Sydney - the Travelling begins!

Leaving Queenstown was a sad, sad day; not least because most of our mates turned up to a last day farewell lunch, but luckily we were in a true rush and left quickly before the blubbering got underway!

We caught up with Jero, Shanna and Tai in Christchhurch (who we used to live with before heading to Queenstown) which was cool, before flying up to Auckland the next morning. Luckily we saw Cynthia and Trev at Auckland airport, who'd just got back from their Asian mission (sans luggage - ha ha!) so got to say a proper good-bye to them too. We had to leave them the car, as some F'wit had said they'd buy it on the last night, but changed their mind in the morning - lesson learned - trust no-one!

SYDNEY ROCKS! It reminds me a lot of Hong Kong, but without the smog! There's loadsa shops, restaurants, bars etc.... but really nice beaches too (Manly, Bondi etc...). Bev and Chris came up from Camberra for the weekend too. It was great to see them, and of course we had a good old drinking sesh Friday and Saturday nights. Rach and Todd caught up with us Saturday too, so we all trundled around a few (too poncy) bars in the search of some real 'cheese', which we found about 2 a.m.!

We went over to the zoo yesterday, which is pretty cool, although being a roasting hot Sunday there were loadsa kids there.... GEEZUS... a flamethrower was needed to sort some of the screaming little bu$$ers out! The bird show was the highlight of the day and it looks like I got a few good photo's, so I'll try ad get them up on the blog at some stage.

Gutted my IPod's kicked the bucket after doing the latest (12-10-2005) update on the firmware - a warning for you 4th Gen 40gb ownders - don't do it! Was gonna store the photo's on that as I travel around, but looks like I'm gonna be paying over the odds at internet cafe's now!

Right, getting the 'get off the blody computer' line from Kat, so enough from me for now... more when we get to Thailand.