The Bro Trip

We arrived at Alice Springs yesterday, which is a small town of 27,000 in the heart of Australia. We flew over the famous red sand but Alice Springs itself is actually quite green at the moment due to the massive amount of rain the city has had. It's now 35 degrees here in the middle of the desert but luckily we have a pool at our hostel! Score! Within 2 hours of arriving in Alice Springs we were already lying by the pool and soaking up the sun. This is the life!

The red desert of North Australia.

This is how happy we were to be in Alice Springs.

Our last days in Adelaide we not very productive due to the terrible weather. However we did squeeze in one more day at the beach (before the bad weather came) and a free tour of Haigh's Chocolate Factory which included free samples! Haigh's is an Australian chocolate which produces exclusively for it's 13 stores across Australia. Most of the work is done by hand and we watched as they wrapped the chocolates individually, hand dipped the truffles and decorated the chocolates one by one. We got to taste their milk and dark chocolate, chocolate coated almonds and rasberry chocolates. Liz was forced to buy a selection of truffles to taste what we had seen in production.

Chocolate everywhere! And all of these were handmade!

Mmm... chocolate.

We are planning on doing lots of swimming and sunbaking here and of course we are going to see Ayers Rock tomorrow! It costs a whopping $200 per person though, but we're spending the day seeing Ayers Rock and the surrounding area. Hope it's worth it. We're flying back to Melbourne on 20th and spending 2 weeks there. After that, on the 4th of february, we are coming home.

/M, C & L