After a 11 hour journey to airlie Beach me and kelly was so happy to finally get off the oz bus and best of all to be greeted off the bus by Jenna and Claudia the traveling buddies were finally all back together again and with claude looking better and out of hospital we were back on track

On the Oz bus we got told how Airlie is known as bed bug city so and as you can imagine we was all well excited about that ha ha

Airlie is known for where you do your Whitsunday boat trips and for there big lovely lagoon they have there so we was all excited

Our hostel wasnt the best to be honest my least favourite so far all dorms were like little wooden huts that smelt like old people errrrr

We met Anna their so that was lovely to see her again just a shame she wasnt on our Whitsundays boat trip

Our whitsundays trip began at a early start walking to the marina in the boiling sunshine with our stuff and booze all on the ready, also met Tim and Joe there who had also been on out Fraser island trip. The day stated off well sun was shining as we was laying out on the boat all oiled up and ready to brown oh yeah just when i am laying there thinking life just couldnt get any better the biggest bumble bee decideds to chase me all round the boat me looking like a scared wally was getting the right ump all red faced and everytime i tried to sit back down the blasted bee came back you no when you just dont know if to laugh or just cry ha ha.......

On that note things turned for the worst the sun went in the clouds came out and yes ella ella umbrella yep it rained everyone run into the boat the boat became a sweat pit in minutes literally and the worst thing was there was no where to go as where do u go when your in the middle of the ocean i was even considering decideding to chuck myself off the boat and take my swimming lengths serously this time ha ha...

There were too girls on our boat looked as happy as us on the hot sweaty boat they looked really familiar anyway we all got chating and it turned out there were both from essex too there were called hayley and daniell and daniell use to work in elite sun bed shop in station road chingford the girls were really lovely and so funny and i am sure were defiantley been seeing them two in Nu Bar and 195 when were home

We also made new friends with tim and joes irish friends billy and dessie who were so funny also polly and lindsey

On our last night on the boat at 12am it was claudia's 25th birthday so we played happy birthday by stevie wonder and all danced round the boat for claude. The next morning me and kelly got up really early before everyone woke up and put all banners and balloons and presents out on the boat claude was really pleased....

That was our last day on the boat thank god after getting locked in shower and feeling like i was going to have a heart attack then going snorkerling in sea in the rain and seeing a small shark i was more then ready to finally get back on land

That night i had booked a nice seafood resteraunt for a suprise for claudes birthday as a and we had arranged a cake to be made and jen and kel had done party bags us girls and anna took claude for the meal she was really happy the food was nice claude had surf and turf and i went for the steak it was amazing and beats backpacker food anyday. after dinner we met everyone from our whitsundays clipper boat trip in koala's bar where they had karaokee night we had a really good night billy and joe sang claude a song especially for her birthday and we all got drunk and danced on the tables, after way to many we even got up and all sang on karaokee

After a long week or more in airlie and lots of rain claudes eye had started to get bad again poor chick just when we thought her eye was clearing up and getting better it started to turn for the worst and swell right up again......

It was kelly's last night with us before she would leave us to go home the next day for a over night stop over in bangkok then back to london, that night we went on a massive bar crawl to give shelia baby the good send off she deserved after starting in beaches bar, paddy maguires then ended up in africa mama's club we was pretty wasted, after kelly asking for britney spears the dj was really rude to kel and then started on me jen was having none of it and did no more but chucked a drink straight over the idoit of a dj's head so funny (i defiantley see a side if miss kelly letchford in jen that night) ha ha cheers jen what are best friends for hey after that we legged it ha ha!!!!

Next day was sad to see kelly shelia baby go home after way to many laughs and spending 2 and half months together she was defiantley going to be missed

lots of love

always

claire xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx