Monday, April 6, 2009

a little more for you all!!

so hopefully everyone who's interested has now had the chance to read my other massive post.. so I shall give you a little more now (it is also taking me ages to write this whole thing)

March 7th: (still in rainbow beach)

Finally got to sleep in today.. oh wait what am I talking about, I convinced Alexi to go do the dolphin feeding with me at Tin Can Bay… which was cool and I now get to say I’ve fed a dolphin but it really wasn’t worth the 20$ it cost to get there with the tour boat. Oh well. We then got back to the hostel in time to say goodbye to everyone, most ppl were leaving but due to the Oz bus schedule we had a nice day off in Rainbow beach where we mostly lazed around and tried to recover from the 3 day adventure that was Fraser island. At night though we went with Andreas to find the sand blow which was gorgeous. We bought a box of goon obvi. And set ourselves down to watch the sunset. There was also a boy sandboarding there.. so I tried it.. well for 2 seconds and then decided it would be funner to use it as a sled and go super duper fast.. this caused me to bust my toe which I did not really realize until the next morning because I was wearing trainers. We also got to try some rope swinging into the sand. Fun times.

“Alexi.. can I go to bed now”

March 8th:

Got up to catch the 8am bus to Noosa. We hadn’t booked any place to stay yet and the oz driver kinda freaked us out but we managed to book a place at the YHA which is right near the beach. He also told us about a game we can play in Noose called “spot the fake body parts”. The hostel was gorgeous and we found our room.. and then I proceeded to take off my trainers which is when I realized that my baby toe had swollen double the size and was a lovely shade of blue.. all this after we had already booked a surfing lesson for that arvo (afternoon) haha. So I toughed it out… Alexi and I went to explore Hastings and then got picked up to go to our surfing lesson around 1. I can’t say surfing was my type of thing.. it was quite painful and I tore up my foot even more and plus it was exhausting. I did manage to stand up a few times but well I blame my lack of upper body strength in my many failures.

After the exhausting lesson we made our way up the giant hill to pick up some groceries (obvi: pasta and tuna yum yum yum).

We headed back to the hostel for a welcoming free wine, made our dinner and went to bed pretty early… like 9pm haha. The constant traveling and partying had finally started to hit us....HARD!

March 9th:

We took the shuttle bus this morning around 8:30 to the Australia zoo. It took about an hour to get there but there whole time we got to watch some movies about Steve Irwin and also some of his crocodile hunter movies!! The zoo was quite awesome… I forgot to take my camera which in a way was good because I didn’t get to capture one of our only rainy days and well I took time to admire the animals instead of trying to get the best shot.

We got to see many massive crocs and also watch the croc show twice in the crocoseum wooohooo (this included a bird show and euh other cool talks). We had seen everything there was to see a long time before the bus was suppose to leave.. hence why we went to the croc show twice. More pasta, explored hastings street and treated ourselves to some delicious ice cream and again an early night.

March 10th:

Caught our last Oz bus from Noosa to Brisbane. We got there around 2ish, checked into the Xbase palace and then walked around downtown looking for a new cell phone and a camera for Alexi. More pasta and tuna…we then finished off our bit of goon and headed down to the hostels bar for ladies night.. meaning lotsa free drinks. I got to throw rings onto bull horns for the chance to win a glass of wine or beer woooo!!! We did loads of dancing.. highlight the ladies man (ok well most men were dressed up as women because I guess it ment they also got some free drinks)

March 11th:

I was exausted all day today, we just did some internet time, packing up of our stuff, walking around the downtown again a little.. and my highlight finding a sour apple slushie which I am now in love with. And for lunch we spoiled ourselves with some shawarma… (it contained corn which didn’t make me to happy). We then took the train to the airport pretty early so that we could just be lazy there and then took our flight to Darwin at 9pm wawaweee. We finally landed at 12:30ish I think… got the shuttle to our hostel (the cavanagh) where there is suppose to be a 24 hr reception. WRONG.. ok well we lay infront of the reception for a while until some guy that was clearly high came by and told us he would look out for the night guy and send him over.. the night guy finally drove up and said he locked the keys inside the reception.. was a little frantic.. asked us if we could read some number inside the reception for him (which we couldn’t ) and then drove off again claiming he would try and find a key. Next an old drunken man shows up saying “ I bet you havn’t had sex tonight” and luckily at this time a lady showed up that works there (who had hurd from man locking his key inside) and came to save us. So much confusinon for one night.. oh and I wasn’t even in there system but they stuffed me in a room with Alexi! Wooo… we were finally settled in just after 2am. Good Night!

March 12th:

Woohoo we got to sleep in again and then off we went to “downtown Darwin” to brave the immense heat and do a few errands and phone home. I don’t think I’d ever sweat so much in my life when I phoned me parents from a public phone on the street and I was literally dripping sweat ( I know this is all a lovely image you all wanted to have), it was disgusting, even down my leg there was drips coming out below my short line (no i wasnt not peeing in my pants thanks). We got everything done and then hung out as long as we could in our air conditioned room before making some dinner. We then met our new room mates, one of the Michiel who amazingly enough was also doing the 9 day tour and then flying to Melbourne the same day as moi. Woohoo!!then there was more confusion when a girl tried to come and find a bed in our room that was already full (because i hadnt been put in the system and they just put me in a room with Alexi there was mass confusion on the staff) Alexi and I then went down to the bar to have one last beer together before going to bed. What a lovely trip we had together. Now on to part dos of the trip

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