This weekend Butler (which is is the program I am in for studying abroad) organized two different trips for Butler Students. The first type was an adventure weekend, where you went camping, and rock climbing, basically just did all the stuff I love. The second one was a country weekend where you went and stayed with a farmer and his family for the entire weekend. Originally I signed up for the Adventure weekend because it is more my type, then after a while I switched over to the country weekend. I figured it would be more of a unique opportunity then camping would.
The weekend started on Friday around noon. There were seven of us going, and we met at the university. After meeting at Griffith our bus driver Eric drove to Brisbane to pick up the other students of the University of Queensland which was only about an hour away. After picking them up we drove for another two hours to Towoomba to meet our host family.
Roy and Judy were the two people in the host family where we stayed. They were probably in their seventies and had been married for a very VERY long time. Their farm was 5,000 Acres and was literally in the middle of no where. It was a nice break from the city life that is for sure. They had everything from Wild Kangaroos, Koala's, Llama's, Horses, Ducks, Cows, basically everything you would think they had on a farm they did.
Friday night when we got in they made us a very good dinner. It had rice, chicken and homemade pudding. That night we didn't do much since we got in a little late. We had dinner, got to know everyone and then played games for a few hours.Saturday morning we went on a tour of the farm. It was pretty cool to see a bunch of Roo's running around in the wild! After that we went to Bonya Mountains and had lunch and went for a hike. The hike was pretty but we didn't get to do the long hike because Judy and Rigght (pronounced as "Rit"). We were only there for about an hour, which seems silly because it took an hour and a half each way to drive there.
On the way back we found out that Rigght was actually 91 and we were a wee bit scared to be driving with her after that. We did make it home in one peace, after getting kidnapped and going through a tour of her entire house...which none of us had asked for!! She was a nice old lady, but went off on tangents all the time and if you didn't listen to her she would yell over everybody until everyone was listening to her storys!
Saturday we had some wonderful mashed potatoes, salad and corned beef. After dinner we had homemade ice cream and I absolutely loved it! After ice cream we had a movie night. We watched Groundhogs day and some other movie that I can not recall the name of right now.
Then that brings us to today!! We had all said we would leave by 9:30 (so that we would actually be gone by ten which is when we truly wanted to leave). It would have worked out just fine except for Judy took forever!!! All of the teenagers were ready by 9:30, and we didn't leave until 10:45 because we were waiting on her. We went into the town and saw some cute bead shops, scrap booking, and fudge shops. Nothing all that amazing but it did help pass the time that we needed. So after that we went and met back with our bus driver and came home! Nice Simple weekend :)
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