Saturday, a few of us woke up early (8am, pretty early after clubbing the night before!) and got breakfast before getting in a 12 passenger van and driving for 2 hours to the Blue Mountains. We got there and immediately went to Echo Point, this overlook spot where you can see the whole valley, it was really pretty, but the weather wasn't great. It was really overcast and drizzly. Then we got some lunch and drove another hour or so to get to Jenolan Caves. The road to get there was so twisty, and parts of the road near the end was only big enough for 1 car to get through, but it was still 2 way traffic. It got a little scary sometimes. We did the Lucas Cave tour which was about an hour and a half and consisted of about 1000 stairs. It was really cool though. After the tour was finished, we drove back to our hostel in Katoomba. We checked in and got our keys and chilled for an hour or so. Then we walked to a pub for dinner, except the pub was completely dead. There were 3 old people eating in there before we got there. Then all of a sudden, a group of 16 showed up and the bar tender/ owner person didn't know what to do with himself. The food was pretty good, and we hung out for a while. Slowly, we all left and went back to the hostel. We ended up watching Toy Story 2 in the tv room, and I forgot how great that move is! Afterwards, we just took over the tv room hanging out and goofing off. Then sleep, finally.
Sunday, we had to check out of the hostel by 10am, so we woke up just before 9 to get a shower. After we checked out, we went to a nearby grocery store to buy stuff for breakfast and went back to the hostel to eat it. then when we went to leave for Scenic World, the van's battery was dead, so we had to wait in the hostel again while waiting for a mechanic. Then Chris, who drove his own car to the blue mountains, realized that he could just shuttle people to scenic world (it was only about 4 minutes away) while waiting for the van to get a jump start. I was in the first group to head over there, along with Desiree, Claire and Megan. We got there, decided what we were going to do, which was take the railway down (the steepest in the world! parts of it are a 52 degree incline) the valley, then walk around a bit down there, then take the stairs back up. Luke, the guy who organized the trip, told us that he would call us when the van was ready at scenic world and when to meet back up. Well, non of us realized that we weren't going to have any cell phone reception in the middle of a rainforest. In short, none of us got the text message saying to meet back up at the van at 1pm. We took the stairs (all 1200 of them!) back up, it was really exhausting. Quite the workout! We got to the top and we were all sweating, despite the fact that we all has sweaters and coats on before the climb and proceeded to take hem off layer by layer during the climb. The views were well worth it! Well we got back to the top at 1:45pm. Then all of the text messages and missed calls came flooding into our phones. Everyone else had been waiting for us in the van for almost an hour. Needless to say, we felt really bad, but they didn't hate us, so it's ok. Everyone else took the railway down and the cable car back up, so they took a lot less time then we did. When we finally got back, we left right away and I proceeded to fall asleep within half an hour of driving, and I slept the entire way home. All in all, it was a really fun weekend, and quite the bonding experience with everyone who went!
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| All of the girls that went to the Blue Mountains |
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