1/16/2013-1/17/2013

I have spent the past day and a half on the Indian-Pacific railroad.  It is a fantastic luxury train ride from the Pacific ocean to the Indian ocean.  We started in Sydney yesterday and went through the blue mountains, stopped at Broken Hill, and ended in Adelaide today.  The train continued on toward Perth this evening but we disembarked and stayed in Adelaide for the night at the Ambassador's Hotel.  Early tomorrow morning we will hop on a slightly less glamorous train bound for Melbourne.  The train ride that we have been taking for the past few days has had wonderful food, beautiful scenery, and great company.  Last night we were paired with a couple from the south coast of new south whales for dinner.  Then for lunch we ate with two single passengers one form Port Melbourne the other from Sydney.  The train ride was simply lovely and everything I could have imagined.  Adelaide is very hot right now so we walked around a bit but didn't get very far before the heat started to get to mom so we went to the pub next door for a pasta dinner and a litre of water.  Pictures to follow once we have better connections:)