Erik and Erin in Australia

Erin and I just spent a great weekend out in the Blue Mountains. We had been there before with Kim, but the area is really nice, and we decided to go back out and stay for a few days.

I don't have any pictures from our most recent trip yet, so I'll post some shots from the first time we went out.

This rock formation is know as the three sisters. This is by far the most famous aspect of the blue mountains, and it gets most of the attention. All of the tour buses make this their main stop on their tours. When Erin and I were out walking on Saturday, there was a huge crowd of people within a ten minute walking radius of this area. Everywhere else we went was very relaxing because it was so empty. Any of the places that were accessible to people on tours were incredibly packed though.

Here is a shot of Erin and Kim being careful not to fall off the edge of a cliff in the Blue Mountains. They may not appreciate me posting a picture of one of their many comedic scenes, but I figure, hey, they posed for it.

You may be able to tell from the background that the "Blue Mountains" would be more aptly named the "Blue Rolling Hills". The whole area is really pretty, just not exactly mountainous.

I haven't posted any pictures from Sydney yet, so I figured I would put up a picture of the City's two big attractions, the Opera House and the Harbor Bridge. If you want, you can climb to the top of the bridge for what I am told is an incredible view. The only problem is that it costs $130, so I think that I will have to pass.

I haven't moved at all since my last update. I'm still in Sydney, and I've been keeping busy. I've done a bunch of different jobs since I've been here: I've dug holes at a construction site, installed computers, unpacked statues in an antique shop, sold accidental death insurance policy upgrades, checked in guests at a Tony Robins conference, and delivered furniture. Some of these jobs were pretty good but most of them were awful. The "find a good computer job" plan didn't go through as well as I had hoped it would. The 3 month limit on the working visa really limits your opportunities.

Erin has been keeping busy as well, spending some time working selling gardening equipment, and some time traveling with Matt. She is currently working in Newcastle, and I expect to see her tomorrow.

The main thing that I have been keeping busy with though is a business idea that a friend and I came up with. We have built a website that sends resumes to job agencies. The way it works is a user buys a login card for about $4 from a hostel or internet cafe, logs on to our site, writes an email, and attaches a resume. Our site then sends the email to each of the relavent job agencies in our database. We have about 180 job agencies listed in the Sydney area, and people who have used the service have gotten really good results. The technical part of the bussiness is ready to go, now it's just a matter of spreading the word, and convincing people to use the service. This part is turning out to be more difficult than I first thought it would be, but I have hope. I think that this has a lot of potential, so I'm working on this instead of doing a normal job.

If you know anyone who might be looking for a job in Sydney, please let them know about our site. www.resume-rocket.com The '-' in the address is quite important, because another company has a similar service at www.resumerocket.com, which doesn't make things any easier. It's frustrating that another company started doing something so similar at the exact same time we did. When we started, they didn't have a web page.

It doesn't look like we will be going to New Zealand. Which is really too bad. The lack of time and money is going to pretty much rule out a trip over there. There is still a lot of interesting stuff to see here in Australia though, so our last two months should be pretty exciting. Who knows, if I'm lucky I might end up spending my time setting up resume-rocket all over Australia.

In an effort to force me to update the web page, Scott scanned a buch of Kim's pictures, and emailed them to me. Here they are:

I call the following 3 picutre section "Erin in dramatic poses".

Thank you for the pictures Scott and Kim!