dry as a dead dingo's donger

Hello. I finally managed to find a civilised place and I've uploaded all the photos to date, which is very exciting because my camera is on its last legs and I was worried I would lose them all.
So first of all I need to show you some pictures from the rest of Malaysia and Singapore.
Here's Zoe and a twin tower (the other one's behind it) and here they are by day. And here's the moment I turned into my bird form, during a trip to Kuala lumpur aviary.
Now, the pictures of the Malaysian space institute/museum thing are truly spectacular. It's an informative and educational building in KL. No expense was spared on building the place.
This is me in the zero gravity simulation. I forget the exact wording but the next exhibit was described (approximately) thus. "Black holes are just a theory. Nobody has ever experienced one, but this simulation is the nearest any human being is likely to get."
This is the simulation they were talking about. Note how in that picture Zoe is very tall. At the other end of the room she is very short. We're not sure how this compression of matter occurred but it was very clever. Without wishing to dwell too much on the space museum, I have to show you this vision of the future. If you look closely there is a plastic burger in it which lights up when you press the button. I took this photo especially for Alison, and Star Trek fans all over the world.
And for sleaze fans, here is a squaddie admiring a malaysian girl dancing on a table, and this is the malay rock band we saw in Kuala Lumpur. You may not be able to pick it out from this photo but despite all being men, the drummer looked like Alison from Big Brother, the guitarist looked like Joan Armatrading, and the singer was Tanita tikaram.

So, whizzing through Singapore we have Martinis in the Fullerton, Singapore Slings in Raffles, another drink somewhere flash, a statue of Boy George, a monkey that looks like Alison's cat, some hindi things, a nice tiger, some temple or something, and a merlion.

So now we're in Australia. We started off in Adelaide which to be honest was a bit dull although we had a comedy incident involving a pedalo and a huge fountain which resulted in this lovely rainbow. Just outside adelaide was mount lofty, Steph we took this photo for you. And a volcano with a big blue crater.
So we hired a car and basically spent a week drivling from Adelaide to Melbourne, through some absolute nowheresvilles, lobster ports and the like, from Southern Australia to Victoria, then along the great ocean road and Victoria's surf coast.

The Great ocean road was beautiful. I'll let you browse the photos by yourselves, if you can be bothered, but here is one of the twelve apostles, (which are rocks). We stayed in a couple of gorgeous beach/fishing towns which apparently all the rich and famous live in, a bit like Saint tropez. Here is an example of the houses. This dilapidated old one was for sale. Most triumphantly, I learnt to SURF in a place called, bizarrely, Torquay. Contrary to the usual male rules, the better you are, the smaller your surfboard, hence this baby. Here I am happily surfing along and about to kill some kids. And thanks to Zoe's mastery of the telephoto lens, here I am drowning. I came away from the day surfing grazed and bruised but very happy and we celebrated with a bottle of wine.

The day after that we drove up to and finally arrived in Melbourne which we LOVE and it's where we are now. Thanks to a tremendous fluke the Australian Open is on, (this is a picture of it that I took from the top of the rialto tower) and it's 10 mins walk from our hostel. This is not where the fluke ends - we went yesterday on a cheapo ground pass and Amer Delic was playing first thing on an outside court and we watched him for four hours in an amazing 5 set marathon* complete with rowdy bosnian supporters who were shouting "I'm blind, I'm deaf, I wanna be a ref" at the umpire for most of the match. For those of you who remember this episode, Amer Delic is the guy I got a bit obsessed with at Wimbledon this year (due to some spectacular tantrums) and subsequently became friends with on facebook. Here he is taking his top off. (Look how close we were sat!!)
Oh and we saw some women playing doubles as well, apparently these two are famous sisters...
Everyone is obsessed with the tennis obviously, you can even watch it in the town square, which also has some cool modern buildings.
Got lots more to do in Melbourne but just in case you're not bored of tennis pictures yet, here is me, here is Zoe, this is the Margaret Court Arena (because it couldn't be called the Margaret Court Court, which I find hilarious).
And here is someone playing tennis. ahem.

*He lost