Tasmanians have two heads. ;)

Hehejk. Well, we made it to Tasmania on Friday. Getting internet connection has been HELL. I've finally got a low, faint signal so I figured I'd update...

IT IS GORGEOUS HERE. I dare not upload pictures else my internet might decide to evaporate but really, it's adorable. First off, it's called Sandy Bay. Which is either a suburb or just the town next to Hobart. It totally looks like a quaint New England/faintly Irish-like town. A few of the guys were like, "This is exactly like the European countryside!! ....Although I've never really been to the European countryside..." Haha. It's just this little harbor in the middle of some big hills (I'd say mountains, but they're not really that big) with close, small houses cut into the hillsides. Unfortunately, the weather has been horrible, especially after sunny Perth, but there's been a huge rainbow both days I've been here. I could still do with about a 15 degrees higher temperature though.

The trip here was nice. Thursday night we basically stayed up until we were picked up from our apartments at 4:45am. yiikes. I had taken a nap around 8pm because I was too scared if I slept at night I wouldn't wake up in time to get out without panicking. But it was fine for me, although some people decided it would be a good idea to drink that night and were.. still drunk.. getting to the plane. Let's just say I had to guide two people around and hold their tickets so they wouldn't lose them. At security, Troy got stopped for a random explosives test, which was funny. The woman was just a riot. She said she'd lived in Tassie for six years and they had to chop off the second head she grew before she was allowed back onto the mainland. There's just a lot of jokes about how Tassie is the land of inbreeders and abnormalities that we've been hearing and this was just another to the list. Thank god we haven't experienced anything like that yet. Well, we had an hour stop-over in Sydney which was really pretty flying over. No time to leave the airport or anything, but I got a good picture in the air of the Opera House and the big bridge. Then a quick two hour flight to Tassie and here we are.

Friday we just did some grocery shopping, made some homemade pizza and hung out around here. Yesterday afternoon we went to this really cute open-air market that they have here every Saturday. I felt really jet lagged when we got back and slept most of the evening. We went to Irish Murphey's because they had a live band and met some crazy people but had a great time. Today Maria and I tried to be tourists but the jetlag has been really bad around here. It's worse adapting to the three hour time difference between Perth and here than it was getting to Perth in the first place. Weird. Ok, well I'm going to go, hopefully the internet lets me post this. Catch you all later.

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ps. Interesting fact: it's said that here in Hobart we're closer to Antarctica than we are to Perth. I haven't researched this, but I've heard it quite a few times by now. Hmmm..