Australia - Day 1

My great australian holiday diary

Each night for 10 days, I would reflect on the day and write down the stuff I/we did during the day and the funny/interesting things that happened. So here's where i whip the diary out (my sis's diary btw, i don't have my own, hehe) and recall back the memories during my trip and write it out in here. It's much shorter in point form in there, so i've elaborated it more in here.

So behold...

Day 1

7 March 2009, Saturday

Weather report: Sunny and hot during the day, cooling during the night

- Reached Gold Coast airport at 7.30am (Way beyond excited at this point)

- Got a cab to Santana, Surfers Paradise. Reached at 10 am. Costed $AUS 47.50. The family who owns the resort is so funny, friendly bunch of people really. The dad takes care of the counter, their daughter and son hangs around, mum is away in Sydney for a couple of weeks (their dad kid around by saying she left him for someone else*sobz*). haha. He can even crack jokes about getting his 16 year old son hooked up with me. Wtf. Australians are naturally funny i think. Or it's just him.

- Bought tickets to Movie World and Sea World from him at $AUS 115 (slightly cheaper if you buy two at a time, maybe like $AUD 20 cheaper like that)

No lock on the doorknob. Weird.

The not-so-pretty-but-can-do-laa view

- After chillin about in our crib and unpacking our stuff, we walked to this nearby beach (name unknown) which is SO beautiful and not that many people too. White soft sand and the heat from the sun made it damn hot to walk on barefoot. But canlaa.

The view of the unknown beach as 3 pics combine.

- Then walked to Broadbeach. Lots of eateries, clothing shops, a small mall, a park and a beach. Once dad went into Woolworths (equivalent to Cold Storage), he fell in love with that place. It's like a boy who has found his playground, damn hard for him not to go in there. He bought alot of groceries to cook instead of eating out. Mainly items to cook spagehetti.

There's alot of these Ibis birds around

- Anyway, by then it was already 5 something. Closing time for most places, unless you're talking about those shops by the sidewalk in town. Those will be open till 10pm.

A view of the outside of Santana Holiday Resort Apartments.

- Went home, cooked, makan, watched some tv. There's alot of nice channels in Aussie and i've found a love for watching morning talk shows and the news! For everything, there's always humour. Friggin even the news had funny comments from the news anchor and public. They're quite open what with TV-ads telling the public not to vote for this dudela and that. Amazing. We can't have that here, if not ISA will come running down the mountain, there they comeeeeee. *just had to break into song guys* =)

- The weather was so cooling, so after dinner we took a stroll out to Surfers Paradise town. Mind you, our place at Surfers Paradise is pretty strategic. We can walk to almost everywhere! Well, except for theme parks. Bought some souvenirs like coasters there. And tasted the Copenhagen ice cream. Ahh, that's some good shit right there. Sis and I got a double scoop ice cream, our flavours were midnight cookie and cookies and cream. Beautiful combo. So creamy and huge with choc and peanut toppings. Costed $AUD 6.50.

Dad syiok sendiri with the props, while sis (and also dad) is obsessed with the chilled coffee in a bottle.

- I loved walking around town. But while walking, from up above at the hotel or something, guys were yelling out chinesy/japanesy words. Kind of like mockin asians. But who cares, sis and i laughed it off coz it sounded really funny.

Pssst.. btw, you know what? After 11pm, phone sex ads start to appear on tv! *kinky grin*

*in a horny seducing voice*

"Hi, i'm Olga. Would you like to see my sauerkraut?"

O.O <--- Me

Anyway, stay tuned to read on what i did on day 2... Here's a sneak peek =)