sydney! (saturday)

saturday morning, some of us left bright and early in the morning to go the blue mountains.

it was about a two hour bus ride from our hostel to get to the mountains, but definitely beautiful!

they are called the blue mountains because when you look off in the distance there is a blue haze around them.

you can sort of see that in some of the photos..

this is a really awesome waterfall that was free falling off the top of one of the mountains!  it wasn't running down the rocks or anything, it was just falling from the top of the rock.  so cool!

after the first stop at the blue mountains we drove a little further and then got out and went on a bit of a hike!  we saw beautiful, open farmlands and then went climbing down through a cave and waterfall.  it was really hard to get pictures at this location, but it was so awesome!  the cave rocks were really wet, so we had to go barefoot so we wouldn't slip as easily and it was freezing!  we also had to walk through waters up to our knees to get over to the other side of the waterfall...BRR!!!  but it was so fun!

the last stop in the blue mountains was the "three sisters," which is three rock formations standing together.  the whole day was really breathtaking and doesn't look half as good in a photograph.

we got back to the hostel around 5pm and had about an hour to relax.  then we went out to a restaurant/bar/dance place for a "white party."  everyone had to wear white because there were black lights downstairs in the dance area.  it was lots of fun!