My day started off good, I woke up at 7 because that is what time they had us wake up at Orientation so now it is a bad habit. I ate breakfast and took a shower, then Beth and I decided to go shopping and get some essentials for our Apartment (she isn't my roommate but lives diagonal from me). We walked about 3-5 minutes to the bus stop and waited there for a little less then thirty minutes. We got on and told the bus driver we were headed to Australian Fair and he said that was just fine. So we get on the bus and we are just talking and looking outside the bus to get a look at our new home. We get to a stop and he is not moving the bus for about 3 minutes and we think he is just waiting for passengers to get on. Then the bus driver looks at us and asks where we were going to so we repeated Australian Fair. Then he kind of laughs and says "this is it. We are here." haha so we were completely clueless we were there, but next time we will remember.
We went inside and went to Kmart (which is inside of the mall) and got all of the stuff we needed, such as sheets, pillows, blow dryer, etc. We then had to take the bus home and we carrying 3 large bags each which wasn't to bad walking out of the mall and on the bus but we definitely noticed it when we had to walk 15 minutes back to our apartment! Oops! Next time we will remember to pack light!
Then we hung out and ab out 10 of us decided we wanted to go out to Surfers Paradise tonight, which is where all the bars and pubs are. So then story begins.
We all get a Maxi Taxi (which is like a van taxi thats really cheap if you have 10 people, like 2 dollars each) and we decided to drive to the village (which is about a 15 minute drive away) to meet up with some friends before heading out. We get in the van and as soon as the driver pulls away from our apartment it starts to downpour. You remember how I said in the last blog bad weather follows us? IT IS STILL TRUE! We decided it would just be like a 10 minute rain shower like it was the day before and continued on to the village. Well the taxi drivers here like to rip people off. He took us a complete round about way to make the fair larger (which we wouldn't know if we hadn't had an Australian with us) then the Taxi drivers drops us off and says we should be able to get to our location from there. Well it turns out you USE to be able to, not anymore. So we had to walk in all of our nice clothes (and heals might I add) 15 minutes to the right place in the pouring rain! By the time we got to the village our hair was soaking wet, our shoes were covered in mud, and our clothes were dripping wet. It was a nightmare. SO we get to the village and head up to our friends apartment. We hang out there for 30, call a taxi and head downstairs. Well turns out there were 30 other people downstairs waiting for a taxi and ours never came. We would call the cab company to ask where it was and they would hang up on us. The taxis here are horrible!!!!!!
So we ended up waiting two hours outside for our Taxi to come and finally one gets there. We decide to continue on to Surfers Paradise but by that time everyone had changed their mind and decided not to go out. It went from 16 people down to 4. The Taxi Driver picks up 3 other people and starts to drive to Surfers. Along the way he decides to inform us there is a per km rate, it is a set rate of $140 which came out to $20 each for one cab ride (making our cab fair so far $23 each). Finally we get to surfers and are like lets have some fun finally!
So we went into Omalleys which is a bar that doesn't have a cover charge and has a live band playing. I ordered a Vodka and Sprite because I was clueless what else to order. We hung out there but left within 30 minutes, before I had even finished my drink.
We then went to Beer Garden and hung out there for about 40 minutes before finally deciding that our heals were telling us to head home. That cab driver drove sssoooo fast I thought I may crash, another thing that happens a lot in Taxis (and buses) here in Australia. At the end of that cab ride we each had to pay $7 making my cab fair for the night $30 dollars, ridiculous right? I spent $6 on one drink all night (that I only had a half of), and $30 in cab fair lol
What a night my clothes and hair are still soaking from the stupid rain!. Now I am headed to bed because I can hardly hold my eyes open after this night!
Night!!!
P.s. Here is a link to look at pictures! For those of you who have facebook/myspace these are the ones that are already uploaded on those websites.
http://s704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/chelseataylor77/
Will tell you in future blogs when I post new pics as well!
Love you!
No comments:
Post a Comment