We stayed at Giligans hostel which is one of the more popular ones because it's based in the center of the city and has a good night-life that goes along with it. We had an 8-person room and some of our other friends were sharing another 8-person room right across the hall from us. 16+ uni kids staying in a confined space, it's a wonder we didn't get kicked out, but we definitely all managed to have a good time!
Good Friday some of my friends went Skydiving while the rest of us took a self-tour of the city. It's a very tourist city with many souvenir shops and activities to do like skydiving, white-water rafting, reef tours, ATV rides, bungee jumping and heaps more.
Saturday I spend the afternoon with a couple mates up in Kuranda where the rain forest is! It was also a tourist town filled with small shops and markets. After we had a small picnic and the beginning of the trail we hiked through the trees and vines ending up at a huge waterfall. It was definitely worth the twisty turny roads we had to embark on both up and down the mountain to get there and back.
Saturday Night we bought tickets to the "Ultimate Party" which may have been an understatement... We started at Giligans with a BBQ and a couple games, which of course I had to participate in! And it was definitely worth it! I stood on stage while a girl took a piece of bubblegum and moved it up one pant leg, down the other then blew the biggest bubble with it. All I had to do was stand there, I couldn't help her at all. And for that I won a day trip to the Great Barrier Reef worth $129. Which means I'll have to go back to Cairns sometime in the next 7 weeks! After that we went on a party bus to 4 other clubs and had a wonderful time with discounted drink prices and HEAPS of pizza. At first I wasn't sure there was going to be enough, so I grabbed pizza by the handfuls. Little did I know a half hour later they would STILL be serving pizza, and I would STILL be eating it. Easily one of greatest nights since I've been in Australia.
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| Rain forest waterfall |
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| WE LOVE PIZZA!!! |
Sunday Ryan had an inline hockey tournament and was playing for 3rd place so I went to watch his game with a couple other friends. They lost, but it was interesting watching an inline game vs. an ice hockey game. I think I'll stick with ice hockey.
The friends that I went up to Cairns with left on Monday morning, but I decided to stay and get a lift back with the other friends staying across the hall. The rest of the weekend was spent sleeping, eating, drinking and dancing. We left Tuesday morning and started our long tiring journey back to the Ville. We stopped at Crystal Creek to jump off rocks into the river, and slide down the rock slides. I would show you what I'm talking about and the beauty of this river, except my camera died by the end of our 5 day adventure. No worries though, I will definitely be back to show you what it's all about.
Now it's back to uni and the joy of essay writing. I have 1 essay due in a week, 2 more due in 3 weeks. In between there I have a couple quizzes, one final for my indigenous class and more things to see and adventures to go on! Cheers to you all and Happy Easter, hope you're having a great spring!
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