Made it!

After 24 hours of flying (not as much sleep as I'd hoped but plenty of food, wine and movies) I finally got to Sydney about 9 on Friday night. Walking out of the terminal was a bit of a shock as it was sooooooooo hot and really humid but when I met Adey & Lara they said that it was quite unusual to be like this. Drove back to their flat and then sat out on the balcony with some champagne cocktails before I was completely flagging. They've got great views of the CBD though which is just like looking out to Canary Wharf. Relieved to hear that they haven't had any creepy crawlies up here too but am still checking things just to get into practice for when I'm not in such civilised surroundings!

Still can't quite believe I'm actually here in Australia !!

Ready to go

Bags are packed now and ready to go!
In fact, I leave today and in 36 hours time will be having a beer in 32 degree heat!!
To be more precise, I leave my parents house in just over 4 hours in very cold weather to get the coach to the airport!!!

Had forgotten that it's going to be cold still when I travel so am having to resort to taking things on the coach that I can then throw away on plane! Actually have forgotten quite a few things which won't surprise anyone I know - most annoying is my lovely Clinique lip gloss which I only just found again after losing it for a couple of weeks - grrrr ;-(

Still have the completely wired feeling that I've had all week - staying up until stupid o'clock cleaning, packing, sorting out, researching, emailing, chatting, making tea and generally being excited! My method behind the madness was actually to not have much sleep this week so I can sleep on the planes but Adey (my mate in Sydney) now tells me that's a really stupid idea as it'll never happen. Oh well, it's been fun trying !!

Have had a lovely night out with my parents and eaten so much that even 2 seconds after writing that I'm buzzing, I'm actually exhausted so might and try and do the decent thing and turn in for the night. Just gotta sort out some tunes onto my i-pod first though, dammit....