Australia's Newest Beach Bums??

Finally it's my turn to write something. Nate likes to take the reigns and think this is "his" blog. Anyway - We're finally out of Sydney's inner city!! You all don't know how great that feels. I can almost compare it to sleeping a night at the Barry back home. Ya - not so great. We've moved along to Manly Beach. Much nicer here. The ocean is approximately 80 m from our room. Are you all jealous yet?? I would be if I were you. Haha. It was quite the experience moving over here though. We have to cross the harbour so it's approximately a 1/2 hour ferry ride each way. We also had to take the subway to King's Cross since we weren't about to trek the 4-5 km on foot with our 30lb bags strapped to our backs. Anyway - taking the subway to our hostel in King's Cross was easy... but we got a little lost on our way back to the ferry. Thinking I know it all, I said that we needed to get on the same train as we took the first time. Umm, no. We luckily got off when we realized we were completely going in the wrong direction. It was pitch black outside and here were are stuck in China Town!! Creepyville!! There was some strange music coming from gawd knows where so I was in a bit of a panic. Luckily we got off approximately 10 minutes before the very last train to Circle Quay (where the ferries are) left. What would we have done if we missed it?? I don't even want to know!!

Regardless of all that... we finally made it to Manly Beach safe and sound. It took approximately 4 hours to get from Manly Beach to King's Cross (to get our bags) back to Manly Beach. I'm glad that trek is done. We just booked in for the next week at Manly Backpacker Beachouse. Seems to be a nice little place. So far Nate and I are the only ones in our room. There's a bed for one more person but hopefully it stays vacant. We were at Boardriders Beachouse the past 2 nights. Last night some retard decided it would be quite funny to play with the fire extinguisher so somewhere around 12am the fire alarm went off. I wasn't really sure what it was because it sounds nothing like the ones do back home. Half awake I asked Nate what was going on and he said it was the fire alarm and we had to leave the room. For some reason I thought he was blaming me for the stupid alarm going off so I was a bit cranky with him. Haha. He had to pop a "Grouch Pill" into my water.

So now here we are ready to relax and do whatever we want for the next week. I think we're going to start looking for a flat when Saturday's paper comes out. That way it might feel a bit more like 'home' to us (a new one of course).

Take care all - we're missing you like crazy.