Cairns!!!

We arrived in Cairns and we were soo happy and excited to be there, there was sunshine, people, shops and what looked like a very good nightlife and a lagoon – happy days!!

After we checked in – which took about an hour because the receptionist was a total moron we went to our room, it was small, cosy, very clean and huge balcony – loved it!! We dumped our stuff and went in the search of shops and of course – GOON!! Once back, with new clothes we got showered, dressed, drank lots and then headed off out!! We were staying at Gilligans hostel – the place to be, and it was lovely, pool and gym, huge bar, and cheap food! We were rather drunk by the time we got downstairs and so erupted into a fit of giggles, stupid faces, stupid poses for the 10-shots function on Gemma’s camera and then busted out some songs!! I dread to think how we sounded but it was all good fun. There we bumped into lots of people we had met on the way up the east coast. The night went very well going on a bar crawl and ending up in the Woolshed – google it ;-)!

The next morning we woke up all very very hungover and tired…and then I realised…o.m.g we have our skydive today!! We were used to it being cancelle due to the crappy weather but not this time the sky couldn’t have been more blue and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky and the wind was non-existent. Gemma looked like she wanted to die. Jill was still drunk and I wasn’t entirely sure where the hell I was! We went back to sleep and woke up again at 12pm – we had to get up and ready as skydive was in less than 2 hours…off we went where it was confirmed the skydive was going ahead!! There was myself, gemma, jill and Dom (we met him in Sydney) doing the skydive, plus a few other randoms! I was so excited to do the skydive, but once I saw the plane I freaked out!! I had paid extra to get my photos and video done…I couldn’t speak – not often that happens!!

Right skydive - o my god! You will wet yourself when you watch the DVD! I was so excited to do it, however on the day i was sooooooo hungover, and then when i saw how tiny the plane was i freaked out! Hyperventaling and screaming a lot. I was 2nd, i thoguht going on the plane last id be out last - no no that did not happen! I remember saying god were about to do it we are sooo high - we were at 3000ft - we were skydiving from 14,000FT!! I went white and thought i was going to vomit. So getting ready hes attaching me to him, im sitting screaming and covering my eyes with my hands! Watch the first woman "fall" and then i loose it! Start screaming my head off shouting im not doing it im not doing it im not doing it!I even went as far as sticking my legs on the wall of the plane to stop him pushing us out haha!! So your meant to sit on the edge of the plane for about 5 secs, tuck your legs under the plane and get ready...na na my guy thought we best not do that! Once he had grabbed my leg and stuck it out the plane - all the time im still screaming my arse off, he just throws us out the plane, we are upside down tumbling around going round and round in the sky! most terrfying expeirence of my life! soooo much fun though and would def do another one :)! I thought gemma was going to pass out when she landed...she was a very funny colour and was put straight to bed once back home haha.

Nobody was up for going out that night apart from myself and Jill – think we were buzzing from the adrenaline rush and any sign of hangover was wiped away and we got ready for the pub crawl we stupidly paid for when drunk the night before! We started off somewhere called blue – my mind is hazy – blame the goon, again bumped into the usual faces, and it was actually a really good night, we got free pizza and some free drinks in the irish bar –honestly best pizza ever haha! That was pretty much how our week went in cairns, lazing about and drinking and partying and having a very good time!!