I honestly can't believe it has gone so fast!... I mean it does feel as though i've been away from home for a while but not 5 months! So we have been in Oz 146 days, 21 weeks or nearly 5 months...and since we arrived as inexperienced backpackers on the 4th March 2007 we have had so many incredible experiences in this HUGE country! For instance...we had never heard of $2 beers, living on 2min noodles, bed bugs, 12hour bus journeys, Coles (the cheap supermarket)...we have learnt how to be unbelieveably stingey with our money, saying no to paying an extra couple of dollars per night to stay in a nicer hostel or smaller room! and we are quite used to going into pubs and clubs and asking for their cheapest drink! So since our
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