We're really here

I know I'm a little behind, but last Saturday we stopped at the famous Sydney Opera House and the bridge. It made me realize that we're really in Australia. That's kind of weird. We were there at a perfect time of night and it was so pretty! It was perfect.

We also went and found the building where Brighton's doing her internship. 35 Buckingham street. She's all grown up and professional!

This is Bronte Road. It's the main street by where we live. This is the road we get to the bus and train stops, the grocery store, the mall, and probably anything else we need. And yes, they are driving on the wrong side of the road. I don't think I'll ever get used to it. Everything is opposite here! Literally everything. It's so weird.

Spiders

So within the first hour of being in our apartment, Brighton and I found 3 spiders. We all know how I react to spiders. They're not small either! I don't go near those creepy things so luckily I have a good friend like Brighton. They were all in webs though so we searched for the vacuum and had to play like we were insect killers for a bit. (My job was to turn the vacuum on and off...Brighton took care of the rest) PS- Sorry Jill, I just had to share the misery I'm going through.

A few hours after this horrible discovery, our flat mate Jorge showed us where we walk to get to the bus and train everyday. A whole tree of these spiders and their webs are on the way. Lovely.

Luckily this is what else we see on our walk to our apartment. Yep, that's the ocean. So pretty!



We didn't think we'd have too much trouble with jet lag because we had such irregular sleeping schedules already, but it hit us. This is us chillin on our top bunk that first night trying with all our might to stay awake. It was the most miserable thing! We only made it till 9:00. That can go down in history as the earliest the 2 of us have ever gone to bed!

Off to Australia!

Brighton's been waiting for me to realize that we were really going to the opposite side of the world for the next 3 months. Well, this face of mine isn't pretending. It finally hit when I said bye to my parents and we were waiting to get on the plane. We had a little anxiety, I'm not gonna lie! Once we were on the plane we seemed to be fine though.

Pretty sunset above the clouds before landing in L.A. (side note- L.A's not my favorite place to be during the final few minutes of a close Lakers playoff game. Brighton had to keep reminding me we might lose our lives if I kept expressing my hatred for them outloud. It was rough.)

Sorry, this is the only picture that can be exposed from the plane ride over. You can't imagine what 18 hours of traveling can do to the 2 of us! But this is what we looked at for way too much time. The ride actually wasn't too bad. We just did a lot of sleeping and eating. And some more sleeping and eating. They fed us so much!

Here's some pictures of where we live. The balcony is definitely my favorite part. We just need a porch swing to go on it and it'd be perfect!

When we got there, the guy we're renting from had the bed spreads on our beds and all. He even had 2 of his old cell phones sitting on our desk charging for us. He and the equadorian couple that lives with us are helping us so much, we'd be so stressed without them.