Sydney Botanical Gardens

I love this tree. It looks like something you'd see in Fangorn Forest.

BATS

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These are fruit bats. There are a couple thousand of these gigantic critters in the Sydney Botanical Gardens. Definitely going to spend some time here. And wear a hat.

Our fancy hotel

This is the Sydney Mercure, where we'll be staying.

Quite posh.

We're off to Oz...

In 59 days, I'm crossing something major off my Bucket List. Something I've wanted to do since I was about 6 and discovered a book about crazy venomous snakes.

So now, my Bucket List will look a bit more like this:

• have a job
• finish my PhD
• visit Australia

I'm heading Down Under!