Plans

We are now a few days into the Australian leg of our journey and a plan is starting to form. We are staying with my mum's friend Chris who lives in Sydney and kindly offered to put us up in her house for a while. Sam thinks this is brilliant as Chris has birds and dogs (and lots of huntsmen - which I don't think is quite so brilliant but have managed not to look around to much just in case I see one).

Yesterday we went into Sydney and looked into buying/renting a van - we decided not to go with the juicy vans even though they are amazing as they were a bit too expensive however we have now picked up a high top van for the next three months - Will worked his Bristolian charm and negotiated us a great rate - so we now have wheels and a home when we need one. The next step is to try and extend our visa which is currently three months and we would like 4 so we will try and sort this out with Aussie immigration tomorrow. We have not really had a day in Sydney doing touristy things although we have seen the bridge and the opera house, i hope we will see an opera there but I had a wee (just to see the loos - which were suitable posh) just in case we didn't get back there. Hopefully we will do more touristy stuff tomorrow.

The weather has been fairly overcast since we arrived and right now we have rain - but that's alright as we are just sorting things out so don't need the sunshine. Tonight we are going to meet Will's friend Ferg for tea which should be fun.

All our love to our NZ friends and I hope that all your friends and family are ok following the earthquake.

Picture attached of Sam taken by Sam with his waterproof camera!