18/02/09

Still felt like s*** but had to get up and get the greyhound to Brisbane. Got there at about 1430, checked in and went for a wonder to get some food as I hadn't eaten anything for over a day. Got a vegie subway, all the mayo fell out the bottom all over my new shorts which really pissed me off so I hussed the thing in the bin and got a pie instead. Went back to the hostel and layed in bed while the others went to use the internet. We got a free meal in the evening, played a couple games of pool and then watched TV in the room for a bit.

19/02/09

Woke up and got a B-Ball from the hostel, spent an hour or so playing on the Basketball / tennis court that was about a quarter the size of a normal tennis court. After a while some random dog showed up trying to get his chops round the ball, we carried on playing anyway. The dog was crazy, it kept going for the ball, I'm pretty sure that if it had fallen down on its nose it would have hurt, but this dog had no fear and wouldn't leave us alone. After a while we were told not to tease the dog and definately not to play with the ball anywhere near it because he has a track record for devouring basketballs and we would end up losing our key deposits if he got his teeth in to it. By this time I was pretty sweaty so I had a shower and waited for the others to get ready to go in to town.

Got off the shuttle bus on South Bank and spen the afternoon wandering around the city centre. I had to buy a belt because my shorts were ending up round my knees after every couple of steps. The girls found Cotton On and Supre, so we lost an hour or so of our lives there. I had to buy some water, they had the most strange deal on bottles of water, $3.10 for 1 litre bottle or $3 for 2 of the same litre bottles, I didn't want 2 but as it was cheaper I had to get 2. Went to the library to use some free internet, the others wandered back, possibly going in to Coles on the way back, while I stayed put attempting to rinse the Aussie government for as much free internet as poss and maybe download the next 2/3 eps of Heroes. After about 20 minutes some really, and I mean REALLY, fat bird came and sat next to me on the doubble sofa I was sat on. As she sat down I literally bounced in to the air and had to re-organise all my stuff on the sofa to prevent it from slipping down anywhere near her vast arse. It only got worse, she started telling me all about how her boyfriend keeps kicking her out of his house, I clearly showed that I wasn't interested in anything she had to say by continuing to type my blog but she just wouldn't shut up. She started asking about how to use the internet so I seized the oppertunity to point her to a seat a good 20 feet away from me, it was then that her legs were draped in a dark downy hair. Eventually she left me alone and I quickly stuffed my headphones in so she couldn't come back a talk to me.

Got back home at just after 8pm, the guys had been to Coles and we ended up having rice, chicken with peppers and pasta sauce in pitta bread with a salad. It was actually really nice to have a change from pasta and sauce, stir-fry and curries. Really tasty. In the evening we watched the new version of the Incredible Hulk on the TV.

20/02/09

Got up and got a basket ball from reception at about 9. Burns came down to join me at about 10 and we played until around 11. By this time I was starting to feel quite dizzy from the heat and was drinking water constantly. We sat around in the bar by the pool all morning and then went to get lunch from Coles. Once we had finished lunch we went for a wander around the city again, we saw some cool metallic kangaroos by the casinos in the city centre. Burns once more attempted to find some new shorts, I bought another wife-beater from cotton on because I know I'll never find any back in the UK. I left the others to look for their things while I went and used the internet in McDonalds. I successfully managed to avoid ordering a shake the entire time I waS there and eventually the others arrived, Coops unsuccessful in her hunt for a new hand-bag, and missing a Burns. I'm pretty sure he had gotten himself lost in Target, but when the others found him he claimed he was 'just looking at shorts'. Coops kept setting off the alarm in Target with the book she had stolen from Coffs Harbour so the guy had to go and scan it. While I was in McDonalds the others had got themselves caught in a thunder and lightning storm, it hammered it down and now all the pavements were slippery. We walked to the library, Coops broke her flip flop and nearly stacked it a couple of times. but the wi-fi in the library was s*** today so we stayed long enough for Pat to take a turd and we left.

When we got back we watched neighbours and home and away then played a couple of games of cards and then cooked a huge fry up. For some reason I am never hungry any more, apparently its the heat, but I'm sure theres something in the tap water here that makes me really bloated all the time. The kitchen has 6 hobs, but for some reason has a table with around 100 frying pans underneath, totally uneccessary, they need to trade some of them in for utensils and other kinds of pots and pans, we could have had a pan for each rasher of bacon we cooked. Later we watched Click on the TV, what a depressing second half of a film.