Time to start savin my moolah...

I can not believe that i have been here for almost 6 months!!! CRAZZZY!!!! Time has just flown by, working soo much and staying out wayyy to late...Owell its been a fun ride so far!
Xmas turned out to be pretty alright (sorry jess and friends whom i drunkenly woke up at 5 and 7 !!(hahaha)I went out with my friend Ashley on Christmas eve, which is a very popular thing to do here as the pub we went to had about 1200 people there!The police even had to gate off the streets! But being xmas it closed at 1, so we were in bed nice and early, nice for a change!
The next morning I woke up to nothing christmasy, no tree, no stockings, no presents...owell we drank a cup of tea and listened to Christmas carols on the radio.
I hung out with Ashley till around noon then went to met Kevin at his hostel. I gave him his presents and we hung out till we decided to go find somewhere to eat. We wandered aimlessly for quite awhile then one of us (I do believe it was me) came up with the brilliant idea to go down and check out if anything was open down around the harbour, so we headed down there and it was packed with people. So for our Christmas day dinner Kevin has a steak and I had a burger...haha a little dif then a turkey dinner, but it was good!
So after that we headed back to the hostel and pretty much fell asleep on the couch's for a few hours. We woke up around 730 I think and the first thing Kevin said was "want some wine" haha so that started our long night of drinking goon!
So the next day was pretty much a write off as we slept all day, then Kevin had to work at 7, so I went to see a movie, The Prestige, which was pretty good. Then after 3 long nice days off I returned home to the crazziness, no it wasnt that bad...
All in all it was a great xmas, but it will be nice to get back to a snowy one at some point.
My plans for new years are to go see the fire works from the bridge, which should be good, check out the link for more info on it...
http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/nye/default.html
As for saving my money, I really only have about 3 more weeks with the Galpers here in Sydney, then hopefully (the plan keeps on changing I know) but hopefully me and kev will have found a car by then, and we will leave Sydney around Feb 1st! The plan is to head down to Canberra and hang with Kevins friend for a couple days, then head 6 hours west (inland) to a town called Mulldura. We plan on staying there for a month or so fruit picking and saving more dollars for the rest of our trip...Kevin i think we should enter you in as many competions we can find ( I get 50 % profit, being your booky!!)
Well thats where I stand as of whatever day it is today!
Luv ya guys
Shawna

Happy HOHO

well merry xmas to everyone , hope you have a white one! (even you guys down in the south!) I deffinatly will NOT be , probally rain though...its pretty funny that people hear still sing all the same xmas songs, like let it snow and frosty the Snow man hahaha weirdo's!! So it doesnt really feel like xmas at all, but ive got a couple friends to spend the few days with, so it will be nice..and i just recently talked to some old friends from home, so that was nice !!

I had my first "Date" in sydney last night, with an english guy...it was pretty fun and i got home early and had a great sleep!

today im going up to north sydney to meet my friend ashley, then kevin will prob come meet us later.

So ya thats my xmas down unda! Thank-you SOOO much to everyone who sent me xmas cards, its very nice to hear from loved ones as much as possible!

Well like i said merry xmas and have a fun new years (lay off the booze mom!) haha

luv ya

Shawna

Im goin travelin with this guy???haha

Haha so this is my friend Kevin, the one I'm gunna be traveling around oz with (yikes)!! Kevin is also from Calgary, I met him about a month before coming to australia. We are planning on buying a car and touring around. We're both pretty low on cash, so were gunna spend some time fruit picking (which Im actually looking foward to)! I think I know him pretty well, but if you dont hear from me for over a month at least you've got his picture to give to the coppers!!haha no its all good, we are going to have a craaazy adventure( starting in Feb) and I will be sure to keep you updated as much as possible...

Thats all for now

Cheers!

Tobys bday

Theses are some pics from tobys 3rd bday on the 14th!

Doesn't even compare!

The Zoo is what Im am talking about, sydneys Tangora Zoo is absolutley breathtaking! First of all you take the ferry over, so you pass by the bridge and the opera house...then you arrive at this gorgeous green hillside, where everyone unloads and walks up to where theres a gondaola to take you up to the top. The ride up itself is worth the 22 bux or whatever it is! You get to go right over the zoo and see most of the animals from the above view, if your luckey one of the gorillas may wave haha! So you unload at the top and start your trek down. The one thing that I found difficult about it (other then keeping toby in my sights) is where to go to see what, its not labeled or designed quite good enough, youve got to double back at least once if your gunna see everything, but belive me its soo big you may wanna take 2 dayz!

The view from the many view points its so beautiful!Like I said the walk down takes pretty long, especially if you wanna stop and look at the animals, which toby's not to interested in yet.. So ya give yourself at least 3 hours to make it back down to the ferry dock! I saw my first platypus...very cool lookin!Well thats about it, feel free to add comments, its always nice to hear from my homes....

talk to ya later

Blue Mnts cont.

allright, sorry about that folks! anyways where was I.. o ya i was laughing at how small the waterfall was... but the hike through the rainforedt was nice! Alot like Vancouver (temperate rainforest).

After checking out the waterfall we hiked back up for luch, which was aight, then hopped back on the bus to go check out the 3 sisters in Katoomba.

Katoomba is a very cute little touristy town, really reminds me of winfield...very peacefull compared to the city.

THe statues represent the aboriginal story behind the 3 sisters. The father was a magician and he had a magic kangaroo shin bone. One day the family were down on the rainforest floor when the father decided to do some hunting, he told his daughters to wait up on the hill quietly so they wouldn't wake the great beast that lived down there. So as the father was hunting he noticed that the girls were being very noisy up on the hill and suddenly the beast came out of the forest and was headed towards his daughters.The dad used his magic kangaroo shin bone to turn his daughters into stone so the beast couldnt hurt them...the beast got mad and went after the dad... he used his magic shin bone to turn himself into a parrot, but in doing so he dropped the shin bone, and that is why his daughters are still stone...or it was evelution...take your pick!

After getting some nice shots (i came back at sunset to get more) we headed down to senic world, which is a touristy type attraction.http://www.scenicworld.com.au/attractions_railway.asp Check out this link if ya wanna know more...

We walked down 1067 steps, and they were steeep im surprized i made it out alive..haha

well after we rode the train back up (thank god) we headed to the hostel, where the bus dropped us off and we all checked into the beautifull hostel. I didnt get a pic of it but it was reallly nice!! After that I unpacked all my stuff and took alittle walk around to see wat katoomba was all about. At aboput 7 i headed back down to the 3 sister look out to catch the sunset( about 20 min walk) Durring my walk home i went past a house that had a few people my age outside drinking some wine, so i stopped a poked my head over the fence to ask them wat there was to do in this town at night...Thats when i got my face almost licked off by their 4 dogs..awwwww charlie.....anyways so they invited me to have supper with them, which was gourmt garlic prawns!!!mmmmmm, so i stayed there and hung out drinkin some wine with them untilll about 1 am!Then headed back to the hostel!! I slept in on sun!!! whhich i needed !! then just toured around some more, the bus picked us up at 5 and i was back in the city by 7!

thats all for now

later

The Blue Mnts

Well I had a very nice and relaxing weekend out in the Blue Mountains. This is a shot from one of the look-outs! Unfortunatley it was really smokey out there because theres a huge bush fire burning..

My day started off nice and early as I causght the bus at 6 so i could be in the city by 7 to get on the tour bus. So I made it there and loaded up with about 9 others and started out trip outta the city. We drove for about 45 mins to the Blue Mountains National Park, which has wild kanagroos wandering all about!! My first experience with wild (well very tame) kangaroos was pretty cool!

This is a momma roo, with her joey in her pouch! Their enjoyin a nice grass breakfast!

And heres some others!

I watched this little guy climb right on into mammas pouch!

After the national park we loaded back up on the bus and drove another 40 mins to Wentworth Falls, which was a really nice hike down through a rain forest, butt I was quite dissapointed with the waterfall...compared to some of the falls ive seen up in the rockies this was nothin!! try and see if you can even spot it!!

These are some from our hike to wentworth falls.

Thats all for now, have to work Ill finish this up later!