More from Uluru

G'day to ya!!

So I have much more interesting things to post today... good news for all of you!

Yesterday after my relaxing day doing laundry and sitting reading New Moon by the poolside (getting a little sunburnt..), we went to a little thing called the Sounds of Silence. The coach picked us up from our hotel (after we ate some french fries fearing what dinner might be like for us picky eaters) and dropped us off in the middle of nowhere.

We walked up the sand dune and were handed a glass of champagne. We got to enjoy a beautiful sunset on Uluru, which turned a beautiful red, purple, and then blue. A guy was playing a diggeridoo(pathetic that still don't know how to spell that!) and we got to taste a little kangaroo jerky (which was oddly seasoned and really tough tasting..) and some crocodile (it tasted really lemony.. had a really odd texture).

After my second glass of champagne (and working on a third), we were escorted down to where we were to eat dinner. We got to sit at a table with a couple in their 30s from Adelaide here in Australia.. they had met here in Ayers Rock a year ago (the guy told me his is proposing this weekend..), some asian guy who laughed at everything we said, and an older couple from Texas who the man used to work for the Air Force. The table dynamics were great and the conversation flowed as much as the Australian wine, I had two glasses of..

Dinner was pretty good with Kangaroo that tasted like yummy steak and some roasted potatoes.. dessert was better, they had these brownies that were to die for!

A star talker came and talked about the stars. The couple from Adelaide already pointed out the Southern Cross to me, but the stars down here are absolutely amazing! The Milky Way is 10x brighter down here, and so is Orion. Plus they have a bunch and bunch of other constellations.. it was really awesome. We got to see Saturn and its rings, and then a Anangu man talked to Brian and I about some other stars that have meaning to the Aboriginals. It was so awesome.

After stargazing it was time to head back where I proceded to pass out..

It was a really great night followed by a very lazy morning. I am getting ready to read by the pool again (with tons of sunscreen on!!) and then tonight we will be heading to see the sunset over the Olgas.

I probably won't be back on until we get to Cairns tomorrow.. so I hope you all have a good day or 2!!

Adios!