Trip of a Lifetime

Brisbane, Australia

Hey kids! I write you now from Brisbane, Australia! I'm sure you guessed that after reading the title... Australia has been amazing so far - I know I've only been here a day or so, but I've been that impressed. Brisbane's resemblance to Vancouver city is uncanny. If I didn't know better, and if people didn't keep saying "G'day mate, oh yeeeeah, good on ya!", I might think I was back in Canada. This city is beautiful, clean (I can drink the freaking tap water, yay!), and full of very interesting people. Yesterday I was too tired to post anything - I didn't sleep a wink on the flight. There was this baby - it would not stop screaming. That's right, not crying, sobbing, or whimpering - screaming. This baby was the lead singer of slipknot. Seriously. I don't know exactly where the baby was sitting, but it's screams seemed to come from inside my head, after a while. I put my ipod on, full blast - and I could still hear the baby. It's poor parents, imagine how embarrassed they must have been... And it must have been red as a tomato, hahaha! Anyway... The plane did one good thing - it got me to Australia. Vanessa was there at the airport to pick me up! What a good friend, god knows I would have let her find the place herself - apparently Vanessa is much more a gentleman than I :) We got to the hostel, and wow is Australia expensive - especially after being in a place where you can live quite well on 20 dollars a day - our hostel alone is over 20 dollars each, per day. The food is expensive, the transit is expensive, alcohol is VERY expensive... It's a good thing this country is beautiful :) Plus, it brought me and a very close friend to a beautiful reunion... http://www.geocities.com/spiker43928/P4010004.JPG Ah, Doritos. How I've missed you. Still no Kraft Dinner though, that reunion will have to occur back in Canada. To cut back on cost, and simply because I can, I'll be cooking for myself a lot here in Australia, doing my own laundry a lot, and churning my own butter. K well... Maybe I'll just buy butter. I'll make someone a fantastic housewife one of these years. Here's me, enjoying some cultural headwear http://www.geocities.com/spiker43928/P4020012.JPG I look disgustingly good in that hat. Ew. After playing dressup, we went out to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, where we saw.... Some Koalas... as well as Kangaroos, Wallabees, and tons of other things I can't even remember. They were all really cool, take a look! And I would like to introduce my readers to Vanessa, the girl I'll be traveling with for the next few weeks, at least! http://www.geocities.com/spiker43928/P4020033.JPG http://www.geocities.com/spiker43928/P4020051.JPG If that isn't the cutest picture you've ever seen, you need a head examination. Also, I made an interesting discovery at the sanctuary - I found an R.O.U.S! For those of you who don't know what an R.O.U.S is, be sure to see "The Princess Bride". This thing had massive teeth, and was about as big as a labrador dog. http://www.geocities.com/spiker43929/P4020057.JPG Actually, it's a tasmanian devil. Still, it was huge. Makes me glad Alberta doesn't have rats :) Lastly, here are some pictures of Brisbane! http://www.geocities.com/spiker43929/P4020059.JPG http://www.geocities.com/spiker43929/P4020071.JPG http://www.geocities.com/spiker43929/P4020087.JPG Well, thanks for reading the latest installment. We leave for Cairns, by plane, on Tuesday. Oddly enough, flying there is the cheapest way, by about 100 dollars each. Pretty ridiculous that it's cheaper than the bus, which takes two days to get there... Or the train, which takes two days and costs twice as much. From there, we plan on making our way down the coast, surfing our arses off, and going out on adventures to the Great Barrier Reef, the Whit Sunday Islands, Fraser Island, and anywhere else we can get to. I'll have to put myself to work somewhere in there as well, since I don't want to cut my trip short, and Australia is madly expansive. Farewell for now, and look forward to a new post in the next few days people! Spiker

posted by Spiker @ 3:32 am