Annie!

ANNIE HAS ARRIVED! For anyone reading this who doesnt know me personally or is not friends with me on facebok (in which case, who are you, and why the hell are you reading this??) Annie is one of my oldest and bestest friends and she once drank a pint of snakebite out of my sweaty just-used hockey trainer when we were on hockey tour.

We picked her up from the airport at 1am Sunday morning, which was actually pretty convenient for us as it meant there were not many cars on the road to witness or get in the way of our navigational difficulties. We've totally forgotten how to drive in cities, and the satnav on Babas phone is a bit slow. Needless to say, there have been some tense moments in the van. ("You were supposed to turn there!" "Well you didnt fucking tell me soon enough! Fuck!")
We managed to pick up a tent for free along the way (its one of those pop up ones, which meant it took about half an hour and 4 people to figure out how to put it away), which is Annies home for the next 3 weeks, and even though the zip is a bit broken, as long as it doesnt rain she will be fine. Hope shes ok with large spiders!  
So far we have been staying in campsites which has made it fairly easy, when we start travelling down the coast and sleeping on the side of the road we may have to have all three of us in the van. Mmm, nice and sweaty.


So since the last blog, here is a tedious day by day update of what we have been doing for the benefit of my mother, who is the only one who cares.

Thurs - Met up with Perri, took free ferry across river, walked around, looked at big ugly bridge. Perris mum took us on brief driving tour of brisbane (turns out *all* aussies have a very aggressive driving technique) and took us up to a mountain for a romantic veiw of city before taking us all out for a meal that was super nice despite continually being referred to as 'the young man' by the waiter during the meal.

Friday - Met up with Kirstin ("I'll meet you at the beer garden!" "What beer garden, there's like a thousand of them?!" "<no reply>") , had a few drinks

Sat - woke up outside Perri's house, (not like in the garden or anything, we were sleeping in the van outside the house) walked around city again, next day was raining so went to DFO (huge shopping centre) with everyone else sheltering from the rain, found a campsite to stay at that was super close to middle of the city then picked up annie from airport, went to bed around 3ish

Sunday - Went into town showed a slightly delerius and jet-lagged Annie the markets etc then home where we hung out with Perri's mum and had dinner and a couple of beers then went to bed

Monday - Last day in Brissy :( Said goodbye to Kirstin and Perri and her mum then left the city to head towards Tambourine Mountain! Camped out - we have finally figured out how to get the tent up and down without spending 30mins wrestling with it, bonus!