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Published: August 10th 2009
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So after our ridiculously early flight to Brisbane from Sydney we had a pre-arranged pickup courtesy of one of the founding members of the A-Team, oh yes Matador himself came and picked us up at 8am. Now if you dont remember the A-team from the blog entries, back in Laos whilst tubing we met these three ozzie guys and we partied with them all week. So we told them we were in town and they offered to help us out. So we had a bed to stay in and good mates round us. We were put up on a sofa bed at matadors house, while he shot into work we cruised down to southbank to check out the city. Southbank is lush a real piece of heaven in a city enviroment, its a man made beach and pools along the side of the river, must be really nice in summer. We then headed into the city centre where we had a little wander round and met the whole A-team for lunch. Optimus, Dynomite, Matador, Cleo and myself Shotgun were once again re-united. We agreed to meet at a bar called Jimmys on the mall after they finished work. We met them
about half 5, 6ish and after a heavy 10 pint session, during which i cant really remember but somehow we all agreed to go skydiving the next day! we then retired back to matadors for sleep. The poor guys had to go back into work the next day, god knows how they did it! So we headed to the shopping precinct the next suberb up, and one of matadors house mates (Dragon) kindly gave us a lift to the precinct. Whilst we were there Katie had a brain wave and decided right there and then she wanted to die her hair from blonde (that she has had all her life) to brunette, so being the humble boyfriend that i am decided we could spare the cash and let her do it. So then i had to kill 4hrs chilling in a shopping mall, yeah how bored was I!! but it was worth it cause now shes a dark princess! So after the mall we headed back to Matadors place where dragon and sabortooth were waiting, so we donned our finest backpacking clothes, and with a little help from dynomite's wardrobe made it into town to meet optimus and matador. We
found them at a bar that optimus had quite obviously not left since his lunch break! and matador was sharking some females, the gathering grew and we headed to a club called Fridays. We all went in and we managed to get in for free always a bonus, and optimus had a connection behind the bar that allowed us a very good 5 finger discount of selected drinks! so a very cheap night and we were all wasted by the end of it! at the end of the night matador was a mess dribbling in his bed, optimus was sharking some poor unsuspecting female, so cleo (katie) sabortooth and shotgun (me) headed home.
The next day we got up and we were on our way on a road trip down to byron bay, we pulled up and booked into a hostel, the skydiving had been booked for that afternoon but it turned out it was too windy and we would have to wait until tomorrow. So we headed into town for a beer and a look around. Katie and I then went to a backpackers travel place to book up our fraser island and whitsundays tours, we ended up
booking it with Peterpans, which i would strongly advise as the agents are not commission based so dont hassle you with high prices and just give you honest information, stay away from wicked travel they were proper rude to us in there and really pushy! we managed to get a package deal for $399 each which included, a day trip to nimbin, 2 nights in rainbow beach, a 3 day 2 night fraser island tour, 2 nights in airlie beach, a 2 day 2 night whitsundays tour and 2 nights in cairns, a bloody good deal i say! After this we headed back to the hostel and hit the vodka and Jagger HARD! we had a bbq at the hostel and a campfire, sunk all the booze we had then headed for cheeky monkeys, where dynomite and i dominated the pool table! drunk a lot of cheap champagne and had a great time. We actually ended up bumping into some irish friends we met in Koh pangan at the full moon party! so it was a great night of antics, on the way back we stopped to grab a kebab, and katie and I went to the pizza shop accross
the road, optimus came running over to tell us something and didnt realise the glass door was shut and ran clean into it, it was absolutely hilarious!
The next day we got up very fuzzy headed and realised we were off skydiving shortly, many people were not too enthusiastic, the bus picked us up from out hostel and we turned up and booked in, cost us $299 for a 14'000 feet skydive. Matador is petrified of heights and i genuinely have never seen anyone so scared of anyting in my life! so we got our gear on and with a quick briefing boarded the plane and set off. I was really excited and genuinely wasnt scared, katie was dead brave and wasonly a little scared whereas matador was climbing the walls! anyway i was first to go, the door opens and the wind picks right up and before you know it your hanging outside the plane then 1...2....3 your off, hurtling towards the earth at break neck speeds, and i laughed the whole way down i loved it so much, so did Katie, even matador was loving it once he was back on solid ground. Anyway swapping flying stories
in the bus on the way back to town, Optimus suddenly had to make a dash as he was going to be sick, obviously couldnt handle it! We was completely wiped after this, so for the rest of the day we chilled on the gorgeous beach and some wicked chicken burgers and after saying far well to the A-Team Katie and I headed for bed.
Next stop is Ninbin, this crazy hippy town which has been there for years! We'll keep you posted!
Katie & Scott
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