Camden Taaaaaan

Sunday 22nd
Today has been fairly lazy due to the fact it is boiling hot and super humid. We took a stroll up to macdonalds to do some online job/flight research as we still have yet to decide whether to head to NZ or Perth or both before flying home. After a frustrating hour of poor connection and shitty ice cream we walked back and had a long chat with Darren the manager of the park which ended up with some free ice pops, a list of the local hotels, bars, and who runs them, and an offer of free rent at the campsite in exchange for doing a bit of gardening every day. A successful conversation! I've found that with aussies, once you get them chatting it can be hours before they can be stopped. Its awesome.

Monday 23rd
Today we found jobs! Got up early (for us. It was more like 8.45) to go into town and follow Darrens advice to look for work in the hotels and bars in town. Turns out they are not at all busy or only open at 10am, so we ended up at the library looking on Gumtree for jobs. Great shout as it turns out - after about 5 emails to various people we got a reply from a vinyard that is handily located between Sydney and Tamworth (which is where we will be rocking out with The Hillbilly Goats for 11 days woohoo!)

 We are now relaxing in the kitchen, joined by some serious germans who have just cooked themselves a delicious meal of rice, fried ham and fried bananas. Mmmm?

Christmas Day!
We had a roast! In a tiny oven! And it rained all day, it felt just like home. Don't be fooled by those pictures of people having fun on bondi beach, because it was raining there, too.
It was nice to Skype our families today though, even if Dad did tell my my hair looked like a train crash. cheers.

 26th It's boxing day!
What does Baba want to do when we have not much money? Why, go to the nearest large shopping centre for the sales, of course!

We did stop off at the beach near Woollongong to make a sandsnowman though.

And a bar/brewery to have some beer of course, so my day was not a complete bust. 

27th, 28th

We have mostly been hanging around the campsite, trimming bushes occasionally and also going down to the library to take advantage of the wifi that they leave switched on 24/7.
We have made big plans for new years (watch the fireworks, go to a party on NYD) so we are just realaxing right now, as we go north straight after that to pick grapes and then be professional roadies for the one and only Hillbilly Goats, then who knows what will happen after that. The end of January is where our plans have come to a grinding halt. Something will probably come up..