More trip pics - Blue Mountains and 'roo overload!

Again, I've lost the will to cut down on all of my photos, so you'll have to skim through them yourself - so sorry.  I'm sure you can forgive me, my 2012 kicked our butts :)  Moving on - who wants some fuzzy kangaroo therapy?  I do, I do!!!

After Sydney, we rented a car and drove to the "nearby" mountains - called the Blue Mountains due to the Blue Mist that rolls in from the Eucalyptus leaves.  And by nearby, the locals mean "the traffic is horrendous and you will sit in bumper to bumper traffic but because you're driving on the wrong side of the road you'll be grateful you're going only 10 kph".  Rob was such a rockstar driving a car on the other side of the road AND managing the crazy streets of Sydney - it was a white knuckle ride for a while, fo' sure.

Anyhoo, on the way up to the Blue Mountains, we had read that there is a great place to see wild kangaroos just off the beaten path and so we ventured out and I'm soooo glad we did - we hit the kangaroo jackpot!!!  Rob and I hiked to a clearing, it was so quiet, all you could hear were the sounds of the forest and then we saw all these beautiful kangaroos including a mama and her adorable joey!!!  It was heavenly - we stayed for over an hour just watching them.

This is by far one of my favorite pics of the trip, I mean, couldn't you just die of cute overload?

Here's Mama and her baby showing off their bouncing skills...

And the joey had some crazy zooms just like a cat or dog does - so dang funny!

It was hysterical, as we were going "awwwwww" over the Mom and baby, we noticed that a total fight had broken out between two of the dudes - it was so dang funny to watch because (1) they totally didn't seem serious and (2) they fought like girls.  Like trashy girls straight out of the Jersey Shore or something.  You'll see what I mean.  The fascinating thing was watching them hold themselves up on their back tails - they could support their whole weight!!!  In the 2nd video, it's hysterical, they take a time out mid-fight.  It's exhausting being so bitchy.

Anyhoo.  After all the oogling of 'roos, we kept driving and it was crazy how the thick fog hit so quickly - by the time we arrived at our hotel, we could barely see 30 feet - thank God for GPS (we nicknamed our GPS chic Deila for Dumb Dumb Shiela, she sure did take us some funny places over the trip).  We had chosen our hotel because it within walking distance of Echo Point, the scenic overlook of the famous 3 Sisters rock formation, but the fog was so super duper thick, there was no way to see anything!  

 We were bummed, but rallied with an awesome dinner in the adorable quaint town - and it was the coolest - in the morning, the fog slowly burned off while we were at breakfast and then TA-DA!!!  There they were - glorious!!!

After a gorgeous brief hike to a waterfall, we took a terrifying cablecar (thank goodness for my vertigo meds, eh?) to the bottom of the valley and walked around the ancient ferns, it was glorious.

Here's a link to all of our pics - you can either watch them via slideshow from our blog or click on them to go straight to our Picassa Blue Mountains album.