We have had to pleasure of hosting some friends from Canada- Jacy and Sophie! For those who don't know, I have been friends with Jacy since High School (which I can't believe grad was already 7 years ago!). He was my first friend to get married to the lovely Sophie. Before they made the trek to the desert, I had only meet Sophie a few times since they had been living in Toronto and I was out east. Needless to say, what an amazing women, but an even better couple. Tony and I can't say that we have spent too much time with other couples over the years, but we can't wait to spend more time with our foodies Jacy and Sophie!
When they arrived we rented a car (and happend to acutally get the time off!) so we were able to spend lots of time around the resort. We started with some grub at Geckos (the casual restaurant in town Tony used to work at) before heading out to KataTjuta! We decided that it would be good to start with the Walpa Gorge before relaxing for the sunset. We then went to the Outback BBQ for some dinner, where we grilled our own (and I mean Tony and Jacy grilled) bbq dinner! It was lots of fun! This was also the first time that Sophie got to see the mice. That's right, the Northern Territory is having an infestation of mice at the moment. Yeah we know it's gross, but there is nothing we can do about it. It's not that the place is dirty, it's just that they are all over the desert. We have now killed 22 in our house...yeah again, we think they are gross but it's just that they are everywhere in the desert right now!
The next morrning we did the super early sunrise at Uluru before doing a few of the walks. IT was great, we brought Lisa, a girl I work with, and she had sooo much knowledge on the stories to go with the walks! Super fun! In the afternoon, we randomly decided that we would go to Alice Springs. What a fun decision! We stayed at the Chifley there and were able to relax, go out for some amazing Indian food (especially for the desert!), and relax. In the morning we didnt realize that we had parked right on the start line for the bike race...talk about imbarassing! hahahaha at least it was a great story! hahaha
Tony had to go to work that avo (aka what the aussies call afternoon) so we decided to go out to the camel farm, and then out to the national park agian. We went back because we were hunting wild camels and dingos. Got luck to see wild camels at the dune sunset area for Kata Tjuta but no dingos there....driving back we were talking about them and boom, dingo on the road! hahaha as if! IT was great, dont' worry I didnt hit it!
The next day they left back to Perth and we had to get back into the swing of being in the desert and working! What a great few days, that still seem a little unreal that we got to hang out with some amazing friends in such a unique place!
PICS TO COME!!!!!
