Today, I flew to Perth. You know how when you're checking the weather being going out and it's something a little different than the usual, and you're all, Oh that'll be fine!  Well, that was me. I was excited over what I was finding out what the weather was like in Perth and along the west coast. Don't get me wrong, I still am. This is great, to be experiencing such warm weather when I'm used to it being minus like forty.

Anyways, the pilot told us it was like 37 out, no biggie. I got lost, biggie.  I walked up a huge hill, biggie - going to King's Park, worth the hill... mostly.  I wenr back and chilled out by the pool, no biggie, it was great, actually.  Being in the water, even just my legs, really cooled me down - so much so that when I went back to my room, I was shivery because of the A/C. Hehehe. 

Anyways. That was boring. I'm going up the coast starting tomorrow for a week. There will be excitement.  And I have some ideas about what to for when I get back to Perth next week. Heh.

TTFN! Xxxx

Canada One Day, Australia the Next

Hi there!  I haven't yet written up my Five Weeks of travelling stories out, and maybe I never will, but for now, I've just arrived back in Australia - Sydney to be exact.

Let's start on Saturday, even though I didn't start travelling until Sunday. Saturday, Grandma called and we went out for Asian at a place called Asian - go figure!  Auntie Sue stopped by, so I got to see her, too. And that was nice. I showed Grandma when we went back to hers where the postcards I sent her were from in Australia and New Zealand.   Auntie Wendy also called, so I got to talk to her too.

Sunday. We went to the airport. And the lady asked to see my connections. And then, when she was on the phone, she explained how my flight to Toronto was delayed getting there, so it would be late leaving (about an hour, as it turned out).  Which meant missing my flight to Denver, and in turn, missing my flights to San Francisco and Sydney.  So it was a really good thing I booked my whole flight to Sydney together!  She ended up getting me on a flight to Vancouver and then direct from there to Sydney.  Thank you awesome Air Canada lady! You rock! 

The new flight meant that rather than having an hour in Toronto where I would have to get my checked bag and go through US Customs, I would have four hours if just waiting. And then I would get on a five hour flight to Vancouver, where I still wouldn't have to get my bag and go through customs. What I did gave to do, however, was as soon as I got off the plane, go see the guy at the counter, where he checked my documents.  With that already checked before boring the flight to Sydney, it would save time.  I had an extra long wait in Vancouver as the flight was a little less than an hour late (leaving at 12:25 instead of 11:45).

Anyways. You know how just before they start letting the passengers board the plane they call out passengers that they need to check stuff or whatever? And it's never your name they call?  Well, I was sitting there, waiting and listening to my music when my name was called. Of course I heard it because anytime they made an announcement, I made sure to listen.  I was called up because they wanted to get the coupon thing attached to my ticket because of my route/flight changes. Except, when I went to board, something must not have been punched in correctly, as he had to do a bit of an override to say that I had everything and could go on board. Haha, that backfired a bit.

Anyways. The flight was just less than fifteen hours.  In that time, I ate the dinner, watched any and every current movie that appealed to me (except one, as I haven't seen the first one yet, sooo), only not finishing one because we arrived. And I jumped because whenever an announcement was made, and you were watching something, you'd have sore eardrums because the volume was down so low to watch them and their announcement volume was really high (I jumped because I was really into my surfing movie and it was really calm and quite).

I also slept a lot. I'm kind of tired now, but my jetleg is not as bad as it was last time or it could have been.

So, I arrived around 11am, and then had to jump into the mile - no exaggeration necessary - long line for customs to enter Australia.  That probably at least half an hour.

And then it was on to Central, where I'm staying for the next two nights. Lucky for me, my room was ready when I arrived. And I was the first one I there. And I've stayed in that EXACT room before. Haha. So then it was off to the beach!

Manly is absolutely gorgeous! One of my favourite beaches. Anywhere. I'm currently catching some rays - don't worry, in the three hours I've been here, I've put on so.much sunscreen, I think I must be covered I a permanent sun barrier. Haha, just kidding. But I'm really oily now.

Oh yeah. Weather's like 25 and sunny. That's 50 degrees warmer than it was when I left home. Hehe! Yey! :D

Talk soon! Xxxx