Arrived in Brisbane at 11am Tuesday morning and checked in at the Base Embassy hostel. Bumped into some friends I had met earlier during the Ozintro week and decided to book ourselves in for the XXXX Brewery tour that afternoon. The tour wasn't overly interesting but the four free tubs of beer at the end were! Went for some food and a beer on the way back to the hostel and then got ready to go out to a backpacker bar at night. Headed to Down Under bar where gir...

On Friday I went on a little mission to find one of my best friends cousins, who runs a small American sports style clothes store called Sneak & Destroy in Mermaid Beach on the outskirts of Surfers Paradise.. which I found with relative ease.. well my mate did who spotted it as we were driving past on the bus. Finally got to meet Maz's cousin after hearing about him over recent years.. turns out he has the same surname as me and the same Christian name as my...

Visited 'Dreamland' Theme Park on Monday. It had been built up to be amazing, but it didn't live up to all the hype.. still had lots of fun though! The rides and water slides wern't as 'white knuckle' as I had hoped. One particular ride did do the job though.. The Giant Drop!! Sat in a row of 8 people, you are slowly raised vertically 120 metres up in the air and left there for about a minute so you can admire the amazing views over Surfers Paradise and the count...

Continued with work as usual on Thursday.. still not doing anything for me, I felt like leaving at the end of my shift but I thought I would give it one last go on Friday and complete the week. The remainder of the evening was spent out and about around the bars in Surfers with the lads until the early hours again. Back to work on Friday with the intention of leaving at the end of the day, I thought I'd give it my best shot and one last big effort. The day flew...

Back to the grindstone Saturday morning where I had to make 2 sales before I was allowed to go home. Managed to make them and hit my target for the week so I went home early doing my groceries and a spot of retail therapy on the way back to the hostel. My first work doo awaited in the evening starting at 6.30pm in the office for some free beer. The whole team then moved on to Melbas Bar where we had a free bar tab which I took full advantage of!! Talk of a pool ...