Arrived in Sydney!

Who hoo, we have arrived in Sydney. It is so good to be here, already we are settling into the Australian way of life. The house we are renting is so lovely and it has a huge back garden. We haven't seen any spiders or snakes yet but I am sure we will.

Still trying to get our sleeping pattern sorted out, we woke up at 4am this morning and were wide awake. However, we did manage to get a couple more hours of shut eye and we were giggling away to ourselves thinking it would be funny to phone someone back home and wake them up.

It is the end of the winter here. However, the temp is 17 degrees here today and tomorrow it is supposed to be 21! So it is about as warm as our Scottish summer!! We are 9 hours ahead of you but when the summer comes in it will be about 11 hours ahead. (these are little facts we thought you may like to know)

Have started looking for jobs and I think we should be able to pick something up ok. Gav is going to go and do some labouring work for a couple of weeks so that should be good fun for him! We have also heard of a little car for sale so I think we will try and buy that in the next couple of weeks which will give us a little run around and will be good when we go and travel through Australia.

I haven't got our camera software working yet but when I do we will post some pics up! We have an amazing one of the sun rising when we are on the plane... it is beautiful.

By the way (Gav here) Just to say that the people we are living with are proper australians. Mick the bloke has a Ute and Lin his wife has a tattoo of Rolf Harris on her back. We also went to Lin's school for a kids presentation day and two of the presentations involved the kids singing rolf harris songs. I am happy now to leave australia as i think i have experienced all that is proper Oz.

ps/ (Jess again) he is joking about Lin's tattoo!

17 more sleeps to go!

Well time is marching on and we are busy getting organised for our trip! Gav is busy doing some D.I.Y and I am being a lady of leisure! No I am actually helping and I have been painting our windows and sorting out insurance and backpacks! Very exciting. Here is a picture of us being excited!!