This weekend was completely random actually. I was thinking of going down there (weather dependent) and then I found out on Tuesday that there is a family friend that lives there. What?! So yeah, I stayed with her for the weekend and it all worked out awesomely. Saved a bit of money and got to socialize a bit/meet someone new which was great. She lives outside of Southport so I took the train to Nerang and biked to her house from there, ~45 minutes. Little did I know that there were going to be San Francisco-like hills on my way. Okay, maybe not that bad but still, I thought I was going to die. Definitely got my workout this weekend.
Saturday I biked to Surfers Paradise, which ended up being 20-30 minute ride with traffic and everything. As I said, the weather ended up being gorgeous so I lucked out again. Once I got there I decided to do one of those amphibious vehicle tours around the area (Aquaducks). That was pretty cool and a good way to see the area in a short period of time since I only had the day. I chilled out on the beach for awhile after that getting some much needed vitamin D.
I went up into the Q1 tower a bit before I left Surfer’s and caught some awesome views of the entire area. The building itself is one of the top 20 tallest buildings in the world and it has one of the fastest lifts in the world. We went up 78 floors in like less than 30 seconds. Talk about ear popping. It was really cool, fastest elevator I’ve ever been on. The views were awesome, 360 degree glass encased floor with a bar/café type thing in the middle. Apparently it turns into a cocktail lounge after 8 on Fridays and Saturdays, too bad I wasn’t going to be there, it’d be cool. I took like 100 pictures but just put a couple below. It was hard not getting glare from the glass in the pictures though, bummer.
That’s about all I did that day (or all weekend, haha). I went back to the beach with a chicken kebab for a late lunch and watched some surfers and such. Awesomely chill day. I biked back and Pam made me a lamb roast dinner that night. SO YUMMY! We watched a movie called Happy-Go-Lucky, which I had never heard of before, and it was really good. I want to try and find it but I might have to order it since it’s a British film. It was really funny and I liked the lead actress a lot, it’s kind of different from other movies. Watch it if you ever get the chance.
I left around lunch time to get back home and do some laundry/grocery shopping. Turned out that part of the railway wasn’t working for whatever reason and I ended up having to take a bus in addition to the trains. Wasn’t that bad though, they had everything set up well, it was just a little annoying and took a bit longer. Could have been much worse though.
I am starting reproduction work on the trevally this week! Hopefully all goes well and it’s not too hard, it will be a good break from those otoliths let me tell you.
Countdown: 4 weeks…AH!
Fun Fact:
You need exact change for vending machines, it is rather annoying actually.
Surfer's Paradise
Aquaducks tour
BEACH!
View from Q1 tower, awesome!
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