...and we've all managed to find jobs within a week of being here. Our apartment is really nice...it overlooks the Sydney harbour and Opera house, is right by some nice botanical gardens and is within reasonable walking distance to downtown. Jisca and I are both working in a cute restaurant/cafe called "Violetta's" about a 10min walk from our place...seems like a good place to work and they serve amazing coffee which we get to partake of for free:o) Paul is working a manual labour job and David is in an office job that I'm sure he'll write about before too long.

We are just heading into their winter here, which is quite mild actually. It still gets up to the low 20's during the day but at night and in the morning it gets down to 10ish. It feels very cold for us right now just coming from Bangkok and India where they're in their hottest times of the year. But we'll get used to it, and we'll hit warmer weather once we start heading up the coast.

We are looking forward to exploring this area around Sydney fully in the two months that we'll be here working, then the plan is to quit and take a bit of time to explore up the east coast before heading back to Canada.