Australia Here We Come!!!!

I am SOOOO excited to finally be writing on this blog again. It's been TOO long since my last travel adventure. I caught the travel bug almost three years ago in Europe and since then have been planning this trip to Australia. I am going with two friends, that live in Canada, that I actually met on that trip in Europe. We just clicked and spent most of the Europe trip together and since then they have come to visit me when I was in NYC, and I went to visit them in Canada. My friends will be gone for 2 months, I will only be "down under" for two weeks, and will try to update this blog as much as possible while over there with details about my days! We will be starting in Melbourne and traveling up the east coast of Australia. I will be leaving the Canadians (Maxime [Max] & Melissa [Mel]) in Brisbane to head back to reality, while they will continue traveling up the east coast to see the Great Barrier Reef, then jet off to New Zealand for a few weeks. I am sad that I cannot do the whole trip with them, especially see the Great Barrier Reef, however now I have a reason to go back ;) However, I am so excited that I can go, even if only for a little bit. We will be stopping in several beach cities, since it's currently the middle of the summer, hopefully surfing, and snorkeling along the way. We made several friends in Europe that live in Australia, so we will have wonderful tour guides, and in a few cities wonderful hosts, letting us crash at their houses. The trip is very laid back, we have a start and end point, and a few deadlines of dates we must be places, but if we love Sydney, we might stay there 4 days instead of 2! That's the great part of "backpacking" through a country, it's very flexible. I am SO excited for this trip, and to get to spend time with Max and Mel again. I will update the blog as much as I can while over there, but will defiantly give a full recap as soon as I get back! <3 Bye for now