Feelin' Hot Hot Hot

Friday, December 16, 2005

Appears that the airport is the best internet spot, oh well.

Today started out with a 9 am flight to Cairns, which was very uneventful. We got to the airport and took a shuttle to the hotel. This was a very nice hotel, we had our own suite, with a washer and dryer and full kitchen. We also had our own private walkway to the pool. The receptionist at the hotel was the first nice Aussie that we had met our entire trip, turns out he is a Kiwi, along with his wife. Go figure!

He made all of our reservations for us, his wife even took us to our first stop, Skyrail to Kuranda. We took this 5+ km sky rail to a small hippie town. The first stop on the skyrail was to walk through the rainforest, then the second stop was at a waterfall, stunning. We then made it up to the top with enough time to do a little shopping, not much but it was still fun. It is so hot in Cairns that I feel like we are melting. We decided to get a banana smoothie for the trip back but their smoothies are absolutely disgusting, we threw them away. Instead, we got ice cream. We headed back to town on a train, through some tunnels and over bridges, very nice views, and very relaxing.

Once we made it back to the ground we took a shuttle back to the hotel and then we were off to the beach. It was about a two block walk where we picked up some supper and brought it back to the hotel to eat. It was way too hot to eat outside so we wanted to eat in the air conditioning. It is about 33 degrees here, figure out the farenheit. After we ate we sat by the pool for a little while and talked and then headed back in for a little tv and then bed early.

Tami