Kate and I have such a fun time road trippin' down the eastern coast of Oz. We had an awesome Valentine's day with Biba up in Brizzy eating cheese and watching Sex & the City. It was so fabulously girlie! 
It was great to see the Cavids, Fletch, Austin, and of course, the lab gang. We ate at Trang's twice cause they have the best noodles in Australia. Then we started our road trip south to Sydney with a 3 day stop in Byron Bay where we took surf lessons. Surf lessons turned into a "private" surfing lesson which turned into us having to tell the surf instructor we were not going to have sex with him. While we were hanging on the beach the tide came in, and we couldn't really get back to the car the way we had come because the waves were crashing into the rocks. Kate and I decided to scale the rocks over the cliff while the surf instructor took the boards around the treacherous rocks. Half-way up the cliffs, we realize that he got the much easier job. The shale rocks are falling off as we grab them, the other beach goer that left before us was throwing rocks at us as he climbed up. About 45 minutes later, we finally made it through the Brier patch to the other side of the cliff so we could climb out. We basically hassled the surf instructor about his poor decision making skills until he was embarrassed enough to cook us dinner. After that fiasco, the swell really picked up and it was too dangerous for us to go surfing for a couple of days. We spent one night in Port Macquarie and the koala park before heading to Sydney. 
Friday night Kate and I took ourselves down to the docks and some nice men took us for a sundown sail around Sydney harbour. All day Saturday we spent surfing in Royal National park south of Sydney. And on Sunday, 
Ellis and Scotty took us for a ride up the coast in a Cessna. We got to do a couple of laps around the harbour and see the cliffs along the coast and practice swinging our "guns" on sailboats. Check out the video bar to watch Kate and I scream as Scotty does crazy shit with the plane. Tuesday, we did some more surfing had a big brunch and then took the train back to Syd to see an outdoor movie with Gramps. It would have been lovely except it was raining the whole time. Then on Wednesday, I had to drop Kate off at the airport so she could go on to Vietnam and I took myself down to health services Australia to get a chest xray with all the other immigrants. That is a great place to catch some strange disease. Kate and I will be meeting back up at the end of March to see Nepal, but I was sad to see her go.
It was great to see the Cavids, Fletch, Austin, and of course, the lab gang. We ate at Trang's twice cause they have the best noodles in Australia. Then we started our road trip south to Sydney with a 3 day stop in Byron Bay where we took surf lessons. Surf lessons turned into a "private" surfing lesson which turned into us having to tell the surf instructor we were not going to have sex with him. While we were hanging on the beach the tide came in, and we couldn't really get back to the car the way we had come because the waves were crashing into the rocks. Kate and I decided to scale the rocks over the cliff while the surf instructor took the boards around the treacherous rocks. Half-way up the cliffs, we realize that he got the much easier job. The shale rocks are falling off as we grab them, the other beach goer that left before us was throwing rocks at us as he climbed up. About 45 minutes later, we finally made it through the Brier patch to the other side of the cliff so we could climb out. We basically hassled the surf instructor about his poor decision making skills until he was embarrassed enough to cook us dinner. After that fiasco, the swell really picked up and it was too dangerous for us to go surfing for a couple of days. We spent one night in Port Macquarie and the koala park before heading to Sydney. 
Friday night Kate and I took ourselves down to the docks and some nice men took us for a sundown sail around Sydney harbour. All day Saturday we spent surfing in Royal National park south of Sydney. And on Sunday, 
Ellis and Scotty took us for a ride up the coast in a Cessna. We got to do a couple of laps around the harbour and see the cliffs along the coast and practice swinging our "guns" on sailboats. Check out the video bar to watch Kate and I scream as Scotty does crazy shit with the plane. Tuesday, we did some more surfing had a big brunch and then took the train back to Syd to see an outdoor movie with Gramps. It would have been lovely except it was raining the whole time. Then on Wednesday, I had to drop Kate off at the airport so she could go on to Vietnam and I took myself down to health services Australia to get a chest xray with all the other immigrants. That is a great place to catch some strange disease. Kate and I will be meeting back up at the end of March to see Nepal, but I was sad to see her go.
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Miss you, you crazy Texan! Great seeing you recently. I enjoy reading your blog and wishing i had the balls to take some nudey shots on top of mountains. One day, one day.
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