Hehe.. I told you GeorgeW is in town right? Well, this morning he did two things: went to a museum for an hour and talked to the Australian opposition leader (and most likely winner of the federal elections in about 2 months time). Both times his motorcade of 20 cars totally stopped the traffic in the city. It's crazy! You know what this whole APEC meeting is costing Australia?! It was budgeted at 300 million AU$ (~250 million US$) but blew out by another 40 million when W decided to rock up 2 days early. Nutsnutsnuts!
Around midday or so, the team from "The Chaser's War on Everything" a comedy/satire TV show managed to get into the high security zone and all the way to W's hotel by driving around in a motorcade with Canadian flags without ever even being asked who they were. They were arrested when they got out of the cars and one of them was dressed as Osama. They can be hold now until Monday when APAC is over. I mean all they did was show that all these millions spent on W's security are completely useless because Osama could get in any minute if he wanted. Or alternatively, that it's not at all about terrorists (as the government says) but about pissing of protesters and keeping them away from "the international world leaders" so the Australian government can be proud.
This is all so crazy! Apparently restaurants within the security zone aren't allowed to leave knives and forks on tables. This is so totally over the top!

Can't wait to leave tomorrow and sit in my tent for a week and climb a bit and miss this stupid summit and give the city and uni and all this stress the finger!
- Oh yeah, I'll be out of internet and mobile coverage for about 9 days from Friday arvo, so don't be alarmed if I stop bugging you on Skype and gtalk ;) Unfortunately that means I'm probably going to miss out on my chance to be part of the world mooning record :(

I wish I could take you all camping - and climbing! And not be sick and impatient at the same time...

Hugs and kisses - jxx