Blue Mountains!!!

Azooz and his buddy Barri are taking me to the Blue Mountains today, which means my alarm was set for 7:15.  With the events that happened last night I did not want to get up at all but the mountains awaited! 

After a 30 min train ride to Parramatta I was met by Azooz who took me to meet his University friends and then to his flat to get his brother Barri.  If the flat wasn’t such a mess I would have said it was pretty nice… but there were shoes everywhere and the floor was in need of a vacuum.  It is shared with 4 other guys so I don’t blame him for the state it was in.

When Barri was finally ready the three of us loaded into the car and set off for the incredible Blue Mountains.  I was super tired on the drive up but Barri kept talking to me and the music was so loud the speakers almost blew.  I had no problem finding the energy to get along with the rest of my day, which is always a good thing.

Barri says he has been to the mountains so many times before and knows the aboriginal story behind the Three Sisters; they are three rock pillars right next to one another.  I don’t know why they are called the Blue Mountains but they are beautiful none-the-less.

The Three Sisters.

Barri on left and Azooz on right.

View from the tram.

So Beautiful!

The Falls.

This little dude took an interest in me.

After the Three Sisters we drove to the fun center or whatever it is called.  There are multiple things you can do here; ride a cute little train, take Australia’s longest tram and the steepest tram.  I picked the longest tram and got an incredible view of the waterfall as well as the mountains themselves.

At the other side of the tram we had to find our way back to the car via a nature walk, I didn’t mind this one bit.  The only nature part of it was at the beginning, where we spent a good half hour standing in front of the waterfall and taking pictures of each other.  Barri was the photographer and Azooz was the model; the pictures that were being taken were absolutely hilarious!  Azooz took his shirt of and kept posing on different rocks flexing different muscles and Barri would say, “No, no you need to look like this”.  I was beside myself with laughter.

After the incredible waterfall photo shoot we made our way back to the car; it was a long walk and very hot outside.

I was very happy to make our way home when I got into the air-conditioned car.  On our way home Azooz and Barri noticed two hitchhikers on the side of the road, they made a U-turn and picked them up.  They say they do it all the time as long as the people look nice.  The hitchhikers were German and French couple that was making their way to Canberra.  We didn’t talk much to them though, only listened and sang to music.

Instead of going home I was brought back to their flat, where I proceeded to make pasta for lunch.  The sauce had broccoli, mushrooms, black beans, onions, green pepper, carrots and lots of spices.  It tasted so good and everyone was pleased I made so much of it too.

For the rest of the day we played PS3 games with the university students and sat outside on the balcony and talked.

At 5:30 I was dropped off at the train station and made my way home.  Hanging with them was really fun and I can’t wait to go clubbing with them tomorrow.

Back in the room Niahm, Sydney, and I had the craving for food and headed out to get some.  I felt like such a fatty when I bought to bags of chocolates, a doughnut, bananas and coconut water.

Other than that my night was un-eventful.