M on Mary Apartment Hotel Brisbane

Hello everyone! so i kinda lied before. no i just didnt remember, but the student welcoming party is Next thusday! so no news about that one yet. However I've done some other stuff instead. On thusday I went shopping in Brisbane spending all of my freakin money, nääh but almost. And yesterday there was (once again) a barbie in the park. It was a lot of fun and a lot of people, love it! and the ...

... and it was a late late night lol

since then we've been staying with Erins friend David and his 2 roommates Jase and Rob. they've been so good to us, letting us stay here for free and showing us around the city. in return Erin and i made them a pasta dinner one night and a taco night as well.

theyve taught us how to play tennis which was definitely a sight to see lol we've gone out to the clubs in the city a few times and may potentially ...

... another gets
around half way over the pitch before stunned stewards get him. The
now very well oiled scots around us decide to celebrate by chucking
another shoe in the same direction.....100ft downwards narrowly
missing people's heads below. Steward still does nothing but go a
little further into the stairway so he doesn't have to see it!
Around another 5 minutes later we spot a pink blur legging it behind
the goal line near us donning only a ...

Early start to beat the morning workday traffic, so glad I'm not one of them today. Had fears that there would be an accidnet or broken down car on the Gateway Bridge, however it was a smooth ride all the way. We arrived at Brisbane International, checked in (being early we hoped for good seats) cleared security and customs and made our way to the airport shops to buy some books and magazines. With ...

... The trip up WA was spectacular in its own right, small townships, long long Greyhound rides, quirky isolated roadhouses, vast expanses of red dessert and time cut gorges, the friendly laid-back vibe of the locals and the numerous fellow backpackers and of course the relentless sun. And after four months of Oz we make it to our final state and final stop - Brisbane, Queensland. Our stay here was short and sweet but made all the more enjoyable by meeting with friends. Suzi, one of Ali ...

... of litres of oil into the sea so the beaches were closed. We got bottles and had a bit of a party near the beach. When we woke up the next morning Sarah and Mairead decided to leave "thankfully" so the campervans were a bit lighter for the rest of the trip. We decided to head further north and ended up in a place called Noosa for the day which was a quiet town but there was a good few backpackers around. After spending the day there we ...

... able to introduce their grandparents (repeatedly) to the $0.25 soft ice cream cones served up by McDonald's. Free internet, and almost free ice cream...I'm lovin' it! Sydney was also nice because it only had a few scattered rain showers. Our previous 5 days, spent in Blackheath, in the nearby Blue Mountains, featured almost constant rain. Not great for us, but a bonus for you, as it gives us a reason to blog about what constitutes ...

... day at the crack of 6.45 and met up with the rest of our group of 11. Buying food and booze was the first task, its hard to be honest with yourself - how much beer am I likely to drink over 3 days?! Turns out a crate of beer was the way to go, shortly after we all loaded (just!) into the huge 4x4 outside. However big they are its hard to imagine fitting 11 people inside. The barge took us across and soon after we were storming down the very bumpy track across the island and ...

We woke up at 2am this morning bright eyed and starving! All we had was chocolate to munch on! Not a bad choice really! I finally manged to fall asleep again at 5am and then the fire alarm pierces my sleep at 6am! It did not stop so we decided maybe it wasn't a drill and rushed down 6 flights of stairs! Luckily for our stuff but not for my sleeping pattern there was a fault!!! The ...

... sauce sandwiches while some 'singing cowboy' strums away on his guitar as oldies that have had enough wines but can still remember words to songs, stand up and join him. Sure, all the seats are all taken up apart from the one I've spilled tuna oil on, but there's no moshing though as my tent's pretty much taking up the whole 'would be' moshpit. After a pretty good version of Johnie Cash's (cycle tourist appropriate) 'Hemorrhoid song', ('Burning Ring of Fire') and the ...