Fraser Island Here I Come!

Fraser Island

So we didn't last in Brisbane too long. We ended up walking over to the other Base hostel and talking to Jeremy about what kind of jobs were available. Basically, there were tons of jobs for me and absolutely nothing for the guys. He told me there were tons of barmaid jobs at the country pubs so I told him I would think on it and come back and see him if I am interested.
We went back to the hostel and hung out on the patio where we met a group of Aussies from the Sunshine Coast, which is about an hour from Brisbane. We made friends with them and one of them even offered to let us stay at his place next time we are in the Sunshine Coast. It's handy to make connections like that because accommodation isn't cheap!

The next day I was so bored of sitting in the hostel doing nothing so me and this guy from Israel who was staying in our room walked over to the Modern Art Museum. This turned out to be way more fun than I thought it would be! When you first walk in there is this huge Lego station full of white legos and you could just sit there for hours building things. Some people had made the most intricate, huge and awesome buildings. I sat there for about 30 minutes putting something together which was fun. After that we went into the "Balloon Room." This was literally a room full of purple balloons and you get like 3 minutes to just run around in it with random people. So fun and ridiculous. I felt like I was five years old again and it was awesome. There was also a Michael Jackson room full of just videos of people singing MJ songs--hilarious as well. We did this outter space optical illusion room, as well as sliding down a slide that went from the top of the museum to the bottom. Pretty efficient way of getting down if I do say so myself.

Throughout the day I had been thinking that I should just get out of Brisbane and go start doing some of the fun things I have booked and then just get a job afterwards. I was only just wasting time and money just sitting around in a city doing nothing so I might as well go off. When I got back to the hostel I was going to tell my friends that I was probably going to carry on in the next few days and turns out they were thinking the exact same thing. So we booked one more night in our hostel then booked Fraser Island. Fraser Island is something that is a must do when you are in Australia. It's like a 2 day, 3 night, 4-wheel-drive safari excursion across an island and you drive yourself. I guess there is kind of a guide person a ways ahead of you but they load up the vans with like 6-8 people and you just go and you camp out under the stars and swim and just have a blast. You are supposed to be 23 in order to drive it, so looks like I'm going to be one of the drivers for awhile! This should be interesting. I'm so excited to get there. We were going to stop in Noosa which is like a pretty island on the way but turns out we have to get to Rainbow Beach a night before to do an orientation for Fraser Island. Dang, oh well.

Yesterday it was raining all day so we couldn't really do much. My mate Jake and I walked over to this outdoor pub for a few beers just go get out of the hostel for awhile. The rest of the night was spent playing drinking games with our trusty goon. This morning we all woke up early to pack then had to walk over to the OzExperience bus to catch our ride to Rainbow Beach. This was the wooooorrsttt walk ever. We were running late so the boys were sprinting off to make sure the bus didn't leave, I was struggling pretty hard. I had my huge suitcase, my backpack, purse, 2 boxes of goon for our trip and my groceries. The bag to the goon ripped, everything was falling everywhere, it was raining and I was rushed. So after about the 3rd time I dropped everything I had to just leave my groceries in the middle of the street. I'm sure people thought I was some sort of crazy lady. One lady caught up to me asking if I wanted her to go back and get it for me but I just told her not to worry about it because I was in a big rush. Nice lady though. Luckily I made it to the bus on time!

It's been raining the past few days so we are keeping our fingers crossed for some good weather when we are on the island. Should be a good time none-the-less! I'll be sure to keep everyone posted on how it all goes!

Cheers