To Mudgee we go

Today we are off to Mudgee. We put off finding a host till the absolute last minute, but we still ended up getting lucky, or so we hope. We're going to a host that has a place in Bathurst and a B&B in Mudgee; we'll be going between the two. If it's good we'll stay for 2 weeks. You see, September is wine month in Mudgee and it's an ongoing festival. We work five hours in the morning and enjoy the wine region the rest of the day and night. I think all the vomit is out of my nose from the last bad bottle of wine we bought, and I'm ready to drink some more wine of the $10+ variety.

On a completely different note, we woke up this morning to find that somebody stole our granola at the hostel. We were all sorts of hungry and ready for breakfast, Jen goes out to the kitchen and it's not on our shelf. Where is it? We went to bed late, and it was there, got up earlier than anybody else and it's gone. Empty bag in the trash. So, so mean. You don't steal your hostel-mates granola!!! We shared a piece of toast for breakfast, and we're still pissed.

This post is going back in time. Yesterday we hiked Wentworth Falls pass. All the signs said in red lettering Experienced Walkers Only. (They say walkers, not hikers here.) We decided to pretend that we were experienced. When we had to go down caged stairways backwards and shimmy down a rock on a rope we thought that maybe we'd gotten ourselves into some trouble. But we didn't fall off any cliffs or anything. We got to pass through several waterwalls and got stunning view after stunning view. We'll put some pictures up soon.

The day before yesterday, we were still hiking and nearly had a tragedy. We were at a lookout point when I dropped the cap to the waterbottle and it rolled out a cliff edge, too far past the fence to grab it. I got down on the rock to shimmy out and grab it, but instead just laid on the ground because it was damn scary. Damn scary I tell you. But Jen was brave enough to do it. It was totally safe and she didn't have to shimmy far, but still. Scary. But we got the cap to the water bottle back and nobody fell off a cliff.