Gold Coast

These parrots might look cute, but theyre a royal pain in the ass. You dont know theyre there until the afternoon when they start making so much noise! You just want to dug a whole in the ground to get away from it.. Me on Broadbeach in Gold Coast. Dangerous sun in the Cancer state! Sunset. Nice and almost chilled. Doesnt look tempting at all........

Australia hates me!

It is really throwing all its got towards me. Sore throat: CHECK, sunburnt shoulders: CHECK . Well, it is probably my own fault being the most stupid traveller in the world. Sleeping with the fan on all night, and going outside in cancerstate Queensland without sunscreen.

Am on the gold coast at the moment:) really nice place, but the weather have been varying. yesterday i had a nice walk along the beach as the sun was setting. lots of people surfing and bathing, and just as i was 200meter away from my apartment, the skies opened up and a massive rainfall fell over us! got soaking wet in 2 min! woop woop.

nice to go inside and take a shower after that! now im at starbucks, got to get back and get my beachtowel, the beach is waiting for me. YES, i do have sunscreen. 30+, happy?

Taronga Zoo

• Yesterday was a really fun day :) Went to the Taronga Zoo with Alexandra were we played tourists with camera all day long. Had great fun trying to find out which of our friends resembled each of the animals we saw. :) If you find any good matches, write a comment;)
• We saw lizard keeper talk, elephant playtime and the seal show. Cant choose which was more fun. The baby elephant running after a football between the big elephants trying to be serious doing their tricks, or the cute seals showing off for the audience :)
• Suddenly we found ourselves not being able to leave the gorilla display. They were so incredibly fascinating to watch! Its probably cause the resemblance to ourself is so big. Hehe.. It was just like watching a normal human family hanging out. They were all hanging inside in the shadows. Big papa sitting in the corner, eyes closed but keeping sure that nobody was doing any tricks. Baby gorillas running all over the place playing. One trying to seek the attention of a grownup sleeping, one hanging around the neck of his mum, and one just swirling round and round and round. This was clearly the gay one... The rest of the grown ups were just trying to find a comfortable sitting or lying position in the heat.
• When we finally did manage to leave our relatives, we had a look at the koala bears. I want one of them! Too cute! They were all hanging in the trees, sleeping, shifting their position every now and then. Had to buy a mini stuffed koalabear and a koalanecklace in the zooshop before leaving. When is the next time I go to Australia anyways? ;)
• Since my shoulders had started turning slightly red, and the zoo was about to close, we took the ferry back to Sydney, bought a Starbucks frappucino and headed back to Manly. Just in time for the sun to disappear and a thunderstorm to come! Rained like crazy last night, but back to crazy warm today!

Taronga Zoo

Lazy day in Manly

Had a very quiet and uneventful thursday. The most exciting event was when Alexandra and myself went to Coles. (grocery store) We went crazy. Started with one basket, soon found two, then gave up and found a big cart. After paying a small fortune for the stuff we found out that the only solution was pushing the heavy bugger up the hill to the apartment. Even managed to fit the thing into the elevator so saved a few calories there! :) Had a very nice tacochicken dinner that night!

Australia Day:)

• So, Jan 26th, australians celebrate the first fleet of europeans coming to Sydney. They do so by taking the day off, dressing up in the australian flag, and drinking all day long. Nice tradition!
• I had an extremely hot australia day. The temperature was probably well over 30degrees and I spent most of it walking around in the city. The Rocks is the area around Sydney and it had lots of free concerts and markets this day. I had fun walking around looking at all the street performers. Including an extremely gay one called Jamie on a 4 meter long one-wheeled bike! Great fun.. People watching is a great activity!
• After spending some hours at the Rocks I took the ferry back to Manly with Linn. Then went for a run on the beach. Even though it was 9 in the evening and pitch dark, we were sweating like pigs. Too hot for a norwegian girl who just survived a week of -30!
• After a shower and some dressing up we decided to go out :) Hehe, didnt last very long. Had one drink and then gave up because of the heat. Lets try it again later this week!
• other than that, not much exciting happening. Just enjoying time off ! :)

Australia Day