Meegan and Jen's Australian Adventures

Arriving in Darwin (late in the evening as per usual), Pixie and I really had no idea what to expect. The people at the airport were really quite rude, not a good start! We arrived at the end of the wet season, and boy when it rains there is rains, but the best part is your don't wear anything to stop yourself from getting wet. INfact you welcome it! Apon our arrival to the hostel we discovered that we had the wrong pin number to get our key to our room. HOwever a nice man there offered us a chill out session, and eventually we managed to work everything out.
Very quickly Pixie and I decided it was best not to go walking around at night in Darwin, the attmosphere was not pleasant or safe, and the aboriginals have a real dislike for the white man. It is a crazy cultural story (ask me about it when I get back, I have been looking into it quite abit).
The humidity was unbelievable, we spent many hour laying in shaded areas spread out completely because if anything on your boy touch anything else you were dripping in sweat there (literally!!). To escape the heat we actually went to two movies, the incredibles and finding neverland. Both excellent movies in their own way.
We did manage the one tour of Litchfield park (see earlier update), and on another day we went for a walk to the botantical gardens and one of the beaches (which we could not swim at because of the deadly box jellyfish thingy's). Other than that we basically spent most of our time in Darwin chilling out... playing cards in the pool with our waterproof cards... reading... and generally doing as little physically as possible (us Canandian girls were in way over our heads with that heat!).
The hostel was halarious, the people were the most wide selection we had seen yet. The kitchen was without walls (a roof though), and looked out on the pool (don't be fooled by the pool talk, still sketchy!!). We had to go outside to get to..well anywhere, including bathroom and showers. THe airconditioners in the rooms only came on around 8pm and turned off around 8am... so even our rooms were no escpae during the hot days. I swear we have never sweat so much in our lives (mmmmm, highly attractive I know, but was it too much info...)
We did manage to make it out to a bar on our second last night in town... THere was pool, there was alot of dancing, drinking, and a shit load of Australian and American army boys... so in general a crazy time (The sun was defiantly up when I made it to bed).
We were up at 3:30am to catch our flight to Cairns...
So Darwin, you may be alittle scary, and alot hot, but you will always have a place in both our hearts...