sydney, the most amazing place in the world, aaaaaand what up 21!

last thursday, me and 3 of my friends, beth, tara and sam, left on a 12 hour overnight train ride. worst thing ever. there were wackadoos everywhere. it started off with a 30 minute bus trip to the train station where an extremely drunk and smelly man sat behind beth and i and asked us what language we were speaking and told us we had funny accents. he was kicked off the train when we got here and dropped his backpack and all the bottles in it broke, sad day for him. good thing he was gone though. we tried to sleep but that didn't work out. i kept waking up in a panic thinking my stuff had been stolen when i was sleeping luckily that was a negative. we got to sydney about 7am walked to our hostel put everything away and started off on our adventure to manly beach. we walked what felt like forever to circular quay where we took a ferry to manly. SOOOO PRETTY! the ferry was amazing it took as straight through the harbor and we had amazing views of the bridge, opera house and the gorgeous multi-million dollar homes, aka my future residence. all of us could not have been more excited to finally just get to the beach to lay down. after the beach did some shopping and got some sweeeet souvenirs and took the ferry back to circular quay. we walked up to the stairs of the opera house and took some great photos and looked really cool while taking them. not like tourists at all. after the opera house we walked ALLLL the way back to our hostel, the wake up, and made dinner, the usual pasta and sauce. =] after drinking quite possibly the worst goon ever and oh umm zero hours of sleep, we were somehow still alive to go out to kings cross in sydney. i hailed my first taxi and was really proud of myself, we even got a picture. we were definitely dead after kings cross and made it back to our room by 12. legit. saturday morning we walked to darling harbor, not as far as circular quay but still a journey. we went to the aquarium there and it was SICK. there were so many sea turtles tim, you would have loved it. i took some pics so i hope you enjoy those. =] and sharks too! but i really like the aquarium it was super cool. we walked around darling harbor and we ran into this zombie protest. freaking wackadoos. they were all dressed like zombies and warning us that zombies are real and will eventually attack us and that we need to be aware of their existence.... crazies. tim you also would have loved that so i took pictures of that too. aaaaaaaaaaand got the aussie zombie survival guide, sweet eh? so ill be bringing that too. we then took a train to olympic park where they had the 2000 summer olympics. everything was pretty dead there considering it was 10 years ago the place wasn't exactly poppin. but we got to see the track and pool then went up to the observatory in this hotel to see a view of the whole layout, it was really neat. after olympic park we took the train back to our hostel and decided to go out for a nice dinner in darling harbor. we got all bedazzled, not really, and walked back out to darling harbor and made reservations at this little cafe overlooking the harbor. while we were waiting for dinner we just sat around on the docks really upset that we had to wait 45 minutes. but somehow the entire weekend everything was perfect and would somehow go our way, and there was a firework show right in front of us. it was soooo legit! it lasted about 25 minutes and then all of a sudden it was time for dinner. sydney is perfect. i'm obsessed with everything. sunday morning andie flew in!!!!!! i walked to the train station to pick her up and we brought her stuff back to the hostel then the 5 of us took a bus to bondi beach. bondi is AMAZING! i loved it. it was extremely touristy but i still loved everything about it. all weekend we all kept saying how amazing our lives were and that everything was perfect. haha we all felt really gay but all of us definitely fell in love with sydney. we took the bus from bondi to circular quay to walk to the harbor bridge. this was my absolute favorite part. i'm obsessed with the view of the harbor with the opera house and bridge in the background. i could not stop taking pictures of everything and having them take pictures of me in every possible position and every possible angle. hi, i'm a lame tourist, and i loved every second of it. we walked baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack to our hostel it took days because we were exhausted but we got back, bought some passion pop along the way and made dinner at our hostel again and just went to the bar at our hostel and hung out there for the night. monday morning sam, tara and beth checked out and were flying home. andie and i walked to darling harbor to check out the wildlife park. it was super awesome. we saw all the usual animals, spiders, snakes, koalas kangaroos, and a legit crocodile! we watched them feed it a whole dead chicken and the crocodile went buck wild and flung it all around and the chicken guts flew everywhere. sweeeeeet. after the wildlife park andie and i got ready to take the manly ferry to go out to dinner on the other side of the harbor. ferry ride a night is even better than the day, i'm literally in love. we out at this really nice german restaurant right on the harbor, it was a cute little romantic date. =] we walked down the main street at manly beach and found this cute bar that was pretty much empty. the two bartenders convinced us to stay. two hours and an unnameable bar tab later, we ran to catch the last ferry back to circular quay and called it a night. love. love. love. we checked out the next morning and hung out in starbucks until our flight. we got back to good old lismore and started my birthday celebration! dinner at tommy's with everyone, steak of course. several amazing long islands and some shots bought by others turned me into what everyone around is referring to as a dancing machine. apparently the 21 year old in me loves dancing. who knew. and i'm really good according to the pictures. and i sweat a lot. but we already knew that. it was a suuper fun night and the whole next day andie and i watched friends and LOST. perfection.

beth, tara, aubrie, andie and i went to byron bay today and had a great day just hanging out on the beach. andie leaves tomorrow which sucks, but i also leave for the outback! at 4:45am... woooo. i can't believe i will be there for 8 days and no showering yuuuup. i'm super excited about that and cannot wait to sleep under the stars.


it's possible this has been the best week of my life and i have decided that everyone HAS to go to sydney at least once in their life. actually five times. once isn't enough. and you can all easily do that when i move there in my glorious mansion over looking sydney harbor. i'll have plenty of room for guests so no worries. you will fall in love with it so prepare to move there once you visit.

hope i survive the outback and happy easter =]