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11/02/09
Got on the bus at just after midnight thinking that it was fully booked and we would all be allocated seats. When we got on we were ecstatic to find that there were hardly any people on yet so we all got double seats to ourselves. After we'd been sitting down for a minute and all got into comfy sleeping positions some random girl asked me if the seat next to me was taken, I replied with in a pretty non friendly fassion hoping she would find somewhere else to sit but she plonked her arse down right next to me. After 10 minutes of driving she was fast asleep leaning right over my side and her hair was brushing me in the face every time we went round a left hand corner. I endured about 3 hours of this before we had a break. I got off desperate to have a piss but when I arrived at the toilets there was some guy cleaning them, who the hell cleans public toilets at gone 3 in the morning! I had to wait for him to finish, nearly wetting myself in the process. I got back on the bus and surprisingly the girl that was sat next to me was not there any more. I heard the bus driver ask if everyone was on before we left, but didn't bother to tell him, surely she must have just moved to another seat. It's definately not my fault if she's stranded in a petrol station in the middle of nowhere. I managed to sleep until about 6:30 then was woken up to the bus drivers announcement, which was actually a very good one, he was sincerely thanking us for visiting his country and wished us all luck with our future.
We got off the bus at Fingerboard Road and got the shuttle back to 1770. It was raining when we arrived, and the guy in the shuttle bus was blaring out some really s*** dance music that made me feel like shoving my foot through the stereo just to stop it. Checked in at Cool Bananas. Really good hostel, they put on a buffet of free cake, the kitchen is really nice and the rooms, showers and toilets clean. They have a communal room with a TV and plenty of board games to play. We spent the start of the day buying food for later and organising greyhound busses and flights for the remainder of our trip. A lot of hassle when you're shattered. When all the boring organisation was sorted we decided to go for a wander to the beach to play rounders. After one rotation we were all pretty nackered, then on the third I bowled a ball to Coops who then decided to smash the ball straight in to her own face, it sounded pretty painful, but she shrugged it off quite well. We then went in to the sea, braving the jelly fish, and I decided to go for a bit of a rock climb around the cove to see what was there. It was pretty boring, just dead coral and rocks, when I got back everyone had gone so I walked back to Cool Bananas and it pissed it down on the way back.
In the evening we watched Bruce Almighty in the TV room. Coops then went down the road for a yoga session while we watched Fight Club and cooked Kangaroo Risoles with mash and peas. They tasted a lot like lamb burgers. We then decided to have a go at playing Cluedo even though Pat had only ever played once before and guessed it right on his first go and had no idea how to play and Coops hated the game. The first game was over on Pats second go after he guessed it correctly after making an assumption about something Coops had done. The second game was just ridiculous, Pat started, he put Rev. Green in the Conservatory with the Lead Piping and no one showed him a single card, he managed to guess it right on his first go again! We wanted to play again, but Pat was getting irate for some reason because he always seemed to win, so he sat out after much arguing. We had a good game going until Burns asked if it happened in the Library, I forgot I had the Library card so he had a guess and obviously got it wrong, whoops. Never going to play cluedo again!
12/02/09
Woke up to Helen poking me in the back telling me it was 9:15 so I got up and Helen, Pat and I went to the surf shop to enquire about surfing lessons. It was so hot and sunny, I was loving it, had to go and buy some zinc cream for my nose because I wasn't up for burning it again. Sat around for a while then were told that there was no surf today so we couldn't have a lesson. Went back to the room, Helen broke another pair of flip flops on the way, and got our stuff to go to the beach. On the way back we bumped in to the three guys from Oxford that we met in our room in Magnums. I applied some of the zinc to my nose before leaving, I'd picked up the wrong one though, it was some nasty looking brown paste, and I put far too much on, enough to cover my face, I looked like a twat. We spent the morning laying on the beach chatting to the guys and seeing who was brave enough to stay in the sea for the longest braving the jellyfish. The sun was out the entire time! On the way back we realised that Pat had burnt his back yet again and the girls had very red chests.
When we got back we were hassled by a guy that was dishing out free facials, we were a bit dubious to begin with but in the end we all, except Burns, had some weird facial paste stuck on our faces. We washed it off 20 minutes later, Coops didn't do a very good job of it, she had it all over the place. Then we set up scrabble outside, as we were about to begin the facial guy started preaching to us about how we should all live how our grandparents did and stop buying mass produced foods etc. from the big coorperations. To be fair he had a good point, but he took it way too far when he started telling me that all you've got to do is read the Bible and you can see that people used to live for a 1000 years back then, and that recent natural/herbal remedies have cured hundreds of thousands of people with Aids. When I questioned how they managed to get their CD4+ cells back he came up with some bulls*** about chewing grass and mashing cannabis seeds in to a paste. Eventually he left so we could play scrabble. While we were playing we started talking along the lines of natural remedies and Pat told us all about his gran, he said "my grans 97...she's got a nice body". We couldn't stop laughing for about 5 minutes.
We sorted out a lot of washing in the afternoon because just about everyones clothes were still damp and stinking from Airlie Beach. Burns' towel stank so much that when Coops and I smelt it we actually gagged. In the evening Coops and I had the $5 meal at the hostel, well nice pasta pesto, the others had fish and chips from down the road. Spent the evening playing draughts with Coops, either my brains not on form any more or Coops is just really good because she won every game. We then played P&A whilst Troy was on and then watched the Dark Knight. While we were watching the dark night it started raining so loud that we couldn't even hear the TV at volume 100, we had to put subtitles on.
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