Friday
Departure date from Sydney I shared a cab with Luke as he was leaving for good to the USA and had to go to the airport around the same time I did. I got out the cab and used the electronic check in seeing I only had my backpack. I got in and went to security. I took everything off. I was going to put my lighter in the tray because I forgot to take it out with my knife back at the APT. I asked the security guy if he could throw it out for me seeing I didn't see any trashcans around. He asked me how many lighters I had on me. I told him just the one I just gave him. He gave it back to be saying I oculd bring only one on the plane. So one lighter mean you are not a threat but TWO and you are gonna take out the plane. So I made it through security and got bomb checked again. I don’t know if I posted it yet but I have now got bomb check every time I have left somewhere. I is a running joke every flight we take On the way out I have been checked. LAX to Sydney, Cairns to Sydney, Sydney to Thailand, Sydney to Brisbane now I can only be happy when they check me. I must look really suspect of a terrorist crime or really easygoing. At this point I had not shown any ID to anyone. I sat at the gate watching the MJ news and then boarded my plane. I thought maybe they would check my ID then NOPE. I got on the plane without anyone ever checking my ID. Now this is what is great about OZ no one cares about security cause it is safe. They are not worried that our bottle of water is a bomb. They don’t care you have A lighter or some scissors in your bag. I got to Brisbane and walked to my hostel. It was very nice and I guess was just remodeled. I was rooming with two guy up there to take a English language test so they can get sponsorship in OZ. They were both from New South Wales and went up to Brisbane to not have to wait to take the test. They both studied most of Friday night which was good cause I was tired and after walking around all night wanted to go to bed at a decent hour of the night to wake up for the Australian Zoo.
Sat
I woke up at 9 because the guy at the front desk said that the train left every 30 min. He was only Partially right. The train does leave every 30 min on weekdays on sat and sun it does not. So I got to the train station at about 9:20 and found out the next train didn’t leave till 11:11. So I walked around downtown Brisbane and took some pictures. Then I boarded the train for the 1.5 hour train ride. I got up to the zoo at about 12:45. I then got a map and figured out what I was going to see. I wanted to see the Koala show and the Croc show. So at 1 was the Koala show and 2 the Croc show. The Koala show was just like anything else the normal info about them and what not. But these one moved more then I had ever seen any koala move before.
The Croc Show was pretty cool other then they had a new croc doing the show and wasn’t very good. But they feed him and taught us how crocs hunt and how to not get eaten by one.
Then I walked around a little before the Birds of Prey Show. This was ok it was talking about the birds and they all flew around the stadium which was cool. After that I walked around because the shuttle didn’t leave till 4:30. I got on the shuttle and got back to the train station. The next train out wasn’t till 6:30. This really sucked cause the town had shut down for the night and the train didn’t come for another 1.5 hours. So I sat on the platform listing to music and watching people. I then got on the train and went back to the hostel. I got some food and played some pool with my roommate and this British couple that was on holiday. Then I went to bed.
Sun Travel Day
So I woke up at 9 because I had to check out at 10. I got ready got my back pack on and headed out for the morning sense my ride wouldn’t be in the city till 2. I went to the museums down by the waterfront. The museums are all free. So I walked through the science and art museums. You couldn’t take pictures which I found kind of odd but for free who can complain. At about 2 Doig picked me up outside of the Gallery of Modern Art. We then started our 12 hour journey home down the coast. It was really cool to see the coast and all the coast towns. We listen to music talked and stopped a couple times for food coffee and petrol. I didn’t get to drive cause I forgot my driver’s license in the APT but brought my Passport for some reason instead. We got back at 2 am and I just crashed.
Monday BRUNO
We went to black carpet event for the Bruno movie release in OZ. We got our spots and waited for about 1.5 hours before it actually happened. It was half an hour late starting because some group of people ran up to the stage and pour some red stuff on it. It was cool he came out on with a horse and in a knight suit on. Made a pretty good speech then walked through the people standing and made them kiss his hand. After that we went to get food and then I went to sleep. At this point only Evan and I are the only Americans I know of in Sydney. He leave Friday so on Tuesday we went to go see Star Trek. I also found out that after all the plane ride home trouble somehow Dan and I are on the same flight home from LAX to DTW which will be nice because of the 4 hour layover in LAX.
Some people may of forgotten about my flickr account the photos that are in this blog are from set found on my flickr account.
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