The Countdown Begins

Well actually, the countdown began months ago when Tom and I bought our tickets for Australia. We are getting so excited for our trip and we wanted to set up this blog for while we are gone. Even though we are only going to be there for a month, we thought it would be fun to have a way to communicate with everyone without trying to write emails the whole time we are there.

We are almost ready for our trip at this point. We have most of the supplies and are figuring out our hostels right now. We booked our hostel for Sydney and are working on our hostels for Brisbane and Cairns. Man even as I am writing this I get SO excited!!! When we get to Cairns it is a little more complicated because we are staying on a boat on the Great Barrier Reef for a night, so our hostel stay is split in half. But the hostel system is SO awesome for things like that so we're super excited.

Our plans are to fly into Sydney on our one year anniversary! YAY! We will stay there for a week or so. Then we will head up to Brisbane on a train. It is about a 12 hour train ride but we will get to see a lot of the country this way so that should be a lot of fun. After Brisbane we head up to Cairns!! That is going to be amazing. First of all we get to sleep on the Great Barrier Reef! And second: I am getting my scuba certification this month so we get to do five day dives and one night dive on the Reef! After Cairns we are flying back to Sydney and then flying home.

We are so excited for this time to see the country and get to know the people! It is going to be an amazing time for us as a couple too! As it gets closer to our trip and throughout our trip we will add more posts and keep you all updated! We would love your prayers for our journey! Thanks!