First blog post from Australia!
Sorry for not posting in a more timely fashion, the past few days have been a little hectic and my wifi has been spotty. So here is a rundown of the past few days.
Monday morning I said adios to Iowa and flew out of Sioux Falls. Final stop Monday was Honolulu and spent the night there. Had a "cheeseburger in paradise" but it was drizzling all afternoon so I decided not to go find a beach so as to have my "toes in the water, rear in the sand, cold *root*beer in hand." I found a nice chair and curled up with a good Louis Lamour book and a woman sat down near me, in a very girly voice she said "hi" so I said "hello, how are you?" In response, she said in a more normal and almost disappointed voice, "oh, you're a girl, I thought you were a young man." I knew this trip would have quite a few firsts but I didn't expect this to be my first time having a woman flirt with me! I embraced my inner hobo and slept outside, and man did I ever sleep like a rock. Well, actually, I slept on a rock. There was a designated area in the airport for people to sleep before catching their early morning flights and it was full of big slabs of concrete so that is where me and about 20 other people spent the night.
Tuesday morning I left Honolulu at 8 in the morning. 10 hours later, I landed in Sydney at 4 in the afternoon on Wednesday. Time sure does fly! At this point I was quite tired so I went in search of a hostel. I booked myself into the first one I saw and crashed for the night.
Thursday was spent shopping. Those who know me well can attest to the fact that I really hate shopping. I got back to my hostel and just wanted to go to bed. Now the first night it was just me and one other person in my room and she snored ALOT but I was so tired that I could sleep through it. Tonight though, three more people came into our room. So it was me, the girl who snores, and three other people. One guy came into the room and thought I was also a guy, took him a bit to figure out I was a girl. Guess I should grow my hair out or something so I don't have these awkward moments anymore! The light didn't work in our room so I went to bed around 8 since we couldn't see anything anyways. The girl who snores came in late at night. By 5 am, everyone else was awake because she was snoring so loud and by 6, we had all given up on getting back to sleep and just left the room. It was fine by me since I had gone to bed early but the other three were not so happy about it. I quite happily checked out after that.
Friday was also spent shopping. It was rather hectic but in the end I had found a car and a hotel to spend the night and that's where I am now! Tomorrow I plan to pick up my car and head out to the Blue Mountains to spend the rest of the weekend there. Then Monday I start at Moxey Farms. I'll be very glad to get out of the city. Give me country any day.

I've been to 5 different countries now! The USA, Holland, Belgium, France, and now Australia (just New South Wales is scratched off, we'll see how many other states I get to while I'm here!)

Goodbye USA! This is the coastline of California.

Darling Harbor

So many big tall buildings! Ahh! Its also the Year of the Dog so there's lots of dog posters and flags all over Sydney right now.

I got lost so this kind statue pointed me in the right direction.

These birds are really funny looking, they are fairly big, probably 2 or 3 times bigger than a pigeon, have long beaks and they strut like a chicken. Don't know what they are called though...

Did my devotions beneath this tree this morning.

Phew! That was a long post.