Meegan and Jen's Australian Adventures

Next it was onto Byron Bay, best described as a surfer/hippie town. The hsops were great, we actually wanted to go into most of them... and much to pixies delight there was a great fairy/pixie theme all over the place!!!
During our wandering we were handed a sheet which got us into a local bar called the cheeky monkey, for a $5 dinner. You see it was Australia day (Jan 26th), and there was much shananigans to be had. So being tempted by cheap dinner that we didn't have to make, PIxie and I gave in to the temptation.
Well, lets just start at the begining, bad dinner..... but cheap so not complaints. During dinner all of a sudden Pixie turned to me and told me to go to the stage. Me being the brilliant leader I am obyed without even asking what it was for. Well next thing I know I am on the stage with 3 other poeple involved in a beer tasting contest (we were each handed 2 glass's and we had to guess which was which). Well I was the only one who won (although I engaged the help of two guys in the front row). So we got a free pitcher and two glass's of beer out of the deal.
We met two local guys, who shared a drink with us, and as it turned out, Pixie and I finally got out of our "dry" spell. The four of us booked it to the beach for a quick session before back to the bar. Dancing dancing dancing..... (we may have ditched earlier two gentlmen by this point, although one of them kept showing up with more beer and then disapearing.... odd boy, very very odd boy). We befriended the guy who gave a digery-doo (sp?) show at the bar a little earlier in the night... Oh and one other side note, one of the guys who help me win the contest became a little crazy and we watched three bouncers forcefully remove him from the bar in a very interesting "pin-down" type manuver....
Woke the next morning for something we had been waiting for for quite some time.... ON TO NIMBIN!!!!! WHat to tell you about NImbin... well it was everything we were told it would be and then some.... (Clairissa C, you NEED to go there!! And DAve W you need to become the mayor!!!!)... OLDSChool hippies as far as the eye can see. We made it to the first shop before we were asked if we wanted to buy pot... we made it half a block further before our first cookie offer... Sitting and watching the community work was very very interesting! There was even a rally against the prohibition of marijuana going on the day we got there. I want to go back to the cookie for a min. here. There was an entire business run on these cookies, and there were cookie ladies EVERYWHERE. Why don't we have cookie ladies back in Canada? HUH? Well, I guess I could be the brownie lady..bwahahahaha. Well PIxie and I stayed in Nimbim for two nights.... and rarely (other than our trips to town) left the good'ol campervan... really there was no need! We had pot again.. although on a slightly less positive note, it rained alot, AND we discovered that our mighty campervan leaked... shitty shitty deal!
So basically this brings us to the end of the road trip.. the next night we booked it as close to Sydney as e could... packed... played on the water slide (which may or may not have been for 12 years of age and under, AND we may or may not have convinced a 60 year old to join us on it...)
The next day we headed to Sydney... got reall really really lost.... but in the end it all worked out... and now here we are, back in Sydney!