I have to finish what happened in surfers paradise, first:) so I actually spent 3 nights in the 'sleeping inn', there, which is the longest I've spent at the same places since I've been here aha!
It was mainly because the hostel was so good, I was in a room with 3 other guys but we had our own little dining table area, kitchen and bathroom- so nice not sharing fridge space with the rest of the hostel! I was in the room with a Canadian, Japanese and an Israeli who were all lovely aha. There was quite a lot of people who worked at the hostel and stayed there, like earns their beds, which is what quite a lot of backpackers do so there was such a good social side to the hostel. They had different things on every night, with free entry and a free drink at a club after some activities at the hostel aha- on my final night there was a trivia, and of course, we entered and won ahah. We actually won a free nights stay at the hostel aha, but we'd already made Brisbane plans so couldn't claim our prize!
So yeah in the days I hung out with some guys I met at the hostel, on the first night I met 2 awesome Canadians who were going home after travelling Thailand and cambodia then Australia, I saw so many pictures and I want to go so bad!:( then, for the last few days i met 2 Dutch guys and a German, cornelius, who was also going to Brisbane after. We went to the beach, did some swimming ahah but the weather was a bit cloudy every now and then! It's still hot, though, well warm aha and itll get warmer as I move onwards and upwards:)
So I left surfers paradise on Wednesday with cornelius, it was so weird travelling with someone else ahah! Very odd indeed. Sooo yeah, we found a hostel for the both of us and checked in, got our free cocktail at the welcome meeting, met some supercool people from all over the place and chilled in the bar in the hostel listening to some live music until bed. OH but I almost forgot, our night was better than night, that night was the state of origin match!! I was soooo awesome! So it's a rugby league best of three (think its rugby league) between New South Wales and Queensland. And trust me, it's competitive ahah, so that night was the final decider! And it was epic. Queensland, where we are ahah won, in the maroon aha woooop! It was such an exciting game, better an normal rugby in my opinion, ahaha there was a streaker ahah so so funny. But yeah, I loved it, that was tht night. THEN the next morning, there was a photography scavenger hunt run by the hostel in Brisbane!! It was so epic, so we had to run around Brisbane (we had 7 hours) and take pictures of lots of silly things, with this hostel t shirt in it. Like, landmarks like the story bridge, queen street mall, etc but also like the person with the worst hair, a picture of someone drinking from a cows udder, ahaha but there was also bonus points for nudity. Aahaha! So I was in a team with cornelius and another English guy, James, who was in my room, and we had such a hilarious day. The first picture, in china town .... James is standing stark naked in the middle of the street with his tshirt in front of his area aha. So so funny! So we didnt get all of the photos, but yeah we had a ball. In the evening we all got together and had a look at them, too, it was good fun:) the bar also had a kinda restaurant with Mexican food ... So good, aha. Anyway so the next day I was leaving the hostel, but I WENT TO THE KOALA SANCTUARY!! It was so so epic, ahahah. I got to feed kangaroos!!:DD I also saw birds of prey, lots of snakes, wombats, dingoes, a platypus!! I had such an awesome time!:D
And then, I got picked up because i was staying a few nights at a friends!:D it was so so lush to had a proper shower in a home, ahahah:') I stayed at the place of a guy I had met in Byron, the week before?:) his name is chad and he was so lovely to me, the first night we just chilled, watched the cricket (hehehehe) and ate the biggest burgers- literally, they were so peng!! Then on Saturday we had a tourist day and he took me on the longest walk around Brisbane. We crossed the river so many times, ahah it was such a good day! Then we went back to his, into the HOT TUB in the terraces that he lives in ahaha I was in paradise. Compare this to the hostels I've been staying in, ahaha it was so epic. Then we met his friends in the even for a few drinks, I already knew a few of them from last week, we had a ball:) we were also planning to go surfing on Sunday then go to e evening service at a nearby church, but surfing didnt even happen- we kicked a football (rugby) ball around with his friends Emily and John in the park. It was actually lush, so so hot, hearing gory stories from John from the morgue as he is at police academy! Then we went and got a FIVE DOLLAR STEAK AND CHIPS, did you hear that ahahah, it was so so epic!!:') then we went to west end for a bit, we tried to find the church for the evening service ahah but to know avail. I'm annoyed I didn't go, especially as I wanted to take chad, but I do adore Brisbane a lot so definitely might come back if I have time- and take him to church then!!
So now it's Monday, and I got the 7 am bus to noosa, where I'm at now. It's nice here! In a cafe, just eaten possibly the pengest muffin EVER, it was huge and still warm inside .... Mmm ahaha. I'm just going to go and find the hostel, I'm only in it for 1 night as I go on a kayaking/bush camp thing tomorrow! Exciting!
Anyway aha, sorry it's so long.
Miss you guys, hope you're all well:)
Lots of kangaroo love,
Beth:) xoxo
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