Nick and Natty do NYE by the harbour bridge...

Happy New Year everyone!!!

How bad are we! it's been almost 2 months and Nat is really sorry she hasn't been blogging...no but seriously big sorry for not updating you all on our whereabouts.

We had a great time after Laos travelling through Cambodia and back to Thailand and Chiang Mai. It was great to spend Nat's bday with our friends Bart and Inge ( the guys we did the trek with in Nepal) and as you've all probably seen Nat's prezzie to Christina went down like a treat! We then spent a few days on the most amazing desert island and hung out with Fran and Jennie in Chaing Mai ( old friends of mine from saudi ). Then that was it, we boarding the plane to Sydney and we said our farewells to the 'backpacking' part of our trip. We'd survived, both as individuals and as a couple! have some great memories and made some great friends along the way, but now it was holiday time. We met up with the rest of the Hough gang and have had a great time down under so far!

We rented a car and heading down the coast for a few days, we've done the Opera House, Zoo and spent New Year's Eve on the biggest balcony i've ever seen watching the fireworks over the bridge and all along the river. We've seen tom and Sarah, old friends from back home who I went to uni and lived with, went to the opening day of the test match and saw the Aussies colapse to 127 all out in an afternoon of play! drank lots of beer, visited the real Aussie beaches, not this Bondi and Manly rubbish. I jest really, we've had a great time and been shown around by Hannah and Sarah the cousins here, cooked for by the great Eric and Julie and been made a fuss of which has been great!!

So going forward, we have our tickets booked for the uk. Yes we have to go hom for a couple of weeks. We've been offered a job in korea and need to go do an interview with the consulate in London. Would have loved it if during the last 9 months that we've been looking at doing this, that someone had mentioned that we would have to do this. All the agencies said that we would have been able to do the interview over the phone...rubbish. Except that now we can go home , see family and friends and Luna of course and also get our winter clothes...urgh that last bit sounds nasty!!

Before all that we're going to Thailand again...we should have residency by now i reckon! and seeing mum and dad, Chris and Di too. It'll be great to see them all and spend a bit of time together although we'll be seeing them a few weeks after anyway!!

Anyway, please check out the flickr accounts in the next few days as we are putting a load of pics up from the last couple of months...finally got a connection that is pretty good!!

Love to everyone, and see some of you very soon! xxx

Nick and Nat
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