Australia for the next three months.

Well....we made it to Australia safe and sound, yesterday. We recovered from the lack of sleep yesterday and did the tourist thing today....touring the harbour of Sydney and walking everywhere and spending some time having some drinks in front of the famous opera house. It was nice to have to walk for once! We truely miss our campervan, it is hot as hell here and they are having a heat wave this week! 40 degrees Celcius....Out hostel doesn't have air conditioning...so it has been sweaty so far, but at least we have showers to cool off in. The hostel is otherwise great! The biggest one we have been to so far and filled with peeps from all over the world! It is in a great location too! Makes life all that much easier. Hard Rock Cafe (funny to those who don't know -I worked there for 6 years) is only 5 minutes away and we actually ate there tonight for dinner! The service was not so good, but you know after working there for so long..I am quite critical and it was shift change after all! But the best news of the day comes from the fact that I am now the pround owner of a car!!!! A 1988 Ford Fairmont Station wagon! Funny huh! We had to take care of things quite fast, being that it is a holiday here and it will take longer for things to be ready for us. We went to a place that was reccomended in Lonely planet and again only a 5 minute walk a way! It was better to buy through this place because they guarantee to buy it back...but we are going to try and sell it ourselves when we are through with it, and hopefully get all our money back. I am relieved to have that in the works, so now I can just enjoy New Years. Sydney is the place to be! They throw a huge show here. They spend 2 million dollars on fireworks and do two shows one at 9Pm and another at midnight. The mates say it is spectacular and not to be missed! So like taste of Chicago in July we are going to suffer through the masses to see what the hype is all about! I will have the last of the pictures to post from New Zealand soon.......but then get ready for Australia pics. My first impression is that this place is alot like the states...but we have not been out of the city yet. Now that we have the Wagon....we will see what adventures it takes us on! We head up the east coast first and then down through the dessert on the way back to Sydney in March! I can't wait! Hope everyone has a great New Years!