Brisbane

We made it to Queensland! Just in time, before the reigistration office closed. And there.......we found we probably shouldn't have been driving at all....but no worries, things are looking up. It's just that after our plates got stolen we would have gotten new ones mailed to us, but as we don't have a permanent address that was out of the question. Plus our names aren't on the vehicles registration (we have to be in queensland to do that), but we only ran into the cops once, only getting a scolding. But tomorrow we should be set.
Brisbane is a pretty crazy city, I'm liking it so far. They have an amazing man made beach in the city centre, it's disgustinly clean, and our hostel is right in the middle of everything.
We'll meet up with amanda when she flys in on wednesday, and probably camp for awhile.
I found a flight to New Zealand for $350 return, so I may spend a couple weeks over there before I have to find a job.

We woke up this morning to....wild turkeys, cookaburas, and wild pythons destroying our campsite. It was an early morning, especially beacause sleep was hard to come by after we spotted our first large spider, directly above my head. It might have been the size of my fist, he decided to hid just out of reach in the wall of our van. I'm trying to be manly, but those F***in guys are huge!
We're in Byrons Bay now, still trecking up the coast to get to queensland and replace our stolen licence plates. We haven't been pulled over yet though!
It's been getting hotter...and hotter...and hotter, but as the insurance girl told me yesterday..."this isn't hot, just wait till it's summer time..."

Australia.....

So we've toured around Sydney quite a bit already. We've been to the Opera house, the Harbour Bridge, the City Centre Tower, and downtown.
Mike and I took went to the Blue Mountains, and amazing area covered in hiking trails. We hiked to an abandoned castle, then played shots and ladders all night!
The last pic is Mike and mandy with our bling, purchasing our '94 Mazda E2000 Camper van.

Made it!

So I've made it. Took awhile to get a blog set up, but I've found some time and a place.

We flew in after staying in Calgary for a couple days, flight wasn't too long even with a baby sitting directly in front of me. The short story so far is, my buddy mike and myself stayed in Sydney for 2 days on Kings Cross (the Downtown Vancouver of Australia), then moved to the beach. We stayed by Bondi Beach, a world class beach with plenty of surfing and beaching.
We met up with Mandy, bought a camper van, and am now driving up the east coast camping. I'll fill in some more details later, but for now this internet is smiliar to dial up and am having a hard time even typing.