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Heya guys
Sorrys its been a while but we have just been having far to much fun to spend time updating the blog! plus the internet cafes are so bloody expensive here!! well a lot has been going on since we last updated so i will start from the beginning!
On Saturday night we had our last night out with the boys and headed to coco magas after being promised a good night by the promo girl on the beach who dom feel in love with! well it definatly wasnt all it was cracked up to be and the night ended pretty early with the standard pie from 23 hour pies and a lattice for amy!
As sunday was the boys last night in Byron as well as ours we decided to have a big bbq for our last supper we headed to woolworths and stocked up on food! we had fish fest 2010! a marina mix consisting of king prawns, cod, salmon, mussels and squid rings which i mixed up with garlic, onion and olive oil and we cooked on the bbq!! it was amazing and sooo cheap!! we had a quite one on sunday night as we had to drive the next day!
Monday was a sad day as we had to get packed up and say our goodbyes! The boys headed to nimbin and amy and myself headed up to surfers paradise! we found a camp site just outside of surfers in southport and decided to call that home for the night! we went out for a little wander and found a big shopping arcade with to our delight a cinema! so after another camper van dinner we treated our self to a night at the movies and watched Date night which was very funny indeed!
The next morning we headed to the warner brothers movie world and had a wicked day, lots of rides, a shrek 4d show and a stunt show! the rides were really good especially those we underestimated! but we were absolutly mortified at the price of the food! definatly not good for a travellers budget! we ended the day at warner brothers watching the parade (not quite a disney one) eating an amazing magnum gold!
We spent the night a bit nearer sufers on tuesday so when we woke up wednesday after our first lie in in a good couple of weeks we headed out to get some shopping! well that was a trek and a half and we ended up having to walk back to to the same shopping arcade we had been to the cinema at on monday about a 4km walk all round!! after lunch we got the bus to surfers paradise (very expensive for a ticket) and had a look around there and chilled on the beach watching some surf lessons! quite amusing!
Thursday was an early start and we did a 2 hour drive up to Australia zoo! it was amazing we got to see a croc show, an otter show, feed an elephant and even got our picture taken with a koala bear! We were fascinated to see the zoo keepers hanging out in the tiger cages playing with them like they were p**** cats!! very weird! i also got bitten by a spider whilst here but my arm is still attached so im guessing it wasnt deadly. After our day at the zoo we headed to the camp site we had read about down the road which to our dismnay was full so we carried on driving till we found another one! well it didnt look to bad from the road so we checked in and drove down to our site! well imagine the hills have eyes and thats where we were right in the heart of hillbilly land! we knew we were in for a long night so we got through it with choclate and lots of card games!
The next morning we got our pretty sharpish and headed to noosa! well noosa was very lovely but it was a cold wet day so not really beach weather and definatly not backpacker prices anywhere! after about an hour driving around trying to find the campsite we decided to admit defeat, park up have a look around and head back down to brisbane where we would have been headed the next day anyway! we checked in to a lovely campsite about 4 km outside of brisbane and enjoyed the rest of the day there.
On saturday we headed into brisbane city on the bus! we spent a while looking around the shops but this really is torture when you have no money to spend so we followed our map (like proper tourists) and headed over the bridge to south beach. it was lovely hear a man made beach in the middle of the city surronded by a lovely little market and lots of street entertainers! we enjoyed a nandos for lunch and some lovely sweets from the old fashioned sweet shop for afters! well that was a bad shout as one sweet proceded to pull the filling out of my already broken tooth! Hello dentist when i get back!! we had a very funny bus ride back to our campsite with a very starnge man sat in front of us that took a rather strong dislike to the girl sat across from him! very enteratining!
Sunday was our last day with our camper (Evs as she has been named) and we had to make sure we got her all nice and clean and full of petrol ready to give back! we spent her and made her all shiny and new inside and took her to the self serviced care wash to give her a good wash! we spent a very chilled afternoon sorting out our belongings which had ended up all over the camper and decided to treat ourself to some food out as it would have been wrong to dirty evs! well we opted for a mcdonalds as there was one up the road and as the family box was only a couple of dollars move than both getting a meal it made finacial sense to opt for this! well those of you that know us well know that we can put away a mcdonalds of 3 and tonight was no exception! 2 big mcs, 2 cheese burgers, 4 portions of fries, a portion of chicken nuggets and 4 drinks later we were done!!! and we got such a bad mcdonalds comedown a couple of hours later we had to head to the garage for choclate!!
We got up very early on monday and got everything put back together in the camper ready to return evs! we drove her back to travellers autobarn and said a sad farwell before getting a taxi to the airport! we i had looked at the wrong time and we ended up at the airport 5 hours early so we had a long wait on our hands before we could board our flight but we managed to keep ourselfs occupied! we arrived in melbourne and got a taxi to st kilda where we checked into our apartment only to be told we were on a different site so we had a ten minute walk with all our belongings to get to it! it was worth it the apartmnet is amazing brand new, modern and a toilet that we are not sharing with other campers! result! the added bonus was the kitchette which we thought was toaster kettle and microwave is a full on kitchen, cooker, hobs and all! as it was late we decided to save the cooking for the rest of the week and headed out for some food! we found a bar called La Roche so decided we should really eat there! had some amzing food and a couple of ciders! yum yum
Well it had to start sometime and we have decided today is the day! diet begins! 3 healthy meals a day, no choc, no alcohol and a run every morning! so far i have been very dedicated! 3 days in now! amy has opted out the run for the last two mornings but i am determined she is coming tomorrow! if my legs hert this much so should hers! only fair!! will see how long we can keep it up but with america loming its definatly the time to be doing it even though we do have to keep running past the st kilda speciality cake shops.............
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