Way to go GENIUS!

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