Where have I been for two weeks?

Well, here's what I've been up to...
Darwin- I flew into Sydney and then hopped on a plane and went right up to where Berta lives—also known as the Australian Outback. It’s kinda like the restaurant, only a little different. For example, I saw lots of bloomin’ onions. Ok, not really. But I did see a spectacular sunset on the first night right after I got a tour of Darwin. It’s actually bigger than I thought, as there are many neighborhoods of the town. I think I was kind of expecting a small 3 stop light town. Definitely not a tiny hole in the wall town. But we did drive past one. Noonoomah is a town about 45 mins south of Darwin, and it has a gas station, a beer/liquor store, and a RV park. We drove past Noonoomah on our way into the outback, basically the middle of no where Australia. Which looked pretty much like the African bush.
So Berta and I went to Linchfield National Park. They have a couple waterfalls that we spent time at, and we slept out in the back of a true blue Australian truck. One of Berta’s friend, Nigel, let us borrow his truck and we drove it down about two hours to the park . We made sausage on the Barbie, and noodles on the trangia. Let me just say, a trangia is one of the most awesome camping stoves around. I think I may try to find one when I get back in the states. Other than swim in the waterfalls, cook meat on the Barbie, we basically just laid out under the stars. It was amazing. Out in the middle of no where Australia you can see probably a million, million stars. Sadly, I was not prepared and was not able to find the Large Megallanic Cloud, but I guess that just means I’ll have to go back to Australia another time.
Berta and I spent more time together around Darwin after our adventures in the outback. I had a chance to try Kangaroo meat and Crocadile meat. Both are very good. Crocodile looks and tastes like chicken only it is much more chewy or gummy. I also got to see lots of aboriginals using the digeradoo, which is that crazy sounding tube instument. Sadly, it’s very insulting in their culture for a woman to play the digeradoo, thus I did not get to try it.
After a lot of fun, and a lot of catching up, it was time for me to leave Darwin and travel down to Sydney. I stayed in Sydney for about 40 hours before leaving for London. I had basically one day to go around and see all of Sydney, thus I tried to do it all! I walked from my hostel through the Royal Botanical Gardens, out to the Opera House, around Circular Quay (warf), the Harbor Bridge, the Sydney Royal Observatory (really, did you expect anything less? Don’t worry, I got LOTS of pictures!), Bondi Beach (famous surfing beach), a 5K walk along the beach cliffs, and a performance by Sydney Symphony to end the day. That was day one. On day two in Sydney it was a Sunday so I decided to go to Hillsong Church. It’s a HUGE church that puts out some amazing praise and worship music, which is known around the world. I had a great time at church, and the most amazing thing was that they gave out these little bulletin/brochures. One of the articles in the booklet was about their women’s ministry, and who they were currently helping to support around the world. Oddly enough, the article was about the women of Gulu Uganda, and a church called Watoto located in town. The insane part is the church is about a quarter of a mile from our house. Well, time to go to bed, but I’ll write more about Gulu very soon!