We moved on to Sydney

After an amazing 3 days at Uluru, we hopped back on a plane (actually a really nice plane with screens in every seat and lots of movies) and headed to Sydney.  It was a bit of a culture shock from the start.  Coming from the calm and peaceful outback, with very few people, and lots of red dirt, to the largest city in Australia, all people and all concrete.  It took us a little while to get out of the airport and find a shuttle where we both fit (everything was over crowded), but once we did, it took us right to the door of our new hostel.  This was way different than any of the other hostels we had stayed in.  Well, actually, no hostel we stayed in was at all the same.  In Melbourne, we stayed 4 nights in a 13 person dorm room with people to had been staying there for quite a while and in a hostel that was old, but with a lot of character.  In Uluru, we were staying at a lodge that just happened to have air conditioned multi-bed spaces; we stayed in a 20 room dorm there, but it was much nicer than in Melbourne.  In Sydney, we arrived to Wake Up!, a hip and active city hostel.  Lori and I were definitely feeling a little too old to be staying in this hostel.  haha...  But we met some really great people and we were only in a 6 bed dorm, which made everything much better.  We wandered around china town and found really cheap and large portion Chinese food.  So good!!  Then we toured the city and made it to the best part, the Sydney Opera House and Harbor Bridge.  They were also filming for the show Ellen across the inlet.  That's all they had been talking about on the radio for the week and all we heard the whole time we were there.  In all we spent 2 nights in the city center before heading to the beach.  Our new favorite home.  :)