Hello All! We're still in Cairns incase you were wondering. The last couple of days have been very, very productive. We've gone to bed at 12 and woken up at 12. No, but really, we have been getting things done here. We finally found the immagration office here, so we have our Australian visas in our passports. I bought cheap runners, and a cheap new watch, which will be helpful as well. We opened up Bank accounts at the Commonwealth Bank on Friday, and we applied for our tax file numbers online. The tax file numbers are very necessary if anyone wants to work in Australia, because if you don't have one, you get taxed 45.5% as an Australian citizen, and 47% as a foreigner. Crazy, eh! With paying for our hostel everynight, we also get
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