Aruba Surf Resort Broadbeach

... the Simpson Desert to Birdsville. From there return to Sydney via central NSW, or any other route that may get my interest. <br><br>Departure Day (-) 1: Spent the day packing my motorcycle so that it was ready to go early morning. Got distracted, which is normal, and went to visit a few mates from my youth who I used to ...

... with students in togas of all types and colors. My standard white toga almost seemed bland! We wandered through the crowd to the back where we met up with some other friends and chatted for a while. I had my first pomegranate flavored Bacardi breezer which came in a classy aluminum can and tasted like sugar water. Unfortunately it cost around $8 which, according to my aussie friends is to deter people from drinking so many of them, which I is probably a good idea. We hit ...

... comedy and burlesque. There was quite an eclectic mix of a crowd there to see the girls perform. Before the show started the group acted as usherettes escorting people to their seats and running around the auditorium fooling around, losing their shoes and falling onto people´s laps. Tarnished whipped up the crowd with deconstructed chorus lines, whip-cracking, ribbon aerials, acrobatics ...

... lunch. We had been invited by dad's friends Con and Ann to come and visit them at their new home for a BBQ lunch. When we had all been showered, had our hair done and were dressed and ready to go, Nikita and I started walking down to Cold Rock to pick up our awesome Cookies and Cream icecream cake we had ordered the day before. Once we had picked it up, we crossed the road and then jumped into the car. The trip to Con and Ann's took about ...

... failed to understand that in Brazil they speak Portuguese and it all got a bit heated at the door and resulted in Amy calling him a "****ing cock" and him telling us to "**** of back to Pommy Land". We ended up drinking in an Irish Bar similar to every Irish bar around the world where I bumped into a lad who stayed at Manly Backpackers, who incidentally loves Surfers. Each to their own I suppose. The next day we ...

So this week I have officially spent all my grocery money in one day. I spent it on a deep sea fishing trip. Now when you think of deep sea fishing you, like me, probably expect three footers popping up all over the place. This really isn't so. The majority of the fish we caught were about as big as your everyday pond fish. Well, there was one exception, but ill get to that later. So we get on this itty-bitty little ...

... a few hours reading and watching people surfing and sea kayaking. Around lunchtime we head off for the short drive North to the Gold Coast. It's just a short hop up the highway and we've crossed the border into Queensland. We stop first at Kirra Beach which looks quite nice but is about 25km South of Surfers Paradise, the heart of the Gold Coast. Kirra has a nice campsite and the beach looks pretty good too. It also has an amazing view across the bay to Surfers Paradise and ...

... aber das kommy hoffentlich bald wieder. Als wir gestern auf der Fahrt hierher die Grenze zu Queensland ueberquert haben, meinte der Busfahrer, dass wir dioe Uhren eine Stunde zurueckstellen muessen. Nicht dass wir in einer anderen Zeitzone sind, aber New South Wales hat wohl eine Sommerzeit und Queensland nicht. So haben wir eine Stunde gewonnen und ich bin Euch nur noch neun Stunden voraus.

... to get out just before the final whistle to avoid the crowds and got on the bus at the front of the que. The buses don't leave till there full so I had to wait round another 10 minutes. Everyone on the bus apart from me and the driver were smashed, I pressed the button for the bus to stop at the top of chinatown, which is only a 2 minute walk from where I'm staying. He shook his head and turned the "bus stopping" sign off, the driver that had previously dropped me off after work at ...

... searching for a zip down fleece of a rugby/afl team and i couldnt find them anywhere...any store i look in just have fleeces with the half-zip pull overs. well i then resorted to the internet and found a zip down fleece and it happened to be of the brisbane lions so i think the real reason i wanted to go to the game was to show off my fleece :). unfortunately the lions lost...they were up big in the first quarter but just lost life in the second half and i think the score was 75 ...