What an amazing semester! I wish i would have wrote about everyday cause each day had a new adventure in it. Before this trip, Rachael and I did an outback tour for 5 days and had a nice road trip to Adelaide, but if you want to read about those you can always check out her blog! The end of the semester called for a final trip, unfortunately Penn (my Chinese Friend) couldn't make this one so it was up to me, Josef and Harry to drink his share haha (which wasnt that much anyways haha just kidding Penn)!
After a crazy last pub night, I needed Thursday to recover and still wasn't 100% on Friday before we left (yes, it was that crazy) so i left the driving to Harry and Josef. While sitting in the back seat I realized (I can now use a z in 'realized' without getting judged or marked off from a professor....YAY) that is was the last trip i would take 1. in Australia and 2. with my good friends Harry and Josef (for awhile atleast)...it was a sad moment in the backseat for me. After leaving the metropolitan area and suburbs, green hills began to roll all around us and in the horizon. It was like nothing i've ever seen! We had a quick decision to make between the coast way or just the highway, luckily we made the right choice and went the coast route. So after a nice scenic drive, the sun began to set and we started our way through the Snowy Mountains and yes, they actually have snow on them! Now that the sun was down, Jumanji 2 started and the Australian wildlife was everywhere. Kangaroos running across the street every couple minutes, wallabies, wombats and a Dinosaur...ill explain. So Harrys driving, im sitting in the front seat and josef is sleeping in the back and all of a sudden this roar comes out of nowhere! It was 11 pm and Harry didnt say anything about the noise so i was like "uhhh, did you just hear that?" and he was like I didnt want to say anything cause I thought i was hearing stuff! So after being a little weirded out, we talked about how the velociraptor part of Jurassic Park was the coolest part of the movie and that the mountain we were on probably was a Jurrasic park....okay we hadnt seen a car in hours so we were going a little crazy, but we both heard the noise and when we told Josef he was convinced we made a stop and grabbed some mushrooms from the side of the road, but I assure you we didn't! Anyyways, we finally made it to the coast at a little after midnight and were lucky enough to find a hostel that was still open...well, we thought we were lucky!
We walk into this building and there isnt one window and was already cold in the room. I called dibs on the extra blanket so i was 'okay' through most of the night but i woke up quite a few times and the bed would be shaking where Josef was shivering (it was a bunk bed... geese you guys are sick!)
So we woke up and i was feeling a little better than the day before but still a tad weird but i was okay enough to drive and we got a coffee and headed to a nearby "bush walk" or trail walk in other words. The walk was 15 minutes and wasn't anything spectacular and the beach access was closed off....but this rule was obviously meant to be broken! So we hopped down some steps and found ourselves on one of the nicest beaches we'll probably see! Not a foot print on the beach, huge waves, clear water, raised cliffs behind us, oh and the dolphins swimming up and down the coast...pretty sweet! So after hanging out, Harry and Josef swam a little and having a beer, we left with the feeling that the trip was already worth it. I was feeling pretty good now and was ready to crank. Harry made a mix from some of the songs out of my eclectic music collection and he chose some good ones, from Duran Duran to The Fixx and U2 to Seal, plus many more, and it made the drive even more spectacular than it already was. so little more driving and then we stopped in a nice town and got some fresh sea food. Our accommodation was much nicer this time, more blankets, a heater, and it was a sort of camper park so we didnt have to worry about disturbing anyone! We hung out for a couple hours and had a few beers and got hungry later so Harry and I had some chicken, which hit the spot! Oddly enough, we fell asleep pretty early, maybe 930 this night and decided to make it an early morning as well. So once we got to sleep, of course the camper across the street decided to have this huge rave and i have to say the DJ was actually really good, but i was ready to kill someone! And then it stopped and after a couple more hours of sleep i had the craziest dream! I woke up and looked around and my bed was surrounded by a brick wall...it was so freaked I woke up in the morning and had flipped around on the bed to where my head was where my feet were! So weird....but we all woke up around 730 and were ready to start another adventure!
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Monday, July 4, 2011
it's really hard to get into this blog thing!
WEll, continuing on my Adelaide trip, but I will give the 'spark notes' version! (c'mon we all love spark notes) and hopefully it wont be too long.
After our interesting beach night, we woke up to a cloudy day and headed for Adelaide. After finding where we were going to park the camper, we set off to go to the bigger wineries in the city. The first one we stopped at after a nice long rainy hike along the a river, was a more historical type of museum than anything. Just to taste a little bit of wine was like 20 bucks so we decided to take our chances and get a couple bottle that sounded good and yes, they were amazing! Okayyy go ahead and say it, WINE TASTING...REALLY! But this wasn't our last wine stop for the trip, but we were ready for some beer so we made a stop at a random pub with some live music and got our DRINK ON! Somewhere around 10 pitchers of beer later, the four of us were hammered walking the streets of Adelaide! Had no idea of what time it was, where we were or actually what was going on! Luckily we got videos of hanging out with a drunk homeless guy at the bus stop which was toootally worth it! Not in a mean way, but we definitely brightened up his day im sure. WE get back safely to the camper and start making some bangin' pasta! WE ATE soo much and that was the base of the four of ours' conversation for the next couple hours haha...! Penn and I passed out early and Harry and Josef decided to continue the once again, really long night. ( for my sake of remembrance, I forgot to mention about the spot we thought we were supposed to first park at! It was where the trashcans were supposed to go, half the size of the real spots and Harry actually managed to get the van through! Its hard to put a picture on this but just try to imagine a huge van squeezing through a little alley...)
Anyways, so we continued to another winery and the tasting was FREE and the wines were preeetty freakin' good especially the last one, the desert wine haha ( I didn't think that actually existed but Grease was right all along) so we're all not drunk just nice and chilled and we start heading up a mountain to maybe find a good hike while we were there. So the hike started off good and then an eerie fog took over the forest covered mountain ( I thought Predator was gonna come out!) so we pass a nice little waterfall and end up on a ZOO....i thought we were in an episode of the twilight zone! we walked by some wallabies and kangaroos hangin' out behind a fence and theres a little sign that says electrical fence...haha just guess what comes next?! Yes, we got Penn to touch it hahahahahaha! I almost died from his reaction and couldn't breath for five minutes! Then, somehow we end up at a ZOO....i thought we were in an episode of the twilight zone! We get in not knowing what to expect and then a million kangaroos come out of nowhere, some as tall as we were and luckily we put some bread in the bookbag so we gave a lot of the kangaroos a nice fiber rich lunch. Kangaroos fighting, sleeping and just hangin' out everywhere...i knew we were in the twilight zone now! So we finished walking the Clealand Zoo and were on our way home. Stopped once to get a nice last dinner in that Harry prepared which was good and then Josef took the wheel all the way home!
The End.....Finally
After our interesting beach night, we woke up to a cloudy day and headed for Adelaide. After finding where we were going to park the camper, we set off to go to the bigger wineries in the city. The first one we stopped at after a nice long rainy hike along the a river, was a more historical type of museum than anything. Just to taste a little bit of wine was like 20 bucks so we decided to take our chances and get a couple bottle that sounded good and yes, they were amazing! Okayyy go ahead and say it, WINE TASTING...REALLY! But this wasn't our last wine stop for the trip, but we were ready for some beer so we made a stop at a random pub with some live music and got our DRINK ON! Somewhere around 10 pitchers of beer later, the four of us were hammered walking the streets of Adelaide! Had no idea of what time it was, where we were or actually what was going on! Luckily we got videos of hanging out with a drunk homeless guy at the bus stop which was toootally worth it! Not in a mean way, but we definitely brightened up his day im sure. WE get back safely to the camper and start making some bangin' pasta! WE ATE soo much and that was the base of the four of ours' conversation for the next couple hours haha...! Penn and I passed out early and Harry and Josef decided to continue the once again, really long night. ( for my sake of remembrance, I forgot to mention about the spot we thought we were supposed to first park at! It was where the trashcans were supposed to go, half the size of the real spots and Harry actually managed to get the van through! Its hard to put a picture on this but just try to imagine a huge van squeezing through a little alley...)
Anyways, so we continued to another winery and the tasting was FREE and the wines were preeetty freakin' good especially the last one, the desert wine haha ( I didn't think that actually existed but Grease was right all along) so we're all not drunk just nice and chilled and we start heading up a mountain to maybe find a good hike while we were there. So the hike started off good and then an eerie fog took over the forest covered mountain ( I thought Predator was gonna come out!) so we pass a nice little waterfall and end up on a ZOO....i thought we were in an episode of the twilight zone! we walked by some wallabies and kangaroos hangin' out behind a fence and theres a little sign that says electrical fence...haha just guess what comes next?! Yes, we got Penn to touch it hahahahahaha! I almost died from his reaction and couldn't breath for five minutes! Then, somehow we end up at a ZOO....i thought we were in an episode of the twilight zone! We get in not knowing what to expect and then a million kangaroos come out of nowhere, some as tall as we were and luckily we put some bread in the bookbag so we gave a lot of the kangaroos a nice fiber rich lunch. Kangaroos fighting, sleeping and just hangin' out everywhere...i knew we were in the twilight zone now! So we finished walking the Clealand Zoo and were on our way home. Stopped once to get a nice last dinner in that Harry prepared which was good and then Josef took the wheel all the way home!
The End.....Finally
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