Thursday, January 1, 2009

like a sponge squeezed of all water

Well that's how i'm feeling at the moment.
I'm sitting on a leather couch and every time i move i have to peel my back off the material cause it's been glued on with sweat.

Not the prettiest picture to describe when talking about Brisbane, but its what i'm feeling.

So to bring you up to date- I'm in Brisbane. Nick and I flew up here in Monday to come stay with a friend- Keir, for a week. It was cheap, it was easy and i had never been here before. So I thought I'd check it out.

We flew up with Qantas, which was all fine and dandy, the flight was relativley comfortable, although the lady sitting next to me kept blabbing about these eggs she had in her carry on luggage, who takes that sort of thing on a plane?

They must have been some rare valuable tyoe of eggs or something cause it just doesnt make sense in my head!

Keir picked us up from the airport and we drove back to his place where we settled in then decided to catch the sea cat thingy into the city to have a quick look around cause it was getting on in the afternoon. I bought some cute shorts which im quite happy witha s they were down from $100 to $40.

so by this time i was feeling a bit hot... and sweaty.... and sweaty some more.

So we headed back to his house, i whipped up some dinner and then we started to watch Casino Royale.... where i promptly fell asleep at almost exactly the same spot i fell asleep last time i watched it.... Just before James goes into the casino... so i have yet to see past that point.

The next day we decided it would be a good time to use the christmas present i gave nick- which was tickets to WB movie world and wet and wild. So we decided to hit movie world. We picked a good day cause while there was a small crowd we didnt have to wait for too long to get on any of the rides. It was heaps of fun. I've only ever been to a theme park 2 times before, both being Wonderland in Sydney before it closed down. The first time i was in my early teens, and i couldn't get up the courage to go on the Space probe, but somehow managed to get on the demon... and screamed my lungs out the whole way. The next time i went on the space probe but refused to go on the demon.... i didnt want to go through tat again.

Anyways... so the first ride we decided to go on was Superman Escape, which is a really fast roller coaster- 4 positive G-forces and one negative. I was slightly apprehensive at first but once we got into it was realyl enjoying the short 30 second ride.
So we went over to the batman area, and did the space shot, which was pretty fun. the we did the batman ride 2, which was kinda lame with all the set up it went through, and when we go on the simul-coaster it gave me a headache more than anything else. So we decided to head over to leathal weapon, which was awesome fun. loved that one. from there we went to the wild west ride... we lined and got in out little boat thingy.. went through the first part of the ride until we got to the top of the ride, just before you do the big drop.
And we sit there, literally for about 5 mins. We're starting to get a bit worried by this stage. Then we hear a dreaded voice, telling us that the ride has broken and been temporarily shut down, but low and behold it launches us anyway!
We landed in a big pile up at the end as someone had hit their head or something and probably split it open..we sat there for about 5 mins waiting till we could get out of the craft.

Anyways, so we headed back and nick and Keir went on the lethal weapon again, i was feeling a bit hot by this stage and needed some air so i decided to sit it out. I did watch them go on the ride though, and it was amusing to hear nicks loud cowboy yell as he was twirled about on the ride.

After this we decided to head home for the day, as we were all a bit hot and bothered.

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