Aruba Sands Resort Broadbeach

... with before leaving Brisbane for a life away from the "burbs". It is amazing to see that although our experiences are vastly different, our friendship remains as it did all those years ago. Great to see you again Wayne, Jen, Peter and Ursula. <br><br>Hopefully I will be able to post some pics of my mates in the near future.

... construction on the way home, but we were driving along the river and the city was so beautiful at night that it didn't even phase us. Friday morning Jess and I headed into the CBD for some good 'ole fashioned tourist activities. We first went to the Queensland Transport office to get 18+ ID cards so that we wouldn't have to carry around our passports. Best idea ever! It only took about 30 minutes and cost less than $25. Much cheaper than trying to replace a stolen ...

... dancing and physical comedy. Imogen did a world famous Marie Antoinette inspired striptease, Tiger Lil and Kellie Vella were also great, with the highlights of their performance being the mermaid and sailor balancing act and Tiger Lil's whip cracking and angle-grinding finale. Kellie Vella also did a great aerial ribbon act. Neridah Waters was the butt off all the jokes of the other ...

... 30 minutes so it wasn't too long. When we arrived at the place where they lived, we followed Ann to a lovely lakeside spot with a picnic table. It was a fantastic stop, there was a little beach, places for fishing, grass to play cricket and there was even a kiyak. Bronte really wanted to go fishing so Celeste and her got the rods and sat down to try and catch some of the fish that lived in the lake. Noah in typical Noah style immideantly set ...

... to Wet and Wild, a pretty good water park but again it rained. The highlights of the day was seeing Amanda go down the Kamikaze sitting up straight, which panicked the lifeguard at the top of the slide and Shipley thinking he had won on the slide where you can race each other only to be given a false start. After that we decided to head straight down to Byron Bay. Which we had been told is everything Surfers is not.

... and head out to sea. Now this isn't the calmest sea ever, in fact, our happy little family had to cut down from twelve to ten because the skipper wasn't going to take that many out in these swells. Of course after my horribly exciting whaling adventure I popped a couple of ginger pills before I got on. They didn't really work. Once we had gotten out onto the ocean it got a little ruff (to quote a pirate "Aiy she's ...

... s a bizarre sight, a tiny town filled with city-sized skyscrapers right on the coast. From a distance it looks like it has just risen from the sea in some bady Sci-Fi movie. We decide to head further up to scope out campsites closer to the centre and as we move up the Gold Coast Highway the hotels get taller and the resorts & restaurants get tackier. The whole area is supposed to me based on Miami and South Beach in particular but the initial stretch looks more like a ...

On Tuesday we drove to Wet'n'Wild on the Gold Coast. It was quite a cold and wet day which we thought would be a good thing as we wouldn't get burnt or have to queue to long... how wrong were we?! First water slide of the day and we are stood in a queue with hundreds of lovely kids (on bloody school holidays!) and already our teeth are chattering because its pouring down and we are soaked... oh the fun! It worked out OK in the afternoon as we must ...

... Gabba didn't have a problem with this. As he drove past my stop I got up to have a word with him. I asked why he didn't stop and he started going off into one saying that the bus was only stopping at Chermside. I told him that was no good for me as it was miles away, he then asked where I was from and started slating me for being from England. After a couple of minutes row without raising my voice I managed to get him to pull over, as I left the bus I gave him the V's and if it hadn't ...

... anyways it was a disappointing lost. i found a favorite player though...his name is jason acker (maybe its ackerman...they abbreviate everything here). he has bleach blond hair, is shorter than the typical afl player but is scrappy, quick and pretty much scored all of brisbane's points. i knew i picked the good players. sunday was my last day in brisbane but my flight didnt leave until 9 pm so we took a semi-road trip north to the sunshine coast. this was about an hour and 20 ...