I stayed in the Blue Mountains this weekend, Friday-Sunday, with my Outdoor Education class.  Each day counted as a class too, which was pretty awesome.  The first day we headed to Katoomba, which is probably the most famous part of the Blue Mountains, mainly because of the Three Sisters.  That's the top picture I posted a few days ago and you're right, it doesn't look like much.  The Three Sisters are three large rock formations that somewhat jut out of the cliffs.  They look cool, but there are other rock formations and cliffs that look the same if not better.  But it is the aboriginal history behind it which draws the attention.  The story goes that there was once a man with five daughters who lived in the area.  He knew a monster was coming and would kill all the people, so he decided that to save his daughters, he would turn them into stone.  He obviously didn't know about erosion and only three still remain.  Anyways, we hiked for a few hours, and made it to a stair case that ran up and overlooked the Three Sisters.  A friend and I decided to run to the top.  I'm in decent shape and I was out of breath, my run was little more than a crawl as we reached the top.  Our teacher let us know though that we had climbed 1/27 of Mt. Everest, making us feel a little better.  Although the Three Sisters were lackluster, the views, anywhere in the Blue Mountains are outstanding.  Picture the Grand Canyon with a rain forest inside of it.  The trees thrive in the valleys, a ton of moisture can remain inside of them, allowing the bush to take over.  After the hike we headed out to our cabins.  I thought we were somewhat roughing it, but it was far from it.  I shared a cabin with five other guys.  These cabins were heavily accommodated, fridge, stove, oven, shower, bathroom, everything.  So people went over board a bit and bought copious amounts of food. This one kid bought a shotput size ball of fresh mozzarella.  We had a fire grill outside, which was really handy so we got that going as soon as we got there.  We basically ate sausage all weekend, again, everyone unnecessarily bought there own sausage, we probably had fifty between us all.  At night, the class, which was about forty of us, sat around a big campfire and reminisced about what we had done that day. 
In the morning I woke up early, hopefully to catch some Kangaroos grazing, but unfortunately I didn't see any.  The morning was quite gorgeous though, we were positioned at the bottom of a valley, so the sun would crest out over the cliffs, casting beams through the moist air and onto the trees and grass.  That day, we did a longer hike, which was enjoyable, but a little slow at times.  Again, we made it back to the cabins, hung around, made a big fire, and relaxed, another good day. 
The last day was probably the best.  We headed out for another hike, this time moving down, curling around a waterfall.  There were some rock stairs cut into the cliff, a few ladders, even rope to help you slide down some rocks.  The waterfall, just kept going, hitting a large pool, filling it up, and then moving down over the edge to create another.  Finally, we ended up at the last pool of the waterfall.  A bunch of us decided to take a swim under it.  The water was freezing, probably about 50 F.  You could feel your lungs tighten just as it hit your stomach.  But it was well worth it, looking up under the cascading water, watching the blue sky and clouds slowly roll over the cliff that overwhelmed you.  After, we headed back up, catching a few more waterfalls along the way.  People were actually abseiling over and into the waterfalls which I thought was awesome.  Every time, looking over my shoulder at the endless trees in the valley, I got a distinct urge to go hang gliding, it seems like the perfect spot.  So I'm going to look into that.  And that was my weekend in a nutshell.  This week, heaps of Uni work. Woo!