Australian Statistics

Hello all. If like me you like to know numbers we have spent a few minutes working some out for you. We have now been in Australia 8 months so what does that mean exactly? These numbers are for Australia only..

How long have we been in Australia?

8 months

Or 

34 weeks

Or

244 days

Or

5856 hours

Or

351,360 minutes

Or

21,081,600 seconds

How many meals have we had?
732 (on the assumption we had breakfast lunch and dinner every day) 

How far have we travelled?

12,516km (7,822miles) - in our car only, that excludes the long haul trips in 'borrowed cars'

What did that cost us in petrol?

$1431 

Friday 28th March

So an end of the week update for you all. Were at Deb and Ian's until we go to Ayres Rock (Uluru) for Laura's 21st. 

In between that we will go to Melbourne but until then we will be doing the usual working and chilling out. 

This week we have started working with Ian on his website. We are now video editors & animation people.

{Whilst I was writing this blog our videos have gone live!

They don't work on Apple devices due to flash player so look on your computers & have the sound up!}

http://www.thinksoftware.net.au

So anyways that's been us for the past week just working away. 

So that's today's excitement with the demo of Ian's software and our animation going live.

Have a lovely Friday because it's the weekend tomorrow!! (& we are going to Costco!)

22nd March Port Stephens

For once in a very long time we awoke to a day where we hadn't had rain overnight! 
You would think this meant a dry tent but sadly not dew had its way with the tent! Oh well. We had breakfast of cheese toasties from our leftover cheese from burgers the night before. This was a good start to the day and motivated us to get the tent down quickly and get a move on to Port Stephens. It was a long drive for Myles with not a lot of excitement in between but as ever we kept ourselves entertained starting to remember and recognise where we were. We had planned to stay in a hostel recomended to us by Georgia and arrived to find that it was fully booked out even though it wasn't online.. More than frustrating we grabbed our camps book and started to search for somewhere else to search. Laura found somewhere for $25 with a pool so we went for it. Turns out its pretty new and modern which was a lovely change! All booked in & a tent up the next thing on the agenda was lunch and sand boarding. We had more cheese sandwiches whilst Laura found out where the sand dunes were. Anna Bay just down the road was our next destination. When we arrived we were greeted by sand and camels...

20th Grafton

Only a short one today! 

Laura got a haircut. We had a maccas for lunch, then we left. We do not have fond memories of Grafton.

(Myles' blog for the week)

18th/19th Gold Coast & Byron

We are tired today after a 7am start. Myles has a 3 hour drive and we're going paddle boarding. What can go wrong?

Oh and today was raining. 

We started our day pretty chilled using some wifi gutted to see we don't have a couch surf in Byron which means the tent has to come out!! With that we waited for rush hour to end and headed off early. We were in the Gold Coast by 11 with the clouds above us but holding out! We cooked an early noodle lunch before paddle boarding and made a start. We had a briefing before we headed out and that was us! We both got the last 2 boards... PINK! Good thing Myles likes pink...

Monday 17th back to Brisbane!

On the road again..

We spent the morning being a bit lazy in bed with the cat which was nice. After this bags packed and we were off! Sort of.. Laura had seen a very nice dress in a window so we went to check it out. Turned out it was horrible but we found a nicer one. 

This also wasn't bought due to the zip down the front.

Friday 14th, Saturday 15th, Sunday 16th Sunshine Coast

Today was our last day working for the hostel, when we say we I mean Laura was finishing her hours that she hadn't done. This left Myles in bed watching new films & tv shows that terry gave us for our hard drive! It was a pretty easy morning cleaning thankfully! Once this was done back to our room for some chill out time! Myles was watching F1 practice so I had a lay down and watched some girly films we had acquired. This took up most of the afternoon between packing lunch and other things. We headed to play some pool before dinner and got invited to have some leaving drinks with some of the guys we had been working with which was lovely. We ordered our last meal from Wayne the chef who Laura had worked with lots. 

Thursday 13th Update!

Today has been a happy day! Firstly we have the day off from making beds much to Laura's relief..

Secondly this meant a well deserved lie in & long morning shower which is good too!

After this Laura proved that the car has an infestation of ants. Not so good..

This meant a trip to bunnings! (Laura seems to have bunnings syndrome..) 

Ant spray acquired Coles, Aldi and woolworths were all visited to acquire food stuffs for our departure on Saturday! This is another good thing. After all this food shopping Laura went to specsavers and left with yet another set of new glasses as Australia had rusted hers.. (Big up specsavers they do have cracking customer service!) 

Next stop flight centre! 

Don't get too excited only 1 flight booked today and we're off to Ayres Rock for Laura's 21st! Very exciting, but more so because Debra and Ian have also booked their flights to the big rock for Laura's birthday! 

Update 8th March

Yet again our plans have changed with the wind as usual.

So our 6 week stay has turned into a 2 week stay (leaving this Friday/Saturday) We have a drive back to the Sydney region of the world ahead of us. We're going to stop off as we go again picking up some places we missed first time & the few we loved. 

It's all a bit in the air at the moment but could mean possible work whilst were here or in England?! Very exciting times are coming for us! So watch this space over the next few weeks you never know what could happen! 

This is our rough itiniary as it stands thus far! 

Didgeridoos & Didgeridont's

This is a bit of a side post, whilst tidying up our new accommodation Laura found a great book called "Didgeridoos & Didgeridont's "

Sunday 2nd of March

After all of the excitement of Lady Elliot we hit the ground with a bit of a bump!

We have decided to hang around our hostel in Hervey Bay for a while. We aren't sure how long we will be here just yet but could be upto 6 weeks. 

We are working in the hostel doing general stuff like making beds to mowing and today Laura got her first painting job unsurprisingly! 

(Before they were a horrible terracotta brown.)

So in exchange for 4 hours work a day we get a restaurant meal & our accommodation, washing and all things like that! 

So that's us for a while! 

Just a short one to keep you all updated! 

Lots of love to you all xxx