Ok so clearly I’ve been slacking on this lately. I’ll try to get better. Saturday a bunch of my friends and I went for a hike at Brisbane Forest Park, although it turned out to be more of nature walk than an actual hike. The real hiking trails there are apparently really hard to get to and you have to have a car. Also, this weekend they began doing their controlled forest fires, so it’s not exactly the safest thing to be hiking through that. Either way the nature walk was around a lake so it was pretty, but like I said it wasn’t much of a hike. After this one of my friends Melanie and I decided that we wanted to go to the top of Mount Coot-Tha and then hike down it. To get to the top you take a bus and it overlooks the whole city, and then there are trails that you can hike down. Anyway, when we got back from Brisbane Forest Park we were starved so we got an all American meal at none other than Subway (yes it’s actually called Subway here, unlike “Hungry Jack’s” (Burger King) and “Donut King” (Dunkin Donuts)). After that we went to a travel agent to get some brochures on some cool potential trips. At this point it’s about 3:30 and we decide we’re not going to hike down Mount Coot-Tha, but we’ll still take the bus to the top and see the view. Once we finally figure out which bus we need to take and get to the bus stop, we have to wait for almost half an hour to get the bus. As we’re about to get on the bus, we double check with the bus driver that we’re getting on the right bus…nope. Thankfully Australian bus drivers are really nice and once he finished going through the route he was on, his bus was going to switch to the route that heads to Mount Coot-Tha, and so he let us get on. We finally ended up arriving at the top of Mount Coot-Tha and just in case, we check the bus schedule to see when the last bus would leave from the top of the mountain, 5:05. Guess what time it is…5:03. So basically we got to the top and went down and didn’t even really get to see the view too well. We did get to see it a little bit though and what we saw of it was gorgeous. So after Melanie’s and my adventure for the day, we were pretty wiped and just hung out that night. This brings me to Sunday, which I used as a catch-up day. I pretty much did work most of the day, nothing too eventful. This whole week was pretty dreary because it rained from Monday to Wednesday. So pretty much we all just hung out, went to classes and whatnot. On Tuesdays I don’t have classes and neither does one of my friends Carrie so we went to the travel agent to try to figure out our spring break trip. As of right now we’re going to go up to Darwin, go to some national parks there, and then go to Cairns (Great Barrier Reef) for the rest of the trip. Wednesday was Ekka Holiday. Ekka is essentially Australia’s Big E, and on Ekka Holiday the entire city gets the day off to go to the horse races. At the horse races everyone gets really dressed up and they drink the whole day. This would have been great had it not been raining, which made no one really want to go. We ended up just hanging out, and doing some grocery shopping, a good roomies day. At night, after the horse races everyone goes to the typical Wednesday night bar, the Regatta, so we did all go to that, which was packed and a lot of fun. We also planned our trip to the Gold Coast this weekend, which is where Surfer’s Paradise is located, so that should be a lot of fun. Today (Thursday) I decided that since I wasn’t able to see shark week I would just experience it first hand and so I’m going to get my dive certification with some people, which again I can’t wait to do. That’s really all I have for now, but I promise things will be getting more exciting soon. Love you and miss you!
Britt
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