Easter Weekend

To infinity and beyond!!!!!!!!!! er-- to Sydney!!

Day 1:
Morgan, Scott and I set out for the airport at 8AM from campus. It was nice not to have to get up super early. Our plane left around 10:30--there were loads of people in the airport and pretty much all of them were headed to Sydney. It must be the Easter destination! We arrived in Sydney clueless as to where we were going to stay. We had decided to "wing-it" on accomodation as we weren't sure where our days' travels would bring us. We ended up calling a hostel that advertised free pick up from the airport--in the end it cost us each 12 dollars, but it turned out to be one of the cheapest (for obvious reason) hostels in the city--a total of $37 for two nights. Our first site of the city was quite interesting. We loaded into a 10 passenger van with some Germans, perhaps Canadian?, French, Russian..who knows what else. And our driver was some sort of Spanish who spoke crazily to someone on his radio while he drove recklessly and carelessly in odd directions--bolting around. But it was a good way to see the city and do some good people watching. We were the last people to get dropped off and we were partly out of the busy area. The hostel looked a little uninviting from the outside and the guy at the reception was pretty dead. Anyway it was cheap, the bathrooms were drenched in water and other questionable substances. We got in a room with only one other person--a guy traveling from New Zealand who we met at like 3AM our first night there. We believe he had wanted to have the room to himself because he brought in two girls....
Anyway we decided to climb the Sydney Harbor Bridge but more to come on that...I'm off to Brisbane till Monday..hopefully I'll finish the story of Sydney later!