Blue Mountains

Wow, I wish we had more time to spend there. It was absolutely stunning. I have always loved the mountains and these were even better than driving up Mount Washington in New Hampshire ;-). The only down side was that it was very touristy. It was the first place I have seen that so obviously catered to tourists that I wish we would have just rented a van and driven around on our own to see the parts of Australia that are off the beaten path. We have been saying that we are very poor tourists because we don't spend a whole lot of money (although the Australian economy has boomed since we have been here). We had to pay over $100 to ride one of those tourist double deckers just to get to the 3 Sisters which was less than 5 miles away from the train station where we got off. The girls had a wonderful time riding the cable car across the mountains and we walked around the rainforest floor before heading up to the 3 sisters where we had stunning views for miles around. A definite highlight of our trip.