Guro and Caroline Blog

Llife in luxory

The title describes our last week very well...
In Bangkok we headed straight for our hotel and checked into our room with a kingsize bed. Fantastic!! Had room service breakfast and a long sleep :)Then managed to leave the room for a quick dip in the jacuzzi before drinks in the bar and dinner. Not bad this backpacker life!
Got ourselves to the airport in good time (5 hours before the flight) the next morning, which turned out to be a very ggod thing!!! Had been told to go to the Qantas office to get our tickets, but Caroline spent 3 hours looking for it, before we gave up... The people at the counter decided to let us on anyway, with our tickets for the 5th of dec...
Was very excited until we realised that we were next to the drunk scot. Oh well, 8 hours and not very much sleep later, we landed safely in sydney - bright and sunny Oz waiting at the doors!!!
Apart from the fact that it was raining. And cold. And we couldn;t get any money. Luckily with the new time difference, the Norwegian parents were still up and could fix the empty account :), and by the time the Derby parents arrived in Sydney, the weather had cleared and all seemed much brighter!
Got a taxi to parents hotel via our youth hostel (Great Aussie Backpackers - recommended by us now) and started the splurge, all sponsored by the Neales. In short have had many fantastic meals on the Rocks and Circular Quay, harbour cruises, bus tours, watching video og Tatty and Neale christmas, aquarium, Bondi beach trip + walk to Bronte, drinks in the fancy Four Season lobby and a lovely walk in the Botanic Gardens (bat and eel watching!) - thank you very very much mum and dad Neale!
On saturday we went to see Figaro at the Sydney Opera house - thank you very very much sister Neale! Was very cool, funny story and not to hard core for opera beginners. Also got to climb the harbour bridge - thank you very very much brother Neale! Were group no 18 to do the new explorer walk, goes inside the bridge, then up. Very cool!
And we have met friends again! Norlene and Jason were in Sydney til 6am saturday, so finally caught up with them friday night. Kept them out til midnight, so they just had time to clean their friends flat before they headed to Tasmania!
We are now left to fend for ourselves again. Next big step is buying a car! - Thank you very very much for sponsorship parents Hollund Otteren. A guy in the hostel is apparently a mechanic, so we are trying to convince him to come with us as we don't know up from down on 4 wheelers. Am sure we will only meet good natured people that will not try to take our money! Aussie are not like that are they Michelle?

Will let you know all details of the car buying when it is overwith. Now heading for the bottleshop and then to the hostel to make dinner! All by ourselves! So so so excited.
Whilst thanking for christmas presents, thank you very very much to brother Otteren for fixing this page and adding photos and posting blogs and being great! And thanks Fudge for the game! Will try it out with dinner and pink wine later tonight. And obvioulsy M&M for sarongs and geckos and picture - now on our table in our room for all to see!
Love you all!
G&C

posted by Guro @ 09:18