Eight Days Later

Sorry that we didnt write for so long, we were in Tasmania. Thats right Tasmania, it seems like just yesterday I found out that Tasmania was not just a Warner Bros. thing but a real place all together. Adam's smart like that. I mean I guess it's fair because I knew about Taz and he knows about Linear Algebraic Formulae... I'd say its an even trade.

Lets start from the beggining:
We went to Tassie with two girls, Jenn from the original plane ride (the 'original' plane... really you said that?) and an Irish girl Karen who Jenn met in her hostle.

Tassie Day 1: We are told that Tasmania is a lot cooler (temperature wise) than Melbourne and to expect pretty much pants weather. Which makes sense after all its as far south as you can go until you before you hit Antartica. So we get off the plane in Launceston and yeah... its 36 degrees. NOT COOL, in fact HOT. So I put on shorts, that was nice. Then we hired a car, ahh nuts they are out of cheapy cars, we have to get a nice Mitsubishi for the same price. (sweet car, see pics below) Launceseston is a very quiet little town, we stayed in a hostle above their loudest pub and met some new people who aren't really even worth mentioning. Good times

Tassie Day 2: We went to Cataract Gorge, it was absolutley brilliant (as Karen said about everything... literally) . Took a short hike and then got some icecream, mmmmm icecream. On a grassy patch by the patio of the icecream place was a kangaroo taking a lil nap (our first wild Kanagroo, his name is Hoppy... I comended Adam on his originality).
Then we drove out to a place called Beauty Point, where there is a place called Sea Horse World. I know what you're thinking but to our surprise it didn't QUITE compare to a Disney park. Jenn is obssessed with sea horses, but unfourtunately we got there literally five minutes too late. But the good news is that David and I snuck in anyway and took pictures. Apparently a sea horse dies or something when you take a picture but i'm pretty sure I didnt kill them all.
Then we took a short stroll on Greens Beach, here we took our first stepts into Australian water.
That night we headed to a town called Low Head hoping to see some penguins. We were too early for the tour so we headed into George Town for some chinese food. I ordered a 12 dollar steak, it was not good I had my favourite... chicken fried rice and honey-something chicken. Mine was great! Who would have guessed that a steak would be sub-par at a small chinese restaurant in Bumfuck Nowhere, Tasmania... I know we were just as shocked as you. oh yeah and the waitress was a white girl in a kamono... I rest my case. In a milk bar (convience store) after our meal we met the nicest Tassi ever, he spent about an hour with us after his store had closed giving us advice on what to see and what not to see in Tasmania.
That night we drove into a town called Birdport, laid out a blanket in the parking lot, grabbed the guitar and box or two of wine and had a blast behind their library. I mean you can't really beat a wine picnic under the stars. That night we slept in the car.

Tassie Day 3: We hiked up Mt William amongst a good amount of wildlife. Karen backed the car into a pole and scratched it (thank god for insurance).
We drove into a small town called St. Helens where we checked into a very nice hostle. Later we ate dinner at a place called Dohertys. Great food and huge dock patio seating that looks onto a lake. At the hostle we met a nice Jewish girl named Abby who lives in Melbourne. We got her email address and she is going to show us around the city a little at some point this week.

Tassie Day 4: We spent the majority of the day at Binalong Bay; probably the best beach I have ever been to. It was small and didnt have very many people on it, with the finest sand and bluest water you can imagine. This is where we had our first official australian swim. The water was freezing cold but the it was too beautiful to pass up a swim... needless to say there was a serious amount of shrinkage. We then burried Jenn in the sand and during a game of frisbee David put a bucket (big bucket) of sand down the back of Jenn's bathing suit and it looked like there was poo in there. I really wish we had a picture of that one... but we were laughing WAY too hard to get the camera!
From there we headed out to the Bay of Fires where we hiked over the really red rocks. Next we headed the Weldborough Pass where we took a short walk through the rainforest. Then we took a hike out to St. Columba, but the path was closed (warning: path may be unstable due to rain) so as sad as it was we took our pictures from a distance and continued to Ralph Falls. When we got there it was already starting to get a little dark so we took a short walk through some pretty creepy looking forest to see the falls. When we got to the falls there was an option to continue on, but Adam was afraid of the dark and thought that a snake might eat him (justifiable excuse i guess) so only Jenn and I went on and I'm glad we did cause it was amazing... foggy and a little dark, but amazing none-the-less. Adam got scared and impatient so he decided to continuously honk the horn (as if we could do anything from inside the forest) until we got back. Sometimes I wonder about that guy. Then we drove out to a town called Bicheno looking for a hostle, we found one but when we rang the number on the door no one answered. So we slept in the car outside the hostle. Incase you were wondering... car sleeping... not so comfortable.

Tassie Day 5: The hostle manager notices that we are in the parking lot and accuses us of sneaking into her hostle and trying to get off without paying. Then when David finally convinces her that we slept in the car she tries to charge us five dollars each if we want to use the bathroom. Thats pretty expensive just to pee and brush your teeth (yes Stacey I am brushing). We now officially call this woman the Bicheno Bitch. Adam wanted to call her 'That Woman Who Wasn't Very Nice To Us When We Were In Bicheno At That Hostel', but I thought this was a little more catchy.

Well we got up to day five, and now we are going to bed. Here is some pics for now and we will try to write about days six through eight tomorrow.

nice ride eh?

Having some trouble uploading more pics, so this is all for now. I will try to add more pics to this post later.

Kangaroos are kinda cool

I would like a pet kangaroo, mom, dad please take note of this. David and I went to an animal sanctuary with Fay and Bruce (who we should really get a picture of), it was very nice of them to take us out, and we had the time of our lives.

First thing-- I pet a snake, and I am totally scared of snakes, but I did it any way.

Second -- We got to pet kangaroos, which was really cool too.

Third -- David got mauled(Spelling provided by Caitlin so if its wrong bug her) by a Koala

Fourth -- and best part is that David didnt really get mauled by a Koala, but we did see some and their feet are really messed up.

Also we saw a whole bunch of wallabees and lil tiny mice looking things, and over 1.3 million different species of birds. David made out with a dingo, it was gross.

Here are more pics, but they are not from the santuary cause we have not taken those off the camera yet, we will do that later.

Adam with crazy lady on the tram..."stop touching my legs"

for Caitlin, Kristing, Janice, Jax and Saslove; I thought you would like this!

One armed Abadiginal Pirates RRRR in GOTHAM

We saw a pirate today! More on that later!

Its later!

Yesterday while chilling at a coffee shop in an area of Melbourne called Balaclava a man asked me for a cigarette. This was no ordinary man. He looked like Jonny Depp in Pirates of The Carribean only much dirtier, he spoke like Cpt. Jack Sparrow as well, only slurier...gotta go eat dinner,

more to come!

Here is what is to come...

Any way so he asked me for a cigarette so I gave him one, this is mostly because someone told me a story of a guy getting murdered for not giving them a smoke. So I always give the poples the smokes.

Then he said, "RRR where you be from"

so Jen was like "Canada"

then he said "GRRR you be in luck besfs cause I am a trrruue Ambiginalala"

then I said "Do you mean aboriginal?"

and he said "RRRR yes aboriginal"

he only had one arm....

and thats the story


here are some pics


That is just messed up

the girls'ish

BatmanFinds Australia

We learned an Intersting fact about Melbourne today, aparently it was discovered by Batman, yes you read that right, BATMAN. Like nanananananananananana MELBOURNE.

ok so to explain adam's stupidity i feel that this needs some clarification. i'm sure at this point you're either thinking that we are drinking way too much (which may infact be a possibility) or that you read that wrong, but the truth in the matter is that a man named joe or jon batman accidently stumbled across melbourne while sailing and to cover up his mistake claimed he had discovered new place to live. so yes, the caped crusader discovered melbourne (aka gotham city).

We have decided to potentially go to Tasmania at some point next week. I love my life! David missed the superbowl cause I didnt wake him up. i was mad! It was weird superbowl sunday on monday morning an all. but i cant wait for tomorrow mornings episode of 24 to be live webcast by my loving wonderful parents who i will disown without hesitation if they forget!

yesterday we had one of those encounters that every canadian dreads when travelling abroad. while at a tramstop we were approached by a 17 year old girl who actually said "oh, your from canada... my cousin is canadian i wonder if you know him". and to make a long story short it turns out that her cousin is infact saul sax. yes i flew half way around the world and totally fed into the ignorant outlook on canada... ps chunks can you tell saul his cousin in melbourne says hi.

Well, we are off to a bar that has one dollar pots of beer...so here is to tomorrows hangover.

Here is a pic, its old we have to load the new ones from the camere and are way too lazy do it now.

What is Quebec doing here?

A momentus event in Melbourne, Australia was yesterdays Gay pride parade. Given that yesterday was sunday, and not so much was open, and since gay pride parades are always a good time, david and I packed our "backpacks" and headed down to the parade. BTW our pride parade compared to their pride parade is like comparing Christmas with a nice lunch, they dont even have any floats. But the spirit was their, and that's what counts. RENT was also their, which was weird, btw we are going to see the first showing of RENT in Victoria ever! The coolest thing for us was to see a Canada group marching in the parade. Right in between the girls leather club and the Mens bears club, was a guy hoisting a huge Canadian flag. And to the left of him a guy hoisting a huge positive space flag, and to the left of him a guy hoisting a giant QUEBEC flag. What the hell is Quebec doing here, they are not a country or even a thing really. Damn seperatists are campaigning for sovergneity in Australia? I just don't get it.

Also worth noting: hot German girls are a lot more fun than you would think.

here are some pics.
The steering wheel is totally on the wrong side, and I have a big nose.

This is David and I riding the Tram (what we would call street car),

they also have trains here (which we would call trains)

I look really bad in this picture, david looks as he does in every picture.

Fuck You too Airport exchange rate, and Jet lag does not exist

We are finally in Oz, and adventure number one is Adam's lack of money. Its always a good idea to bring some cash with you, so i brought a few hundred dollars american. This costs 375 CDN and is worth a little over 425 AUD. But not at the stupid Sydney airport, where they offered to give me 320 AUD for it. Note that is a $100 difference. But I still needed some cash so I did exchange 30 USD and got 29.50 AUD for it... you read that right, and yes the airport rips you off that much.

On a side note, David and I are barely if at all Jet lagged, the flight from LAX to Sydney was not bad at all (the 13 hours really seemed to go buy pretty quick).
We were at the Sydney airport for five hours before finally getting on a plane to Melbourne, which is where we are now. (Long first day, note the 23hrs of plane time spanned over 28 hrs.)

But it was fun, we had good company.
A pure tribute to David and My ability to make friends quickly, we met a whole bunch of backpackers in LA on the stop over and went for dinner together. Now we have some friends... Well I have some friends, I dont think they like David.

Here are todays pics