*Emily Batty*: Update, Day 1: Arrived in Australia

Friday, August 28, 2009

Update, Day 1: Arrived in Australia

Crikey, we’re in Australia :) Only been here a couple hours and this word seems to have already taking over our vocabulary haha
So we arrived safe and sound. Flights went alright. Actually, our 15hour flight from Vancouver to Sydney went better than our 5hour flight from Toronto to Vancouver. It was hot, crammed and I was frustratingly fidgety. I didn’t drive Adam crazy though which is surprising haha...
We landed in Sydney this morning and took our last flight to Canberra not long after (very short flight). Turns out none of our luggage showed up. Got lost between Sydney and here in Canberra. The airline says it will be only a couple hours before it arrives cause there are flights going back and forth every hour.
We have our backpacks and that is it. We’re backpackin... it’s awesome!
Still waiting on our car rental to be registered... bit of confusion there, so we took a taxi to our accommodations. I thought I would pick the taxi drivers ear for the few minutes we had with him. Apparently the kangaroos are not uncommon to see at all. Almost over populated and may even come across a dead one on the road he said :( 95% of car accidents are “roo” related.
We don’t have Internet which isn’t fun... actually it sucks but our place is pretty cool. It’s a little cabin.
So it’s been a few hours already and no sign of our bikes which we want to build up so we can ride to get groceries. And our luggage for warmer clothes... brrr... I think they forgot about us. It is absolutely freezing here!
There’s not much to do right now so Adam is playing with a phonebook and map so when our stuff does arrive we can start exploring.
It’s now early evening and our luggage has finally arrived!! Mmmm CLIFF BARS (the ones we almost had taken away and fined $150.00 for having when entering the country in the airport. They were also pretty crazy picky about making sure everything was spick and span, show room clean, with no sign of dirt anywhere... thanks to Adam who spent hours cleaning them before packing whu who :)