So long farewell......

......So long, farewell, Auf wiedersehen, good night,I hate to go and leave LA, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia and Singapore. So long, farewell, Auf wiedersehen, adieu, Adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and yieu.

Well the time has come for us to pack up our backpacks for one final time and make the westerly 14 hours trip home.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our well wishers and fan club for keeping interested in our journey and tales. We hope to be using this blog again someday, its been an amazing experience and be ready to hear all these stories many times to come.

Love and kisses

Deb, Kate and Stacey xxxxx

We are here for a Singapore Sling....

Well we left Pauline and Neils after spending out last day at Rottenest Island touring around on bikes and swimming in gorgeous blue/green coves and getting our last bit of rays! It was sad to say good bye to Pauline and Neil as they had been so lovely to us since we arrived and really made us feel like we were at home. So thank you Pauline and Neil, hope you are enjoying the peace! Looking forward to seeing you when you come over next!

So we are now in Singapore and well what an end to an amazing trip!! We headed out for our first full day to see the sights, but it was torrential rain the whole day!! We managed to see a couple of temples and some shops but it was just so wet that not much was achieved! Jenny and Debbie got completely lost on the way home and spent ages trying to get a taxi to pick them up but the look of two soaking wet girls didnt really appeal so we walked around for about 30 mins getting more and more lost till one lovely little taxi man took pitty on us and let us soak his back seat!! They then find out everyone else got lost and had the same problem!!

That night Stacey, Katie, Jenny and Debbie all got ready for a night at the famous Raffles hotel, they dressed up so as to look the part and caught a cab over. The hotel was amazing, all done up in christmas decorations, just like the film Annie!!


Debbie put on her posh voice and told the waiter they were 'here for a singapore sling' and they were whisked to a table and served 4 cocktail glasses and some cashews!!

well it was so nice!!! the cashews kept getting refilled and the sling went down far to well, we are planning our own cocktail party when we get home just to have another one!Then the pianist started playing happy birthday, to seemingly noone, so Debbie waved a bit, pretended it was her birthday and lo and behold as we left the waiter told us that a gentleman at the bar had purchased a bottle of champayne for her birthday ! we ummed and ahhed wondering what to do but then decided, well we deserve a little treat at the end of our trip and just one wouldnt hurt! so we sat back down and champers was served....well.....a 200 pound bottle of Dom Perignon if you please!! Before we knew it a second bottle had arrived along with some strawberries!! The silent benefactor was obvioulsy feeling generous!!! Debbie then happened to mention that she hadnt had a birthday cake this year but actually prefers cheese so our waiter Gary descretly runs off and manages to get us a cheese platter as well!!! We love Gary!!!! He was loving it as well!! Then out of the blue Stacey gets bought a glass of red wine as well, we started to enquire about the wine (as we are now experts after visiting 2 winerys!) and it turned out the bottle Stacey was drinking from cost.....drum roll please.....$12,000 SD!!!!!! thats 4100 english big ones!!! so one glass cost 600 pounds!!!! We were on a roll!!!

By this point we started to feel a little guilty so got Gary to book us a cab, passed our thanks and went to leave, as we got outside out little cab was waiting, alongside a limo bus with flashing lights and free drinks in!!! The little porter man whispered to Katie and Debbie, 'If I were you I would take the free party bus home, all expenses paid for your birthday, and it will take you on a night tour of the city'!!!! So we ended our night with the 4 of us in this party bus with Timotae the driver taking us to all the good look out spots across the city and singing along to Crocodile Rock and Wind Beneath My Wings!! The whole evening cost us less then 20 pounds each but our private sponsor a lot more!!!! We ended up taking all the free water and coke from the bus!!! What backpackers we are!!!

Now we dont usually do things like this, its not like we turn up at posh hotels, and pretend its out birthdays everynight of the week, but its our last stop before home and we were in a celebratory mood so when you can......!!

Julie will be so jealous she missed out when we tell her!!!!

See you all soon - from ladies what have singpore slings, free champers, strawberrys, a cheese board, the most expensive wine on the planet and a free party bus home!!! What lives we lead!!
xxx

We have a new friend.......Flipper

We arrived to Perth and immediately enjoyed the home comforts of 'Auntie Pauline's and Uncle Neils', proper towels, washing machines and dryers that don't require dollar coins or having to watch so no one steals your clothes, a pool just for our luxury and not having to lock away your belongings - heaven!!

We lazied for the first two days, coming to the conclusion that it wasn't bad as we had been on the go for 8.5 weeks. Thursday Neil took the day off work and became our tour guide, we headed to Yanchep national park, where we had a BBQ. This was a novel experience for us and with the wide life such as Kangaroo's, Koalas and Kookaburra around it wasn't hard to remember where we were. It was a good day out and Neil wowed us with his knowledge of the area and local plants!!

After not having an early morning for almost a week we rectified that by having a six am start to go and see the Dolphins. We made our way to Rockingham and not to long after we were in our wetsuits we were in the water with the dolphins. This particular group of males werent to friendly and kept swimming off so we were on and off the boats like yoyos. It then took about another two hours before we got to see anything which was quite dissapointing, we were then called to get ready and back in to the water. Bingo, this was what Dolphin swimming was supposed to be like. There was a pod of about eleven dolphins and they were so close to us, we must have remained in the water for about 30/40 mins and swam above them/beside them and it was breathtaking. Poor James became really sea sick and had to get out of the water so missed most of it which was so annoying for him as it was his birthday treat. So another amazing activity ticked off the list.

We hope everyone is well and getting excited thats its only a week until we are home. We are going to try and fit in as much as possible in the week......so get ready for our final blog updates!!

Lots of love the girls xx