Day 4 : Travel to Homestay

(Sydney Harbor Bridge)

Woke up this morning in Sydney and packed up the bus for a long trip up the east coast of Australia to our Homestay families. Most of the kids will be in pairs or more with a local family. Each leader (there are five of us) is assigned our own home. People to People supplied wifi hotspots to our group so they are pretty quiet. We made a stop on the way and picked up snacks - lots of fun choices, but expensive! My diet coke was over $4!

Upon arrival in Coffs Harbor, we got to meet our Homestay families. I was paired with Marilyn who lives in the next city over. She explained her family to me on the way to her home and let me know her ex husband, Bob, would be joining us  for dinner and her current husband is out of town. They were both super sweet and we spent the evening laughing and talking about the U.S. & Australia. Bob was full of questions about politics in America and I did my best to answer them all honestly. We also talked about everything from the Amish and aboriginals to the various places we have all visited. We had lamb for dinner, which I don't know that I've had before. For dessert we had apple pie with custard. I couldn't explain frozen custard to them very well - what we had was like the custard you'd find in a Bavarian donut.