Hi, everyone!  
 
Time for an update...  
Nelms and I just finished a whole day in Sydney!  We walked 
everywhere  (at least 3+ miles) and got to see the Opera House, the Harbor Bridge, the Botanical Gardens, and Sydney Tower - what an amazing day!  We leave tomorrow morning for New Zealand and start "winging it" from there.  In other words, we have a hotel for the first night, and then we are on our own! 

  We're renting a car and seeing where it takes us...LOOK OUT!  Nelms and IP will be on the loose in the land of the Hobbits!!!  LOL!  
 
  
*Bunny*, we saw your request for pics in Mermaid's thread.  We have taken over 200 pictures so far, and we haven't even made it to Mermaid's, yet.  Heck, we're only 5 days into the vacation, and we are trying to figure out how to get more memory for the camera without getting KILLED on prices here.  We should have gotten a memory card in Thailand ($40 for 1GB), but oops ...live and learn.  
 
Well, I guess that's it for now.  The i-cafe we are using is freaking HOT, and we've been out all day.  Time for some raspberry vodka and diet Sprite and R&R in the hotel room.  
 
   
Have a GREAT WEEK everyone!  

  We'll check back later!  
G'day, mate!  
 
  
 