Well, I know it has been a while since our last post, but nothing exciting has happened until the last couple of weeks.

I quit my job at the pizza place, I worked there for about 10 weeks, but it was time to move on.

We spent 10 glorious days in Bali, Indonesia. Trev's mom and her friend were doing a tour of Asia, so we met them in Bali. It was an incredible experience, nothing either Trev or I have done before. We spent a lot of time out in the sun working on our tans, since they faded while in Adelaide. We did a couple of cultural tours with Trev's mom. We went to some Hindu temples and saw the locals worshipping. We saw two different traditional dances - one was the story of the battle between good and evil, the other was their version of Romeo & Juliet. The female dancers wiggle their fingers and move their eyes back and forth, it's almost creepy. One night for dinner, we watched a dance and then they made us dance as well, Cheryl's (Trev's mom) boyfriend was a great dancer!

On one of the tours we got to see their largest mountain, Mt. Batur. We also got to do a bit of shopping on the tours. I got two really nice rings, they are hand made, we got to watch the girls at work. We also got to see some stone carving, wood carving and Batik art.

When Cheryl and Bob left, we still had a couple of days on our own. We spent most of our time relaxing by the pool or in town shopping. The Balinese people are very friendly, but also very pushy! We couldn't even watch the sunset on the beach without being bombarded by peddlars trying to sell us something - and they sold everything!

When we got back from Bali, we started to get things together to start travelling again. We got all pakced up and in the van and ready to go and the van wouldn't start. Just our Luck! The battery ended up being totally dead and the alternator was shot as well. So $300 later we were finally ready to go. We didn't end up leaving Adelaide until Sat morning. We decided to skip the West coast and head straight up the centre, before it gets too hot in the desert.

We drove about 500km to the Flinders Ranges. We didn't know what to expect, but what we saw was spectacular. We stayed in the area of Wilpena Pound, which is totally surrounded by mountain ranges. We did a few walks around the pound, one walk was over 21km and took us about 7hours. There was an older man who wanted to do the walk as well, but his wife wouldn't go with him, but also didn't want him to go by himself, so we invited him to come along with us. Dave, was his name, was a really nice guy. He is from Tasmania, he was an abundance of information on the different plant and animal life we saw, so we got to learn a bit as we walked.

We spent four days at Wilpena Pound and then moved on to Mt. Remarkable. We did another walk there through the Alligator Gorge - no alligators present - phew! It was a beautiful walk through the gorge, the walls of the gorge just towered over us.

The next few days weren't too exciting. We were headed to Coober Pedy - the Opal Mining capital of the world. We stopped one night on the side of the road, and there were a few other people there. We met one group that was travelling in a converted bus - complete with toilet and shower - and they called it camping! They were really nice. They fed us a BBQ dinner and some drinks around the fire afterwards - super nice people!

In Coober Pedy we did the usual touristy things. Because of the heat in the desert there, most of the locals build there homes underground. We did a tour of an old opal mine and there was also an underground house that we got to view. We went to this old guys house - known as Crocodile Harry's. He dug his house out of the ground and the walls and floors are completely covered in art and messages from travellers who have visited his place. The walls were so full, we only got to sign the guestbook.

On our way out of Coober Pedy we took a detour to see The Breakaways. They are a small range offering a spectacular view of the vast desert. We could see so far, and that's what we had to drive through for the next couple of days. The desert isn't quite what I imagined though, it's not just a bunch of sand forever, there's actually some small trees and bushes - though it is dusty! I guess they had some rain recently too, because the wild flowers are out in full bloom. It's really beautiful to see the field of flowers as we drive (or walk) around.

Our next destination was the 'Centre'. Ayers Rock/Uluru, the Australian icon - the big rock in the middle of the country in the middle of the desert. We spent 2 days there. The first day we visited the cultural centre and learned about the Aboriginal culture of the rock. We also ate some local bush tucker - honey ants and funny enough they taste like honey. Then we climbed the rock. It is so steep at the start that there are poles and a chain to hold on to as you go up and down. Once at the top, we continued along the rock for about 1.5km to the centre of it. The view was amazing. The way down was much easier than the climb up. However, it's about 5 days later and Trev's legs are still sore.

Some facts about Uluru - it is about 800km above sea level, 300km about the ground and 9.4 in circumfrance - it's one helluva rock!

That evening we watched the amazing colour display on the rock as the sun set. The rock turns an incredible shade of red before the shadows take over. We got up bright and early to watch the sunrise the next morning. The colour show was the same idea, but still spectacular.

In the morning we did the base walk around Uluru, the 9.4km walk. Then we went down the road to see the less popular Olgas/Kata-Tjuta. They are a bunch of clumps of rocks all together. Pretty cool. We did a couple of short walks there, then watched the sunset around them. It really is amazing how the rocks change colour.

Our next stop was King's Canyon. Also less popular, but I think most amazing. We did the 6km Rim walk around the top of the Canyon. It was just so incredible. The view into the gorge was just full of wild and indigenous plants. There was one part called the Garden of Eden, and aptly named. We walked through the plush plant life to a small waterhole.

We are now in Alice Springs, the main town in the Centre of Australia. We will be here for another couple of days, then we are off towards the nothern part of the country - Darwin.

Hope this satisfies your curiosity. We have been getting messages that people want to know what is going on. We have some pictures of Bali up on the website, but I don't know when we will be able to get more Australia pictures up.

Hope everyone is doing well. We miss you all - but not enough to come home any time soon :)

I didn't realize it has been so long since we last updated our site. We are still in Adelaide and haven't really done any touristy stuff. Since our last post we celebrated our 6th anniversary together and Trev's 25th birthday.

A couple of weeks ago we took a weekend trip to Yorke's Penninsula. It was a beautiful drive and we stayed in Innes National Park. It's this huge park right on the ocean and there are a number of scenic routes and views. It was really quite incredible. We saw wild Kangaroos hopping around the campsites and wild emus roaming along side the road. One of the tourist attractions was an abandonded little town. Most of the houses and stores were still standing, but barely. You could even rent out one of the houses to stay in if you wanted, but we just stayed in our van.

For Trev's birthday we went go-karting. It was lots of fun, even though I wasn't very good. Trev (and everyone else) lapped me a couple of times, and I crashed twice. After, we went out to dinner and then to a drive-in movie. On the weekend we celebrated by each attempting to drink 25 drinks in honour of Trevor's 25 years. Dan made it to 25 before we even got to the bars, he had to head home early. Trev and our new friend Benny made it to 25 by the end of the night, and I wasn't even close. All in all it was a good night though, but the next day wasn't too productive.

About 3 weeks ago Trev and I went on a wine tour with one of the girls we met on our first sailing trip. It was organized by one of the University committees, so it was a bunch of 20somethings getting drunk for free. We were at the first winery before noon and we tasted about 7 or 8 different wines. We were well on our way to a good day. We tasted a lot of good wine that day and purchased a few bottles and made some new friends. We invited them back to Dan's house and had some more wine and pizza before heading out to go dancing.

So, that's pretty much what we have been doing in Adelaide - drinking! We've made some really good friends too. And, we have been working. Dan got Trev hooked up programming some sort of porgrame for the University making some good money. I finally got a job working at a pizza place. It's not my ideal job, but I get paid cash and I get quite a few hours. The only problem is, I have to work nights and weekends, so no more partying for me.

We plan to stay in Adelaide for another couple of weeks, maybe to the end of July then move on to Perth I think. Oddly enough, Dan likes having us around so we can stay there as long as we need to. We should be getting some new photos up on the website soon too, shots from Trev's party and after the wine tour.

In three weeks we have discovered that Kangaroos really are road kill, the weathermen here are just as bad as back home, the "dangerous" animals are rarely seen, possums don't actually sleep upside down and the toilets do actually flush the wrong way.

In Sydney we spent a day at the zoo and got to see all those dangerous animals, but from a safe distance and behind glass. The zoo is set up so you actually get to walk around and pet the kangaroos though and little lizards scurry across the path infront of you.

Glen's fiance, Julia set up a cruise of the harbour for us. We spent two gorgeous hours cruising around and looking at all the incredible houses. I still can't believe how much money some people have.

We spent a day at Bondi Beach, where it's acceptable for women to go topless. Trev had a great time. He even took a few photos - you have to zoom in to see them though.

we spent a coulple of days scouring the city for a car. We found this car market in a parking garage in town. It was such a wierd set up. But really well run. There were a bunch of backpackers and their cars lined up and they were all trying to sell their car to us. We ended up purchasing and 1988 Toyota Hiace (a van) with a bed in the back and everything. It came with all the camping gear we could need and even snorkeling equipment and a boogy board.

We took off right the day we got the car. We drove to Wollongong for the night and then went on our way to Canberra, the National Capitol. We spent a day in Canberra and checked out the museaums and the parliament buildings and stuff. They have a beautiful walk that goes around this little lake and takes in most of the sights.

We were then off to Adelaide - 1200 kms West. It took two days driving to get here. We stopped for the night at a free camp place on the side of the road. Sketchy!!! The toilets were just holes in the ground and covered in spiders. I refused to use them. We headed straight to the nearest toilets in the morning.

We made it to Adelaide late afternoon on Friday. We went to Trev's cousin Dan's place and got cleaned up and met him and his friends for a night on the town. Sat he took us out on a sailboat. There was about 9 of us on the boat, and the weather was perfect. We got some sun, swam in the middle of the ocean and I got to climb the mast (I actually wore a harness and was hoisted).

We took it easy on Sun and most of the week. We spent a day walking around Morialta park. There were supposed to be 3 waterfalls, but they were all dry. It was a nice walk though.

Another day, we went to Cleland Wildlife Park and saw some more Native animals. Lots of kangaroos. I even pet one. It was an albino with a baby in it's puch - so cool! trev tried to pet a big Red Kangaroo, but he didn't like him.

I also got to hold a Koala bear. They let you hold the koalas and they hug you like a baby. It was soooo cool. It dug it's claws into my back though.

We spent a day in Victor Harbour. We did an evening tour that takes you arounda small island and you get to see the penquins coming in off the ocean to their burrows. We saw about 60 penguins, 5 possums, one seal and one water rat. A really neat experience. The penquins just waddle around as if we aren't even there.

Sat we got to go sailing again. But this time, it was in a race. Trev got to help pull up and down the head sail and the spinacker. I was just in the way, but we didn't do too badly. I think we got fourth or something.

The last couple of days we just went to a couple of different beaches. We now need to look for some jobs. We hope to stay in Adelaide for a little bit longer. We'll see how long it is until Dan kicks us out. We plan to do some grape picking for a couple of days, but it's apparently really hard work and doesn't pay well - but hey, it's part of the backpacking experience. I think we will look into more promising jobs while we do that.

Anyway, if you haven't already checked it out - we have some pictures up on a website. Just click on the "more pictures" link and it will take you right there. The site isn't done yet though.

Hope all of you are doing well. Cheers from Downunder!!