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... labor for 5 hours straight without a break. Unfortunately, politics are starting to get stirred up about who is working hard enough and who is not, so I am even more glad to be leaving soon, because I don't want to get in the middle of all that. <br><br> I have become good friends with the French girl, Nancy, because we share a room and we can speak French together! It is good practice for me, since it has been a long time since I've ...

... black, it was as black as the ace of spades, scary black! we parked the vans &amp; the heavens opened, thunder, lighting, fork, sheet, hail, you name it we had it,we were then told where we were going, to an island called tangalooma to feed the dolphins, wow!! but this weather, the captain was checking on the boat coming back but thought it would be o.k. we have never seen a storm like it &amp; we were out on in on the seas, it was amazing, we ...

... and cheap. We stayed at the Watermark Hotel Gold Coast which was quite reasonable, it cost about AU$ 155 a night and we were upgraded to a deluxe room which was nice. We used Gold Coast Hotels foir the discount offer. It was easy ...

... headed off to find someone to start the movie off again. Eventually it started up again and they rewound it so we didn't miss anything. The movie was fantastic and I was sad to see it finish. We met dad outside the cinema and the slowly made our way back to the car. After we all piled in, we headed on the long trip back to Surfers Paradise, thanks once again for our ipods. When we returned to the apartment, I headed upstairs for some reading and for an early night.

... up his offer. We hired a car from Brisbane to Sydney and drove to Gary's house which was one hour south of Brisbane. So we ended up skipping Brisbane. It was a nice offer, but as soon as we were in his house we felt a little wrong being in someone's house (that we didn't really know) and decided to leave first thing the next day. It was nice to use the internet and chill out on sofa's for an evening however! We headed to Surfer's Paradise which was a long beautiful beach with nice ...

... enjoy the sun! Unlike the Sunshine Coast, with its moderate amount of development, the Gold Coast is a veritable tourist's dream, filled chockablock with condominiums, hotels, shops and attractions. A new piece of real estate, called simply 'Jade', is a luxury skyscraper on the beach, where you can own an entire floor of the building. Each floor contains its own pool, which begs the question: Why do you even need a pool, when you can walk 100 ...

... from the locker and have a wander round taking some pictures at Rick's Cafe Americain and a few other spots before heading for lunch at the Gotham City Diner. Lisa has the inappropriately named Cat chicken burger while I opt for the Gotham City Seafood platter. Not bad for theme park food. Then it's quickly off to the Roxy Theatre to catch the Shrek 4D show where we queue for ages, get some 3D glasses and into the building. We then have an even longer ...

... 3, I say 6-3 - you listening Marcus! Struggled out of bed and walked down to the beach and had a a look at the bay. Byron was a really cool place, that had a lively feel to it and a good buzz. We just lounged around on the beach for the remainder of the day and had a look around the surf shops - Mr Baker was getting very excited I can tell thee about surfers! Got back to the hostel and went to meet Si again in the evening. Had a good ...

... and Alex the paddy. As it was Lennys night he had say in where we went. He was determined to have a look at the student union, which is where we headed to. Just as we got to the union all there was loads of students heading in the opposite direction, I asked some kid what was going on and he said there was a big student party over at a club called Chalk and if we were to mingle in with the crowd that we'd probably get on one of the party bus's laid on and get in the ...

... way we can fully express our gratitude except to say that their hospitality gave us the break we needed to reignite the desire to keep on travelling and exploring, and move on to our next adventure. And so it is from Brisbane that our next adventure begins, with a flight tomorrow morning to Christchurch, New Zealand, thus bringing down the curtain on six fabulous, exciting and thoroughly enjoyable weeks in this Land Of Plenty. Now let's see what those Kiwis have to offer...