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Sunday, June 03, 2007

I'm Back

well, it may only be momentarily.

the little old blog has fallen by the wayside.... there was crazy tokyo for a week, where matty and i rented a car and drove to mount fuji -very cool. and of course partied with louis....

then back to melbourne for an easter sunday arrival and a full on day for my poor little matty boy who got to meet almost the whole family in one sitting - including the 90-something year old great aunty who has quite the eye for young matthew.

after a month or so of welcome home socialisations and meeting friends and going to birthday parties, we decided we needed to pack up and head out if we were going to get anything done before we had to be in sydney for our housesitting gig. so we had another week of farewell socialisations and stocking up on camping gear, and then hit the road. we went kind of the long way. went south through geelong and along the great ocean road, stopping at mount gambier on our first night. we made it through adelaide on day 2 and stopped for the night at mt remarkable national park, just outside of port augusta. coober pedy was our next stop and i can tell you, if i never see another opal in my life it'll be too soon. what a dust bowl.

from coober pedy we made it up to curtin springs -80 k out from uluru and free camping. the next day was spent in uluru national park. matt climbed the rock and then we did the kata tjuta valley of the winds walk. spent a second night at curtin springs and up the next day to get out to kings canyon, walk it, and make it into alice that night.

we treated ourselves in alice and stayed in a hotel/motel place where we had our own little a-frame cabin with kitchenette and bathroom, and a brand new queen size bed. we went out to bo's saloon for dinner -it was the only pub style place still serving dinner at 9pm.... matt had the most enormous ribs i've ever seen, there was enough left over for a beef and beans brekky the next day.

from alice we focussed on getting up to darwin, stopping at tennant creek where we camped next to a mother and son who had just driven 24 hours straight from queensland on their first ever camping trip and then needed two people to help them put up their 9-person "it looked much smaller in the shop" tent..... some people.

next stop katherine. we probably could have made it through to darwin in one go, but we figured we might as well stop off. camped in a lovely caravan park where we got up in the morning and went for a swim in the natural hot springs down the back of the park.

so we arrived in darwin on thursday afternoon, having left melbourne on the previous wednesday. not bad time. now we've been in darwin for a week and a half and i have managed to get a job -starting tomorrow night- waitressing in a very fancy restaurant. we're still trying to find somewhere to live, and are even trying to get jobs in a resort out of town where we can live on site cheaply and not spend too much money on other stuff.

so, hopefully tomorrow will bring us good news - either a house or jobs or both.... fingers crossed!

1 Comments:

Blogger JoeyJoJo said...

Yay, yay, yay & yay...We are glad you're back in Blogland.
Sounds like life is good. Let's hope it gets even better (& the restaurant is bloody well airconditioned).
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