Meegan and Jen's Australian Adventures: February 2005 Archives

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February 20, 2005

So Mr. New Zealand, we finally meet....

First it was yes, then it was maybe not, then yes again, then definatly no, then defiantly yes...... you guys must have been as confused as we were all were when chad told us about the "personal" business his mom was opening..."but who would sleep with her Chad? AND PAY?!?!?!"

So our first run-in with customs... No Pixie you CAN'T take a swiss army knife on a plane. A moment of silence for her lost friend........ Then there was the cranberries in our peanuts, and dirt in our boots.... o.k. guys, are things getting a little out of hand? But in the end we managed to meet up with Pete (a friend I had met through Dave W the year before). It doesn't take long for a friend of his to drop by, and already Pixie and I are in the middle of a search for "thepot".
The next day things went a little down for me, my imune system finally broke down and I caught Pixies wonderful sickness. So once again, out of commision.
We have caught most of the sunsets since we have been here. Two min behind Pete's house is the beach, and you can see the South Island. Date night continues, only this week it was barefoot walking down the beach after some frozen goodness (obviously at sunset).
We made it into Wellington earlier this week, cute busling town! We went to the museum, and it has the ROM beat hands down! Although you can tell there is alot more money in it.
We have also made it to the pub (the theory was that the alcohol would be good for my throat, and thats what we are sticking to). The local band that was playing was really quite enertaining!
Tomorrow Pixie and I are renting a car and taking some time to drive up to the top of the north Island. We have heard soe great things!! So stay tunned!!

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Sydney.....Take Two

And action.... this scene of our drama unfoilds in an already opened chapter of our Australian adventures... this time we drive into Sydney (to return our Campervan).......

And in beautiful M.J. and Pixie style we obviously get SERIOUSLY lost!! However, fret not, for like always our characters manage to find there way safely to the required spot!!!! Once in Sydney Pixie and I stayed with a family contact she had. And boy was it a welcome change from the Camper Van lifestyle. They fed us sooo well (we felt guilty, and tried to get them to let us babysit there two kids for a night, but they would have non of it!), Thia, steak, lamb, great salads.... FABULOUS.
We would make our way down to the beach (Botany Bay)each day to get some sun, play guitar, and just chill-out. On one eventful day a guy went by us, jumped into the ocean fully dressed, then came back to chat. He tried to convince me to come busk with him (me play guitar and him sing)... We very quickly were overwhelmed by the self proclaimed ADD... although we did make the first venture to try the busking thing, we decided to back out when 10 min later he decided it was time to move again....

After a few days it was back to Epping (a part of Sydney where my friend Sarah lives) to hang out until it was time to go to New Zealand (the 10th). We managed to see such programming as the OC (shame we know), desperate housewives, and lots of Sex and the City. Pixie and Sarah both got sick (although I managed to avoid it while in Sydney), so it was lots of R&R. We did manage to have one imporomptu night of drinking with some guys who live in the appartment above Sarah's (and Pixie and I broke into our second pool while drunk in Australia). Eventually things, that evening, got a little sketchy, lets just say crazy ex-girlfriend and things being thrown. The moral of the story is: Never leave a Nalgene on the railing from the appartment above your's deck, especially if you can't go back up there and you aren't tall enough to swing at it with the broom yourself (bwahahahaha, Pixie!!)
Things were generally peaceful in Sydney and we were grateful for them opening there homes to us!

ONTO NEW ZEALAND

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February 08, 2005

No more porn....

So, we just discovered all the wonderful porn advertisments that had made there way onto the comments in our site... sorry to all those of you that were finding them useful, but we have now deleted them.... I know, we just have no sense of adventure!

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No more porn....

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February 05, 2005

Back to the road trip....

So we left Mooloolaba, and got back onto the road for the last leg of our drive down the east coast!!

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!

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