Blue Mountains

Just a quick post from the Blue Mountains! (We have free internet at this hostel, although facebook is blocked!)

We are staying in Katoomba (right in the Blue Mountains). It is a very cute little town with lots of hills throughout. We spent one night at my favourite hostel ever, No 14. It is like a cute little wooden mountain cabin/lodge. There are rooms with fireplaces (it's colder here than on the coast) and comfy couches, and I was very excited to see they had PUZZLES so I started one last night :). They even have a bathtub! (That doesn't look gross.) And the shower stalls look like saunas. Oh, and there's an oven too, which is rare in hostel kitchens we've been to. Very interesting, friendly people too. Enough about the hostel...

Yesterday we went for a 3 hour hike from Echo Point (lookout for the 3 Sisters), down by the 3 sisters, down the "Giant Staircase", i.e. a 1000 step staircase of small, steep, warn down rock steps down into the valley (Mike had to walk down sideways because his feet hung too far off the edge of them), through the rainforest, and back up another giant, less sketchy staircase, and back along the top ridge of the cliffs (nice lookout points). It was raining the whole time (thank god for our amazing waterproof jackets!) but I think that it was more gorgeous seeing it in the rain. It really was beautiful. I am on a very slow computer right now so I can't put pics up now. Heading back to Sydney this morning for the remainder of our trip. (Already have spent one day and night there.) Wish I could have more time up here for more hikes, but I think I may have already killed Mike on the last one :).