Aight so I'm officially back in the states, I say officially since last night was the first night I had a full nights sleep since I got back on July 7th. My sleeping pattern has been absolutely insane so I'm glad I got back with enough time before classes started again to readjust. I hope that after last night my body has readjusted. I know many are eager to hear about the end of my journey and see pictures so I will try to grant those wishes now. This is going to be one very long blog entry and I'll try to keep to some kind of order as much as I can. Just to back track a bit.... Before going to Fiji we hung out in Darwin and then went to Sydney for five days.

===Okay so updating will take a little longer than expected so check out what I have so far and make sure to check back soon (most likely Monday) for more updates.===

Marion arrived in Darwin a couple of days before Elaina so we went to the Markets and the Rapid Creek Water Garden. Then when Elaina arrived we rented a car and went to Litchfield National Park and on a Jumping Crocodile tour. We stayed at James' flat during our time there which was really nice and had some really great views. Below are some pictures of these places. There aren't any pictures of evening outtings....but that's because the New York ladies were a bit jetlagged from their flight and weren't motivated to do very much past 11 PM.
Poffertjes were my absolutely favority thing to eat at Mindil Beach Market. They're these little tiny pancakes, you get 19 of them actually, and then you add toppings to them. I always got mine with Fresh strawberries, bananas, vanilla ice cream, wipped cream and chocolate fudge. MMMmmmmmmmmmmm good! Yes, I have a sweet tooth. And the markets were every Thursday and Sundays so I ate a lot of this!

So this isn't the best picture per say but it's the best outta' the bunch. As you can see Marion is pressing her finger down trying to show the French guy, with very limited English skills, how to use her ditigal camera, yeah it was quite complicated.

Aboriginals playing dideridoos at the market

Mindil Beach Sunset Market

Marion at the Rapid Creek Water Garden

stairs to Florence Falls

at Florence Falls

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Elaina at termite mound

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Pics of the Jumping Croc tour and the flat.

This is Godfrey, the oldest croc we saw in our Adelide River Jumping Croc tour. If you look closely you'll see that he's missing his front right leg. Must have lost it in a fight!

Marion and Me on our Jumping Croc tour.

Our tour guide was teasing these guys

Me dancing to my Summer 2006 favorite song. AKA 'My Australia song'

If the ladies didn't want to go out I was determined to party anyways.

One of the many wonderful views from James' flat

Sunset from our flat in Darwin

We arrived in Fiji on Monday July 31st. The end of my summer travels is closely approaching and I'm a bit sadden by that. But Fiji is a great stop before the real world. We are staying in Club Fiji Resort. We have our own Bure which is pretty cozy expect for the huge water bug we had visiting our room the first night. No Worries the ladies let me sleep with the lights on, aren't they sweet. ;-) We'll be staying there during our week here and taking day tours to the other Fiji islands. I plan to go scuba diving. Yesterday we went out with two local Fijians who took us to a Chinese resturant which made Elaina break out a bit and then we went dancing next door at, After Dark. There were many prostitutes there and E danced with their pimp, but she didn't know who he was at the time. The music was very good compared to all the places I've been to in Austraila. They played Marion's favorite song, "Hips Don't lie" by Shakira, tons of Reggae and even Kwaito music. I would upload pictures but this computer isn't picking up my thumb dive so I'll have to do that another day. Although the blog update might be a bit limited while in Fiji since the internet at our resort is 25 cents per minute. I arrive on the 6th of August at midnight if anyone wants to pick me up from the airport. I'll post my flight information is need be. Please comment if interested and you could possible recieve some great Australian wine for your troubles.