Andrea: The day of the rugby match has arrived! We left the campsite to return downtown and stay in a hostel (abandoning GEM for the night). The place had a tiny parking lot and we managed to park after 15 minutes of Brie and me barking instructions at poor Vern behind the wheel while a handful of backpackers looked on. The receptionist told us they were full and we'd been upgraded to two double rooms. After a few minutes of deliberation, it was decided that Vern...

Andrea: "My friend arrives today!" is what I was thinking when we woke up at 6:30 to sneak out of our campsite without paying the fees. Actually, I was probably thinking more along the lines of "$@£"! It's 6:30 in the morning!" but I thought I would clean it up to keep the blog family-friendly. Either way, I was super excited to be meeting up with one of my best friends in the world, Brie, for 3 days. She was visiting friends in Australia and we bullied her into...