greetings from Hervey Bay! I am en route to Cairns, but at 8:55pm this evening (it is now 7pm) my bus leaves for Airlie Beach, a mere 12-hour journey away. It's an overnight bus, which means i bought sleeping pills! hopefully no-one will sit beside me *please God*
sooooo currently i am charging my computer at Noodle Box, and noticing that even though Noodle Box advertises itself as a 'healthy eatery\, a lot of the people coming in to order are fat, bordering on obese....hmm maybe it's a Hervey Bay thing.....
On Monday my journey began. my flight was half an hour late leaving roma, but i got a room at the Base Central backpackers in Brisbane and had a pretty mellow night watching 'the voice' and going to bed early.
On Tuesday i actually slept in a bit (SHOCKER!!!), had a nice $7 brekkie, and walked eight blocks with my assortment of bags in order to catch the 10:15am bus to Rainbow Beach. *just* as the bags were unloaded upon reaching our destination, it started raining. oh good, just what the forecast has predicted all week, which severely puts a dent in my 'just wanna lay on the beach for a week' plan ;)
All good I had a really great night with Jesse, a Vancouverite who sat across from me on the bus. We had nachos (i had made a melange of refried beans and avocado for my lunch and there was tons left) and beer for dinner; she's a cool chick :)
This morning the sun was shining and i woke at 8am, decided to get ready for the beach, and Jesse and i braved the wonky weather and actually got some sun! It was chilly and windy and drizzly when the clouds were upon us, but warm and wonderfully sunny when they went away. I got into Hervey Bay at 5:30pm and will no doubt hit Macca's (McDonald's) up for free wifi again before i go back to the bus station (thanks for holding my bags for $, greyhound!!). currently i am on my dongle, which is an internet stick. I have to charge my computer (GAH it's only at 51%!!!!!) before getting back on that bus. "Big Bang Theory" is the current watch, season 4.
I have my hostel booked for tomorrow at 9am when i get to Airlie Beach, but check-in is not until 2pm so they'll have a luggage storage area so that i can hopefully get some rays/walk around before checking in and no doubt drinking the night away with new friends LOL
on Friday (June 1st already???!!??) i leave at 9am and get into Mission Beach at 6pm. This day will be 'Dexter' day, or at least until my battery runs out. I can't believe they don't have power points (plugs) on the buses!!! :(
YOU ALL NEED TO PRAY FOR NICE, CLEAR, SUNNY WEATHER IN MISSION BEACH ON JUNE 2nd, PLEASE. this is the day i would like to jump 14 000kms out of a plane, with someone strapped to my back.
June 2nd (nighttime) i plan to be in Cairns, but that might change to June 3rd depending if the big JC actually listens to my pleas (and your prayers) for awesome skydiving weather ;)
My flight to Melbourne leaves Cairns at 12:30pm on June 4th. I start work on June 5th.
OH YAH I FORGOT TO TELL YOU!!!
I'll be the promo girl for Absolut CherryKran, working at Duty Free in the Melbourne airport again, but only from 7am-11am :) Annie is absolutely thrilled that i'm coming back (hahahaha see what i did there?), even though the contract was originally supposed to start on june 16. they pushed it up and i got a $1 raise! it's nice to have some work waiting for me in Melbs, and hopefully i can get a second job for a couple of days a week to get extra dough. I'll be living with Tony again, and his new roommate Erin Lambert! (you may remember Erin from my time in Ireland, when i met her and we were close friends when we both lived in Toronto. After a few years off the grid, she's back in my life!).
so that's about it for now.....Barb (the tiny kangaroo that the backpackers were given two months ago and that Izi looked after) died on Saturday. She lived two months longer than anyone thought she'd live, but also probably two months longer than she needed to.....she never really got heavier or looked like anything less than death, poor thing. :(
lots of love!!! i'll try writing more in a couple of days xoxo
Hi there my darling neice Geneviève,
ReplyDeleteWe all had a terrific time at Mathew's 30th and we missed you ! He had no clue right till the end...it was a great SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE ! ! !
It's always good to hear from you and I'm glad everything is going well.
Love you and think of you often,
Aunt Mo X X X