...One song to leave behind-Glory, one last refrain.
Blue Mountains were excellent - we had a great hike!! Sooo here we go:
Saturday: Left our dorm @ 7 bloody a.m., the dude (Mike? Who knows, he drove slow) took us to meet our bus @ the Shangri-La hotel in the Rocks (the area we went for my b-day). The bus picked us up and we went to the lower part of the Blue Mountains first, to Euorkea (maybe, maybe not) Clearing, where we saw some super adorable wild kangas. Super cute! Then we had some coffee (oh thank god, seriously) and anzec cookies (GOOD). Then we went to this overlook and got some groovy troovy pictures of the mountains. Afterwards, we were dropped off at Echo Point Lookout to start our hike. Kait got a picture with an aboriginal guy who tried to kiss her and smelled terrible, so Alexis and I nixxed that idea. We travelled down the Giant Stairway, which is steps of metal in some places and other places carved out of the mountain - about a bajillion going from the cliff face to the bottom of the valley. Talk about ouch. We went all the way around the Three Sisters (story to follow) and into Federal Pass. We travelled upwards to Great Round Walk and then up even further to the Katoomba Falls Crossing. We then wandered aimlessly to the scenic skyway so we didn't have to take the Furber Steps (over 1,000 steps practically vertical, eff that shit) and finished. It took about 2 hours. It was great fun :-).
Saturday afternoon/night: After that they dropped us at our hotel (paid for by BCA, woot woot) the Mountain Heritage Hotel - which was gorgeous! Kait and I stayed together while Alexis and Bekah (we hate her. Sorry Al) had the other room. We then decided that a 1.5 hour nap was necessary. It commenced and was lovely. Then, get this, I showered. Without SHOES! WOOOOOOOOO! It was my first shoe-less shower since July. Beautiful. Then we got dressed and went to dinner at this place that had bad food and worse service. After dinner we went back to the hotel to do work. That last about 2.4 seconds. Kait and I watched Fantastic 4 and Walking Tall. We agreed it's the most Tv we've watched since July - it was highly glorious. Then we went to bed. My bed was comfortable and I got...probably top 5 best sleep...since i've been here.
Sunday (today): Fully included breakfast - CROSSIANTS! WOOOO. So good. Coffee= good. Wandered around Katoomba, checked out the shops. Ate at subway. Left Katoomba. Stopped at the Featherdale Wildlife place. Petted a super adorable Koala. Got chased by scary birds. Had terrible ice-cream. Came back to DLC and had an improvised dinner of lettuce, carrots, cucumbers, green beans and corn on the cob. Did some homework. Watched Greys with Alexis. Showered. Good stuff.
Three Sisters:
A long long time ago there was an Aboriginal tribe in Katoomba (does the name give it away?) and they had a witch doctor who had a magic bone. He could point that magic bone at any member of his own tribe and turn them into ANYTHING he wanted (how cooool). So, this tribe is at war with another tribe - and by the way, the witch doctor has three HOT daughters, all teenagers. So the other tribe is like, dude. During the war, let's steal the hot daughters and keep them. So the witch doctor hears about this and is like, ahh hell no. So he gets the bright idea to tell his daughters to sit on a cliff face, he turns them into rocks after promising to turn them back into hotties once the war is over. Obviously the witch doctor dies and is pushed off the cliff, his magic bone falling with him. Legand has it that if the bone is found, someone can turn the hottie daughters back into people. The end.
Also, *knock on wood* I have seen zero non-humans. Except Damo, but he doesn't count....
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