Well, here I am. Updating for the first time in a million years. Sorry about that delay, folks. And lack of pictures. I still have some to get developed though.

( its long, but hey, you love me, right? )

Ok, its pronounced young-gulla. Australia has weird names for everything. Anyway ( Read more... )

( from the weekend )

Maybe Australia needs more signs like the one in my icon. The first kangas that I've seen on this trip were dead ones. Australian roadkill. Sad ( Read more... )

So I've been here just over two weeks and I'm still occassionally thrown off guard by cars driving down the left side of the road. Just this weekend, I walked to Tanya's side of the car and then realized I had fouled up again. DOH ( Read more... )

Ah yes, a week later and I finally have the pictures on the computer, ready to update. These are all from last Saturday when Tanya took me to Finch Hatton Gorge. Fortunately, it was mild and drizzly so we didn't melt from humidity.

( finch hatton gorge )

Saturday...
-Finch Hatton Gorge
-beautiful waterfall
-jungle
-leeches
-meat pies
-Indigo Girls
-vodka

Sunday...
-the beach!
-the tide coming in... and getting soaked!
-stealing coconuts
-cooking smores in the house

PICTURES TOMORROW!

Oh! I forgot to mention the geckos that Tanya has living behind her computer. They're the size of Texas geckos but they chirp! Its cute! I named one of them Amigo. And while I was sitting here i saw that Amigo had a girlfriend, so I'm calling her Senorita (I'm just going to assume that its female). There was a tiny baby one upstairs too.

Yesterday Tanya took the day off and took me out for my first grocery store experience. So many different foods, and some that are the same, like Kit Kat bars, just different packaging. Other things are exactly the same, just with a different name. Like they call a cantaloupe a rockmelon. We got enough food to last us, and Tanya was really nice ( Read more... )

The countdown: 5 hours until my plane leaves Austin for LA. Holy shit ( Read more... )