Well...it's a start! I went to an internet place next door...that was an experiance in itself. It was filled with Asian kids smoking and playing internet video games shouting swear words in english and something else I didn't understand. The program I need to upload multiple photos doesn't seem to work on these computers. I'm on a free (WHAT?! Free?!) hotel computer right now. I guess someone paid for it and didn't use their whole session. In any case, travelblog.org did something that the individual picture uploading is fast....but not on this computer. I'll try to get more to you soon! Tomorrow Alex and I might be going on a little adventure. You're hooked up to a cable and desend down water falls, jump off cliffs into lakes, and slide down natural water slides. We don't ... read more

Sunday, November 18th, 2007 - 8:17 p.m. Crikey...we are beat and it's so early. Leaving Cairns and taking the shuttle to Port Douglas was exactly what I've been waiting for. From the "caution kangaroo crossing" signs to the open fields of wallabies....it was quite Australian. We checked out our new home for the next five days and I immediately fell in love with the room, the pool, the environment, and the 10 minute walk to town. The bugs are pretty bad here and the walk over loads my nose in that in the course of half a block you smell a range from flowers to cake to rotting dead animal (probably a plant, but that's what it smells like) to someone grilling. It's really hot and muggy and several times we had some kind of huge ... read more