Sydney and such..

Sorry for the long wait between blogs! It was just hard to get back into the swing of things after the Sydney trip. Which was amazing! And we are already planning out next trip down there.

Flew down there by myself on Thursday, because my friends flew down the night before, but being the good student that I am, I attended my classes thursday morning and met them down there. See I am actually going to class everyone!!

Anyways..Thursday night we went to the local pub called Northies. It was a lot of fun. It wasn't very crowded but there were enough of us and the boys we were staying with to be a good time. (Oh I almost forgot. The reason we went down to Sydney, besides just a vacation to Sydney was to visit the boys we met in Byron Bay who live down there. We stayed at Stuart's house, with his family.) After the pub, I DROVE Stu's car back to his housefrom his friend's, which is where we started the night. Even though it was only a few blocks it was still a lot of fun. Jake, Stu's friends, who drove with me, thought we should take it on a joy ride, but I was too nervous to, next time maybe. So we hung out at Stuart's house and went to bed.

The next morning we went to the beach, which was just down the street. These boys have the life. Still living at home with their parents, with little to no rules, and living practically on the beach. There was a lifesaving competition down there, which was kind of interesting to watch, but it was too windy, so we went into down and got some lunch instead. (The boys live in a suburb of Sydney about 30 mins, from the downtown area. ) After lunch we went to a lagoon that was absolutely beautiful, and hung out around there for a couple of hours. There were starfish, and little fishes, and squids in the lagoon, which we had fun playing with.

That night we got some take-away (take-out) and ate at the park. Then we went to the RSL. The RSL is a veterans club/bar/casino/restaraunt, but apparently the local youth takes over the RSL on Friday nights. This was one of the reasons this trip was so fun, we were living with local Australians and doing things and going places that we definetly wouldn't have gone to if we would have stayed in a hostel in the city. The RSL was soooo much fun, and we did a WHOLE lot of dancing.

Saturday, we decided, would be our touristy day. So we went into the actual city. Because we were such a big group at this point we took public transporation to get there instead of taking 4 cars. So we took the train into the city, then we walked to the harbor. We took a ferry tour of the Harbor, past the Opera House, and under the Sydney Harbor Bridge. Both we very beautiful but the Opera House was a lot smaller than I pictured it to be, maybe because it just looked so big compared to Nemo. :) I would like to go back and see the city lit up at night on our next trip. Next we went to Stuart's mom's restaurant, a little outside of the city. The food was great, and we had the place to ourselves because it was closed to the public.

Saturday night we went to a house party. It was their friends 21st birthday, which we soon found out was a huge deal here still, even though they can legally drink at 18. The boys weren't sure why this birthday was so important, but they thought maybe because the drinking age used to be 21, and it was just tradition now. Everyone this whole trip was so welcoming, from Stu's parents, who let 5 girls, plue Stu's friends crash at their place all weekend, to Jack's parents who acted like we were long time friends. The party was amazing, it reminded me a lot of graduation parties because it was a mix of kids and their parents. There was lots of free alcohol (no still not drinking) along with catered food (still eating!!) The food was amazing, and they had to drag me away from it. Later in the night they did speeches, Jack's parents were really nice, his Dad was talking about how people had come from all over for his bday, like his brother suprised them and flew home from England, along with Jack's aunt and uncle, and some other people had come from all over Australia. Then one of our friends yelled out, "And the Americans!!" So jack's dad also mentioned their was a group of ladies from the states here with them tonight. :) Then his friends gave speeches, which we more like roast, some of the stories are a little too graphic for the blog, and you would think for the party as well.

After the party we went to another club, which was a lot of fun, and after that we went down to the beach.

The next morning we had a flight at 8. We figured since we would have to leave for it around 6:30, we would just stay up all night. Well we didn't and we also didn't set an alarm. We woke up at 7. We were a good 35 mins. from the airport, and still had to finish packing. While everyone else was scrambling, I called Virgin Blue to see if they could do anything. Well they couldn't, and RYAn, informed me that if we didn't make that flight, we would have to buy another ticket home. Granted we thought about just staying in Sydney forever, we figured better of it. We almost gave up and just bought another ticket when one of the boys flys up with a car and yells, "Get your shit in the car and lets go." And go we did. We left the house at 7:15 and got there around 7:40 and made the flight. We were amazed we made it, and couldn't believe it when we landed in Brisbane.

Sydney was amazing, and we can't wait to go back.

This week was pretty boring, seeing as we got about 8 hours of sleep for the whole weekend.

The Melborne Commonwealth Games (aka Mini Summer Olympics for select countries) started on Wednesday, so we've been watching a lot of that.

Last night we went to a friend's 21st party. Then we were waiting for a cab to go into the city, right by the street, when all of a sudden, a red car flys by and I'm hit, BY AN EGG. No please realize that I was standing right by the street on the sidewalk, with my back to the street. This boy, did not toss the egg at me, it felt like I was hit by a baseball. I had egg all over my shirt and in my hair, I was half crying, and half trying to figure out what the hell happen. So we ran upstairs, in pain, but still laughing hysterically. We got up there and they are picking egg shells off and out of me. Yes, there was egg shells in my skin, I was BLEEDING from getting hit by an egg. I then proceeded to get a HUGE RED WELT. Ya, it hurt real bad, but what a story huh? I am so excited to post a picture of it.

Ok sad news folks. I took about 100+ pictures in Sydney, of us going out, but Stu was holding my camera and kinda lost it, so my camera is M.I.A. at the moment and it isn't looking very good. Luckily I already had pictures on my computer and Tara took pictures of all the touristy stuff. So i will be able to post some landscapy pictures soon, which I'm sure is what you guys want to see anyways, so ill bring my laptop on campus this weekend and try to load some pictures onto here.

ok so my fingers are bleeding for typing so much, and take away was your aussie word of the day.

miss and love you all