OK, so no more typing it in Word and then pasting into the blog. A: the blog doesn't like it and B: it for whatever reason turns out really small or larger than my other posts. And it annoys me.
So anyway.. I think I'm gonna have to stop doing the play by play about my days. A: Because it's really boring and redundant and 2: It's just not all that fun to write about. So I think I'll pick one or two things out of my day that I made a mental note of and elaborate/rant about those. That should at least amuse me enough to want to write about it.
Like today for instance. I had to take the ferry over into Sydney (for those of you who don't know, I've been staying on Manly which is about 30 min NNE of Sydney) to pick up my travel packet, and that was all good, there was hardly anyone on the ferry. But on the way back however (and let me just interject that today was HOT and MUGGY and sticky) there seemed to be about 10x more people heading to Manly and all of those people had the same sense of urgency that if they didn't group together and walk as fast as they could onto the ferry all at the same time that they would miss it and it would leave without them. When in reality, everyone is just in a mad dash to get a good seat up front or in back or on the sides for the outside seating to which there is little. So I grabbed an empty bench on one of the sides (it WAS empty when I sat down) but then Mrs Cha Cha Rodriguez and her sister and 4 kids decided that was a great spot to squeeeeze into as well. And I'm sure they would have been ecstatic had I just gotten up and moved inside, giving there Prada jeans wearing asses more space. But HELL NO! I was there first damnit and just because you made the idiotic choice to breed, doesn't mean *I* have to make room for *you*!
But it was fine and they gave me my space. I couldn't be the overly personal-bubble spaced American that I wanted to be, but it was still fine.
It's just one of those things that irks me. Like when you're getting on a airline that is not Southwest.... I'm pretty sure SW is the only airline that does NOT have assigned seats. So therefore W-T-F is the point of making sure you're at the front of the line to board?? Is your seat gonna magically disappear?? Is the plane gonna take off without you?? NO, NO NO NO. But I guess it's just a mentality thing that you always are wanting to hurry up and wait. Hurry up and get on the ferry to wait 10 more min for it to take off. Hurry up and get on the plane so you can wait for everyone else to get on and then wait some more for it to get ready to depart. Get over it peebles!! :)
I also COOKED tonight! Yes, that's right ladies and gents, she can cook. I just prefer the quick and easy than the "slave over a hot stove" method. Plus my man is usually the one who's in charge of everything in the kitchen. And I like it that way. But I have to say it was tasty! I made sketti... also known as spaghetti bolonaise here in Oz. But not only did I put sauce in a pan and boil noodles, oh no, I chopped onions, carrots and pressed garlic and added herbs!! Oh yeah *flexes cooking muscles*
Other than that, for those of you who are interested, I leave tomorrow for Newcastle and I'll be staying in my first hostel ever!! *DUN DUN DUUUNNNN* I'm skerd.
And a relief might be in site for ya'll since I don't think I'll have as abundant of internet access as I have had. I'll most likely have to pay by the hour to use it. So I'll most likely be getting on once a day and calling it quitz. So enjoy the posts while you can!
Cheers
~The on her way to really becoming a Quasay Australia Backpacker
OK, so, I’m too lazy to go downstairs and turn on the modem just to write this blog and then have to go all the way back downstairs to turn it off for the night before I go to sleep. So I’m writing it instead in MS Word to then wake up, copy and paste it into the blog. :-D Hey, it’s got pretty good benefits, it auto corrects! So I don’t have to spend all that extra time hitting the shift key or inserting a apostrophe. I mean, that’s a big time saver right there!
Anyway, another even more uneventful day. I’ll skip the mundane and move onto the neat parts. Went to the mall, finally found a rashie (look it up) that was affordable. Came back to the house after getting on one bus and missing my stop so having to get on another one and do the pity me dance so he’d take me to my stop again and let me not have to pay twice, (he was a super nice guy though, so the dance only had to last a second). Went down to Freshwater Beach and the swells were HUGE today! All over really, South Curl Curl and Manly Beaches as well were partially closed down due to such dangerous currents. So I went to the Freshie pool instead. Me and my new rashie swam around and then walked up on the rocks to watch the waves be all huge and powerful (hence the filmstrip image, and yes, it’s really mine. click on it and it makes it bigger.) It was awe-inspiring. It really just takes you to this open state of mind and makes you feel so fragile and small. I love those moments.
I’m in a kind of philosophical mood at the moment but too lazy to have to type out all of my thoughts. *lol*
So I’ll just say that it’s hard when people don’t understand you. I feel like I’ve been trying to fit into someone’s mold of what I should be or how I should act or say or dress for.. oh.. my whole life. It’s hard when you try to explain to someone this matter and discuss it, and they say the key to growing as a person and to learn is to listen, and then you respond and you have like, an hour long conversation, just to realize that they weren’t listening to you hardly at all and they were just saying what they thought was right in relation to what they thought you said or were trying to say. But later you just shake your head in helplessness that you’ve realized if they’d been listening to you, really listening to you, and had been paying attention to how you act and what you do, they’d know that you already knew everything that they were trying to be “helpful” or all life lessony about and that you were smart enough to know these things already. And then come to the conclusion that they probably don’t really care at all.
I think my problem is that I know myself, very well, and I am very intuitive about situations and people, so I know a lot already about human nature and behavior. However, I still have issues portraying that knowledge. I seem to have a continuing problem that people see me and know me and still feel that I’m some innocent, novice that needs to be sat down and taught a lesson about life or given little pearls of wisdom about how the way things are and how the “real world” works. Pretty sure, my whole life I’ve been sold short. It’s just sad to know that that still happens here. In my country of “everything’s perfect and nothing is bad”. Oh well, I knew it was.. I always know. It’s just the affirmation that’s disappointing.
Anyway.. For those of you who truly know me to my core, you’ll know what I’m babbling on about. For those of you who think you know but read this and think “uumm.. huh?” then you don’t really. But again, I think that’s my fault. And those of you who read this and are like “wtf has she been smokin’?” then you know me and you like me but you really don’t (and I’m telling you this truthfully) wanna know me that well. So yeah… and this blog is the example of why I don’t put my thoughts down on paper or type.
Goodnight
~The feeling existential Quasay Australia Backpacker
Well, I did it again. I forgot to blog about my day last night. But it doesn't really seem to matter much since only one person read my previous blog, and he already knew what it was about!
Anyway, I'll make it short and sweet as much as possible, since yesterday wasn't very eventful. Walked down to Manly, got bitched at by this pregnant wench about leaving Moose (Anton's Dog) tied to a piece of metal in a child's play area. Now, I do understand her concerns, however there were probably 100 other ways she could have gone about asking me to retrieve the dog. Some could have definitely been worse, but still. She has been labeled Overly Hormonal Prego-Bitch.
Walked to the wharf and grabbed a ferry over to Sydney. I had something from Apple to return and I wanted to stop into this travel place to talk about their deals for traveling the East coast. Well, Apple was great, and even though they couldn't make the return off the receipt they still did it and I got the cash I desperately have been needing. At least a little of it anyway.
Walked another like 2 miles to this travel place, which turns out wasn't a travel place at all, but a hostel owned by the same people. I went in and tried to ask questions and the girl looked at me like a deer in the headlights. Sooo that got nowhere fast. Luckily we were able to grab a bus back down to the ferry because by that point I was starting to wear a blister on my feet!
So we made it back to the house and I called this place and worked it all out. And on a good note it cost me a couple hundred less than I thought it would!
So now I have my 30+day backpacking trip all laid out and the first couple stops already booked!
I'll be traveling from Sydney this Friday (thursday for ya'll in the states) over to Newcastle, which is only a 2 hr drive away. From there I'll go to Port Macquarie, Coffs Harbour, Byron Bay, The Gold Coast, also known as Surfer's Paradise, then to Brisbane, Hervey Bay, Arlie Beach, Cairns to which I will then fly down to Adelaide and continue on the bus to Melbourne, Canberra and back around to Sydney.
What's after that has yet to be determined! I only hope to have some kind of a job.
I really need to remember to write this thing at night, I'm a bit more whitty when I'm not all groggy tired in the morning.
Aaannnnndddd I'm done.
Sorry it was again another boring post. Maybe I'll blog when I have something actually interesting to write about.
Till later
~The boring because I just woke up Quasay Australia Backpacker
I awoke this morning and suddenly realized I forgot to blog last night! Eee Gadds! How could I leave my 5.5 fans hanging in the balance like that!? How selfish of me.
Anyway... not much to report really. I took the BUS!! Dun dun duuunnnn... Quite the adventure really, $2 to get from Freshwater to the mall but then $3.20 to get from the mall to downtown Manly! Sheesh.
So I went to the mall, again, to purchase an actual working phone, got one. It's neat. For those of you who have vonage or the innate need to call. Here's my #: 011-61-0468-639-368
Hung around the mall, thought about buying stuff which in Dani land is almost as good as actually buying it. Then headed back to the buss to go down to Manly, got some really good food at this place called Four Olives. I ate there the first time too and it is quite a tasty place! Looked around a bit and then headed for this travel/internet cafe place that I hung out in when I was first here. I talked to the owner Crazy Dave about my trip up the East Coast. And he was pretty much a dick and gave me the brush off and talked like a crazy conspiracy theorist about corporate that and corporate this and they'll just take all your money and blah blah blah. Holy lord!! So I got the hell outta there and will never, ever, go there again.
Walked over to Quicksilver where Kalina's brother Jessie works to see if he could hook me up with a rashie. Well, they only sold men's wear there and I tried a couple on anyway, and they fit fine, but were really long in the torso... and rightly so, but just annoying.
Went down to the beach and hung around for a bit due to the fact I was gonna meet Gus at 4:30 for "a coffee", met up with him, caught up on the past 2 years briefly, saw his new office to which he just started his own business.. and then headed back to the house.. a very long 45 minute walk.. MY FEET HURT! *whines*
Got back to the house at about 6:30.. went upstairs to relax and do a crossword. Fell asleep for a time. Got some food, hung out for like 15 min and came back upstairs finished the crossword, read my book and fell asleep.
Ahh.. there.. wasn't that riveting!? Aren't you glad you waited a whole day to bask in the awesomeness of my nothing day!?
Yes, well.. I am that awesome.
Which brings me to the fact that I really have no idea how many people are actually reading this damn thing. So if you wouldn't mind, since you got this far, if you could mark one of the little buttons at the bottom, (even if you could just amuse me and mark cool) so that I see about how many people are actually caring enough to follow along with my boring life?
Please only mark one box- MOM (who'd probably mark all 3, 5 times over. She is my biggest fan)
Thanks!
Till the next great adventure OF:
~The sometimes not so interesting Quasay Australia Backpacker
Well, for those of you who said I should do a blog, ya gotta blog, and with it comes all the annoying and boring posts as well. (I really only post something every day in order to keep my mom sane).
Anyway.. today was pretty mellow. I went to Warringah mall, hardly did any shopping at all. Anton and Kalina took me and they had things to pick up, so it was a total divide and conquer method. Although Kalina helped me find a couple of cute tunics for wearing over my swim suit. They tried to get me to buy a large brimmed floppy hat, and I would have, had they not all sucked and looked ridiculous. I'm not a floppy hat kinda person.
So I did that, got some good sunscreen - *ahem* no jokes please - got a SIM card for my phone, got my account activated was super stoked and headed back to the house to set it up and make some calls.
Well, we get home and I put the card in my "unlocked" phone... and I don't have any signal. So I thought I needed to actually purchase some time, so I did... turned off, turned on. No signal. Tried to activate my account online.. no workie. So I called customer service. She said my account was active, I had plenty of $, so to try turning it off and then on again. I did... twice. Finally we tried putting the SIM in Kalina's phone and boom... workie workie!
SOOOOOo, it's my phone! Apparently when I "unlocked" it, I only unlocked it to accept any service provider in the states. NOT any service provider anywhere..... neat.
So, tomorrow I gotta go BACK to the mall, actually browse around a bit more and get an actual phone that will work with my new SIM. *sigh*
Other than that, I hung around the house, looked for jobs, made a PDF of my work samples, watched some cricket... yay....
Later though I thought I'd walk down to Manly and grab a bite, maybe take the dog, Moose, with me. Then Anton brought up meeting one of his mates down there and I was like sure!
So Moose and I walked down to Manly to meet my new friend Richard. Very nice, chill lawyer guy. We went to this corner pizza place and hung out for a couple hours chattin it up till about 8:30, then called it a night, and I got the awesome job of walking all the way back... up hill.. in the dark. Which was fine, it's really not a scary place here, there's hardly anyone out and about outside the pubs and restaurants. Although there was this sketchy, creepy person that was walking on the sidewalk ahead of us and Moose was pretty wary of them so I kept my guard up.. but it was too funny... as we were coming up on them to pass them, they let out a really long fart!! I really tried hard not to bust out laughing.. the creepiness of the situation kinda helped, I say "them" because it was too dark to see if it was a man or woman and I wasn't gonna stare at them to try and figure it out.
So yeah... walked all the way home (about 4 KM total) and my dogs are now officially barking. I wouldn't be surprised if I have blisters on my feet tomorrow.
So sleep well my friends, as I will be in a mini coma till tomorrow morning!
Cheers!
~The hobbling Quasay Australia Backpacker
Salaam, and good evening to you my worthy friends.
Today's adventures were pretty mild, so forgive the blandness.
Woke up early.. AGAIN.. chatted with my man and hung out. When Anton and his wife Kalina came back from their daily run they invited me to go down to Freshwater Beach and go for a swim (hence, the picture). Some beaches like Freshwater beach, have a open pool where it's encased by rocks or cement or what-have-you and looks like a pool, but it's all salt water. When the tide comes in, it fills and cleans out the pool, when the tide goes out it leaves the pool above ground.. pretty neat eh?
So we went for a dip and the water was COLD, but you get used to it after 30 seconds of flailing around like a dying fish.
After snorkeling yesterday my vertigo was still bad so swimming today made it worse, so when we got home I went and took a snooze, did some stretches and exercises that are supposed to help with the constant feeling of being in motion.. and it helped a bit! I'm totally stoked, you don't understand.. I've been living with this BS since I was 12, and NOW, 15 years later I feel like I actually have some kind of control over the situation. Looking at a computer monitor still makes my head feel woozy-woo, but definitely not as bad.
So after all that I decided to walk down to the Freshwater shops and retrace our morning route, only a little slower, since Kalina and Anton were walking like 15mph and I felt like a 4 year old trying to keep up with a power walker.
It was pretty warm today, and HUMID, wow... after living in the desert for 3 years it really makes a difference. I feel like I'm in a constant state of wet. But there's pretty much always a breeze coming off the ocean so it's nice, the sun though is intense, hence the sunburn (YEEEEES mother, I wore sunscreen today!)
So I just walked around a bit, people watched at the beach and came back up to the shops to grab a bite... unfortunately here, you can't pay for everything with a card, even a debt card. It's cash or nothin.. it's like that a lot around Australia, stores and shops don't like paying the $ to the card companies, so they do only cash or they do a min purchase amount. Luckily Anton had given me a couple bucks for just such an occasion since I don't have access to cash until next week (SUCK!) Grabbed a DELISH chicken pesto wrap and smoothie at this cute little place.. but here's the thing, it was $13!! YEAH, I KNOW! 5 for the smoothie and 8 for the wrap! The wrap was large so I feel it was worth it, but the smoothie was MAYBE 16oz and pretty darn tasty, but in the US I see it selling for like 4 something vs a full 5. But this is the other thing about Australia that some of you might not have known, is that they do not have pennies. Nope, no one cent. They have 5 and up. So everything that you purchase is rounded up to the nearest 5 cents. It makes it pretty neat really, I kinda appreciate it. But if you think that leaves you with less coins to deal with you're mistaken. Because they don't have dollar bills. They have 5; 10; 25; 50; and 1.00 coins. So instead of pennies ya gotta buck. When if you think about it, makes being homeless pretty beneficial when it comes to handouts. In the US it'd take you like a week to save up a couple bucks when people are droppin pennies and dimes in your hat, where as here people are droppin fifty and twenty-five and one dollar coins! But yeah.. I don't plan on begging anytime soon, I'll survive.
Anyway.. I moseyed on into a market after lunch and found the neatest invention!! Hand baskets with a extension handle!! Yeah, so like the hand baskets that you pick up in any super market, but with a handle that extends like on a roller suitcase!! Totally awesome, two thumbs up and fun for the whole family!
K, so I wandered around and found the things on my shopping list, and found that happily they accepted cards, however I did have to walk back to the house, and uphill, so I didn't want to go overboard. So I got some stuff, which of course was all pretty expensive, ie- *looks at the receipt from today* $4 for a 1/2 gal (2L) of milk, and $6.30 for a box of cereal... and not even family sized! Uhg, so I grabbed what I needed and headed back to the house.
Chillin on the couch with Anton proved to be an enlightening experience as well since he was watching the Australian cricket games happening now in Tasmania. I was like "what the hell is cricket about anyway? and why does it take 5 days to complete a game?!" So he explained it to me (which I will spare you the same brain numbing confusion). And now I know the point of cricket. I still this it's retarded that it takes so damn long and that it requires so many points, but whatever.
Later we sat down to dinner, and I gotta say, I love Australia for their food. It's so much healthier than the State's! But Anton and Kalina are really good cooks, so much so that they managed to get me to eat 2 things that I've never eaten before in my life! Cottage cheese and beats. I know it seems like no big deal, but those of you who know me and how picky and difficult of an eater I am are probably shocked and amazed right now.
The beats were good, and the sauce that Kalina made yesterday with the cottage cheese in it was pretty tastey. It doesn't mean that I'm gonna go out and buy a tub, but it means that the sauce with the cheese in it tasted decent and I'd eat it again if the occasion arose!
*sighs* sooo, yeah.. that was my day mixed with a bit of book reading and fussing on the internet planning next weeks departure, that's about it.
So now I shall go shower, get ready for bed and zonk out with hopes of being able to sleep to a normal Dani hour tomorrow ;)
Cheers!
~The sticker shocked Quasay Australia Backpacker
Wow... I've only been here a day and it feels like 5!
Today was fun, woke up early (still haven't gotten the body on the right clock yet) attempted to do the online crossword, went down for a bit of food, started planning for my few weeks of traveling the East coast of AU. Yeah, I wont be able to travel the whole country unfortunately. It's the wet season in the NW and it's all flooded so not so great for travel, and it would cost me quite a bit more than expected.. I'm lookin at just under 3k to travel just the East side!
So I semi-financed that out a bit, still need to do a bit more research but it's coming along. :)
Later I got to follow along with my buddy Anton to a meeting for his start up company, which was neat because they were discussing logo ideas and I got to put my 2 cents in having the design background and what-not and luckily they agreed with my input and are going in a good direction :)
Later we went for coffee (I had hot chocolate since I don't drink the black poison) and walked the dog. Ran into Eric Bana (actor from "The Time Traveler's Wife"... look it up) which was neat, I was all like "heyyyyyyy" BTW he owns a standard sized black poodle that needs training.
Went for a walk along Manly Beach over to Shelly Beach which was lovely. Then decided that it was such a lovely day that we should go snorkeling!
By this time I had met Anton's friends Matt and Wayne. Matt had to run after coffee but Wayne hung around and decided to go for a swim with us, so off we went.
The swim was great, the water was C-HOL-D! But once you got in and started flailing around it was fine. We saw a lot of fish... nothing that I could tell you about distinctly except for the large female grouper that Wayne had told me about that we ended up feeding sea urchin- THAT was kewl.
So that was tiring and we came back to Anton's and grabbed a bit of food and then crashed on the couch for a bit of a snooze. I didn't snooze much so I'm still pretty tired, but it was great..... that is.... until I went to take a shower.
Here's where the "way to go genius" comes in (in case you were wondering)-
It turns out that while we were going on our fantastic little walk around to coffee and to Shelly Beach.. my whole upper body that was exposed was roasted-toasted-and burnt to a crisp! OW
So when I was in the shower and washing my neck I was like "EOOWW" and got out and sure enough... I was a lobster's cousin. Aloe Vera you are my best friend!
And get this, did Dani bring sunscreen!? NNnoooooOOooo. WHY would Dani even THINK about bringing sunscreen... it's not like it's summer over here or sunny all the time... oh wait.
And again, all together now: "way to go, GENIUS"
Hopefully tomorrow will be a fun, not so toasty day ;)
XOXO
~The Crispy Quasay Australia Backpacker
Alrighty, I'm alive!
The flight was actually very awesome!
We'll take you to the play by play... over to you Jerry
Thanks Mary!
So hanging out with Samia was great, we went out to a very nice breakfast in Beverly Hills, mocked the 40 somethings that are still trying to be 20 somethings with their botox, mini skirts (with ruffles I might add!) and tank tops with the fake tans, plastic body parts and topped off with the most gaudy, LARGE jewelry pieces you could fathom. All real of course.
Then we went to the store got some stuff, chilled at her place and then went to meet by buddy Jesse for coffee. That was an adventure since Samia's phone with GPS sent us about 2 miles in the wrong direction!
But that was great and had just enough time to chill for 20 min before going to the airport. We drive up to the drop point at 5pm and I see there's this huge line inside, so we hurry out of the car and say our goodbyes and I'm off running inside to take my place in line.. just to find out that, that line is not the right line and that the line I needed to be in was around the huge group of people... soooo I follow along and go around to a spot where there was no line.... no one... and I walk up and am like "is this the right line?" and the steward is like "yep, come on up". So I get checked in, in like 5 min and go over to the ID checkpoint and there's another long line.. . so I'm like "ok, here's where I have to wait"... erm.. no
A man comes up to the back of the line 2 seconds after I step up and says "y'all in the back of this line go over to the other side, there's a new line open".. sooooo I go over there and am the first one up and get through there in 1 minute and am off to the actual security checkpoint. Get through that easy peasy lemon squeezy and am up at my gate by 5:20pm. NICE!
So I have like 2 hours to hang out before my flight, get a chance to Skype with my mom and my man and then get to board.
The boarding process was interesting... since there was no process. Everyone just kinda gathered around the gate and squished into the isle to get the passport and boarding pass checked before going down the forever-corridor to the plane.
So get on the plane and it's niiiiiccceeee, and HUGE. Full bar at the front, with first class and then business and then economy.. the whole time I'm lookin for my seat and I keep going... and going... and going.. till TA-DA, row 50 of 51. That's me!
The flight was very nice, a bit jiggly but nothing horrible. The food was pretty good too! I KNOW RIGHT?! I had a beef stew and potatoes with bread, pasta salad and cake for dinner, and then fruit crepes with yogurt, OJ and a croissant for breakfast (I know, no lunch, but it's ok.. I snagged a couple snacks from business class while everyone was asleep *evil grin face*
The plane also had built in monitors in the back of the seats and all of the options were FREE!! So I had movies, tv channels, tv shows, games, and music that I could listen to/watch to my hearts content! And the movies were good too! Recent releases and olden classics, not crap that's constantly replayed over and over on like TNT or something. That was the best, and the fact that they had these hand-held remotes to play with and a USB port to plug in a thumb drive or iPod was even neater!
So I didn't even have to open my laptop once, which was good because it was dead from skying with my loved ones earlier. But the stewardess was so nice she offered to take it back and charge it for me (even though I was informed that I would have a charger port on the plane and was kinda miffed that there wasn't one)
I managed to sleep a little too.. don't know for how long.. but my neck is sore enough to have made it at least a couple hours.
OH YEAH aaannnnd they also had pillows and blankets and free headsets! You don't realize how much you miss those things in the states until you get them back for a minute and realize how nice and cozy it is!
Made it to Sydney right on time, went through customs lickety-split and got picked up by my mate Anton and got to his pad and met his wife and dog and got the tour.
Interesting factoid: All the old houses and apartments and the like here in Sydney do not have air conditioning or heating installed, not even ceiling fans, (unless you put them in yourself) they figure that there's no real point in having them because it is only cold a couple months out of the year and doesn't get too hot cuz there's always a breeze that it's a waste of money.
ALSO: I have not YET come across a toilet that has water that swirls opposite of the US. All the toilets I've used this trip and the one before all cascaded down the middle and didn't swirl at all. But I'll definitely keep you posted if I come up on one!
Anyway.. I hope that was cohesive enough for you.. I'm still hella tired and am planing on taking a very good nap, so sorry if it's a little scatter brained and not as witty as I was hoping it to be.
More to come...
~The Almost Quasay Australia Backpacker
Well peebles, I FINALLY made it to LA. Wow.. OK so here was my day on Monday:
Get up at 7, get dressed and ready and packed and out the door by 8:30 (I know.. you guys love the play by play, it's so riveting!) Get to the airport by like 10 (way early) and check my bag, and Adam and I hang out till about 12, I stand in line for security and Adam is with me the whole way, then I have to leave him to actually go through it so I start to cry. But he just stands there and waits.. I go through it all and come around the corner where I can see him at the exit and I ask the security lady if I can go forward 2 ft to kiss him goodbye and she says no, that once I "cross this line, I have to go through security again" and that made me more sad so I started to cry again.. *SAD face!*
So anyway, past the dramatic sob story.. Get on the plane... 1/2 hr late no biggie... wait around on the plane for an hour.. finally taxi out to the runway.. hang out for another 15min... then we get a message over the intercom saying that the technical difficulties that they thought they had fixed while boarding aren't really fixed and we have to taxi back to get it fixed...again..
soooo 10 min later... another little voice comes over the intercom saying sorry, can't fix it.. we have to change planes.. and I'll sum up by saying that the little voice over the intercom said that we have to walk aprox 1/2 a mile to the international terminal to where our new gate is. So here we go!
I get there and another little voice (not really little too btw, they turn the volume on those things so high a fully deaf person can hear it) that we will have to wait another 15-25min because they're cleaning and restocking food on this place since it just got in from another country.
All the time though I'm actually really chill- A: because I know that this is the definite safer option and yeah, I'd like a new cleaned plane and freshly stocked food, sounds good!
And B: This is EXACTLY why I booked the trip a day prior to my flight to AU, because if it was late, delayed or canceled I still had a better than good shot at making my other flight on time!
SO we load up and finally take off about 1.75hrs late.. no worries
AND I sat next to this totally neat dood! He's the lead keyboardist for White Snake!
His name is Timothy (I call him Timmy) and he's totally neat and really really nice. Turns out he also was a keyboardist for The Eagles back in the day as well and that him and his other band mates were going home from a gig they had at Niagara Falls and that their travels had been pretty shitty thus far and that the whole plane switching was a pretty F-in cherry on the cake of their travel day.
And I find out that the guy behind me (who supposedly is supposed to also be a really nice guy, but whom I never saw the brighter side of) is the guy who wrote "Hotel California"!! So I shook his hand and told him that that was pretty awesome and he should be proud of himself to have inspired generations upon generations with just 1 song... but by that point he had gone back to ignoring me and doing his sodoku puzzles.
So Timmy and I just sat and talked for a couple hours and had great chit-chat. Turns out he's also a novice photographer.. I looked at his book and I liked it! Then again I'm no photo critic, but it was all very inspired.
So (yeah I know, I use the word SO a lot) we got in over an hour late, which was expected, but all in all it was a great flight! OH- FUN STORY: I fell asleep on the plane for like 15 min and just then the plane hit an air pocket and the left side (the side I was sitting) and BOOM down like a rocket for .5 seconds... juuuussst enough to freak me the F out and make me gasp out of fear, horror and shock as well as sending my heart into my throat... so I scared a couple passengers, but all in all it was good fun! :D
And today is starting out to be pretty good! Slept well and it's really nice and chill here. But my 2 friends who I haven't seen in years and years, who I planned on seeing on my one day here before I leave the country, I now CAN'T see because they have lives and they have jobs and gawdammit!
Oh well, I'm goin to try and see them anyway! And either way I get to hang with my girl Samia all day!!
Alrighty folks, thanks for reading. As of this moment I have 10hrs before I'm on the plane headed for Sydney. I'll post more when I'm on the other side (or down under as it were)
Lots of love
~The semi quasay Australia Backpacker
So, it was suggested to me (by more than one person) that I should create a blog to keep the people who love and care about me posted as to my crazy antics throughout Australia. My parents said I should try to "journal" about my days and "feelings".... yeah...
SO, getting my inspiration from one of my best girls Lizzy (who has an amazingly hysterical blog of her own) I decided to give it a shot. Lord knows I have a hard enough time keeping my own thoughts in my head straight let alone trying to keep them coherent in type for the rest of the world to try and figure out!
Oh well...
Day 1: As I sit here in a ridiculously expensive Mexican restaurant in the middle of the Newark, NJ airport listening to my stomachs unruly protests to what I just ate and the annoying, poorly chosen music being played, I can't help but wonder what everyone is doing right now.
Isn't it strange that when something happens in your life, something so huge that your life itself seems to stop and all the focus in your brain goes to that thing.. that it seems like the rest of the world should know and that you're innocently surprised when you go out into the real world and realize.. you're one of billions that are going about the world as people do every day?
I mean... it could very well be just me and my own self centeredness that thinks this way... but oh well.. it's my damn blog!
So anyway... i sit here and feel that because I'm moving to AU, that everyone in the world should know and share in my feelings... I know, it sounds weird.. it's hard to explain the feeling, but hopefully one of you reading this will sympathize.
As most of you know, I suffer from the most horrible and cruel physical ailment around called Positional Vertigo. And, Dani being the awesome intelligent shining star that she is, completely forgot to take her vitamins this morning, therefore leaving her body open to not only the many viruses and sicknesses out there on these lovely airlines but also to the repercussions of her inner ear! So now my head feels like it's floating on the inside of my brain (kinda like how you'd feel if you were on a boat teetering back and forth). AWESOME! :p
And with that said I will wrap up my first and hopefully not only blog posting since my head is getting worse and so is my stomach... damn airport Mexican food!
Love you all and thanks for reading!
