Sofitel Broadbeach

... war großartig. Mit Logan habe ich mich super verstanden, er ist ein guter Unterhalter und ein total Quatschkopf. Im Regenwald hat er seine Gruppe erschrocken, in dem er vor einem Baumstumpf hervorgesprungen ist. Ich habe mich schief gelacht, er sah aus wie Tarzan mit einer Palme auf dem Kopf. Die Tour war im Grunde die gleiche, außer dass es nicht zum Lake McKanzie ging, sondern zum Lake Birrabeen. Den Unterschied zwischen den beiden Seen wollte ich schon immer mal sehen. Es gibt ...

... blue sunny day...gorgeous. Can't believe everyone was complaining about how cold it was (Sweet Jesus...they should go to New Zealand and live in a van for a week). After a few hours of this and not quite reaching the destination I turned back and headed for the local shopping centre for a wander. Then walked back Corrumbinand met up with Belinda. Chatted to some of her work mates. One thing of n ote is that the Aussie's really do call the English Pommes. I always ...

... did wake me up however was the bus driver calling me wondering where I was. LUCKY for me this time he was a nice fellow, and waited while I hap hazardly scrambled my stuff together and made a record check out from my hostel. I made the bus! Only just tho. It turns out the plane was running an hour late too.... ahhh... so goes life. Anyway, its a little odd thinking that im FINALLY out of Australia. Ive kinda come to ...

... The water was running down the hill like a waterfall.. it was gushing down so fast that it was sweeping people's shoes off their feet!! I had pumps on so had to keep the toes curled to hold on to my shoes!! Anyway, thankfully we made it to the train ok, although the humidity down in the underground station was almost unbearable. Being drenched right through your clothing is one thing but then standing in the equivalent to a sauna with wet clothes on is awful. Anyway, we ...

... shore watching. The area that you are allowed to swim in - between the red/yellow flag - was only a span of about 50 feet. During our time swimming we were able to watch 4 emergency rescues where people had been swept out in the current. 3 of the people rescued happened to be swimming right in front of Dustin/Tyler/Julie!?!?!? We have only 1 picture of Surfers Paradise as someone forgot to bring the camera.......

... forever! I arrived in Surfer's Paradise ecstatic to see and eat at a McDonalds. I ended up eating McDonalds twice in an eight hour period. It was fantastic! I think my love for McDonalds grew with abstenance. While in Surfer's I stayed with my friend Chelsey's ex-boyfriend. He runs pub crawls in Surfer's and took me out both nights. It is awfully hard to explain how I felt when I arrived in Surfer's. I spent two months in ...

... I spent shopping and at the beach and then it was off to Brisvegas for 5 nights. Did Zorbing on the way which basically means getting in a big rubber ball half filled with water and rolling down a hill. Only got one go at it but it was vey good fun, thinkI'll try it again in NZ as that is where it was invented.

... be the Temple Bar equivalent... We walked around and left again, back into town to find a restaurant and by the time we had finished we were ready to collapse. Day 3 in Brisbane was spent on the tourist bus. We went around twice, stopping at Park Street for coffee and the Southbank area for the markets, the lagoon and the walk along the river before walking over the bridge into the Botanic gardens and into town again. Our bus to Byron Bay left at 4.30pm.

alright so last i left off my dear shelli left me and it was back to life on my own down unda. the week after she left i had a bit of school work to do and planned a trip to new zealand before i fly back home...don't worry i'll be writing all about it in a few weeks. the weekend started out early once again at the ranch...third week in a row for me! that's a bit of a record considering going out is beginning to be a process here since i'm running out of m oney and it's getting ...