We arrived in Byron Bay at 12.30pm on Wednesday 16 May and checked into an apartment at Holiday Village. We walked down to the beach and then looked around the local area. When we returned to our apartment, we met the other 6 housemates (Rich, Dan, Ian, Matt, Alex, Kev) and we chatted to them all afternoon. At 6pm, we went to our hostel BBQ and started drinking with the other 50+ people that were there. At 9.30pm, after a lot of beer and cocktails of wine, vodka and orange, we went across the street to a bar called Chunky Monkey's. It wasn't long before people were dancing on the tables with everyone very merry. At closing time at 3am, a few of us went down to the beach for a while (including Alex in
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