Anywho, best friend Dougie Phresh Albright came and visited us. Unfortunately, he too had flight problems and got stranded in Sydney because Qantas is dumb. He finally arrived and the Frobii parents, me, Hyatt and Doug all traveled to Dookie for a tour of the farms and dinner. I have no pictures of that, sorry.
Hyatt's parents departed and Hyatt, Dougie Phresh and I flew to Alice Springs for the roadtrip of a lifetime - p.s. we almost missed our flight, barely got our bags checked with about 1 minute to spare.
Unfortunately, Doug's luggage didn't make it but Qantas (who suck) gave him this nice pack of pajamas.
Arrival at the Alice Springs airport - happy and not yet really hot.
We HAD to play golf on another continent - it was awesome. Doug helped me with my long game
Our caddy who finally learned how to NOT drive on the greens.
After a short time in Alice we headed towards King's Canyon - via this road. Five hours of no pavement with Hyatt driving. I'll hold my tongue.
Wild horses aka brumbys were everywhere
Some of the beautiful secenery at King's Canyon
The initial climb at King's Canyon - very steep. Doug and I wanted to die.
Looking out over the vast Red Centre
He tried to pick me up for this picture - both Doug and I yelled 'No! What are you doing?!'
A little entertainment and gambling - nothing like bidding with
tea and sugar packets (Doug won btw).
Gorgeous sunset
First night at Alice Spring resort - the chefs.
K-S-U alumni in front of Ayers Rock/Uluru
It's a big freakin' rock in the middle of nowhere, literally.
Very dark red rock during sunset with some loser guy in my shot.
After an amazing time at Uluru (we climbed it, yea!) we headed to Coober Pedy where there is an abundance of opal mines and underground hotels but there is a shortage of water.
The entrance to our hotel - underground.
Hallway in underground hotel
Our cozy little room - we stayed pretty cool but the air got kind of stale since there's no windows.
Left Coober Pedy and it's 40 degree heat (that's 110 F) and went to the Barossa Valley, where we did some damage at Penfold's Winery. I discovered I really, really like dessert wine.
So that was our trip in a nutshell - it was RIDICULOUSLY hot the entire trip although it did rain occasionally. I took a ton of pictures of Uluru and King's Canyon so if you want to see them, look me up on thefacebook. Also, we visited a farm the last few days but Hyatt is going to blog about that (get excited)!
Until Hyatt blogs,
~ Buzzard ~
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