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Published: January 6th 2006
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Playing the part of honorary brits. But still Aussie at heart.. The Good: New Years Eve in Leeds was an absolute blast. We met up with Bridie's friend from camp Rich who had three spare tickets to a night club called Creation - destiny really. So off we went, looking damn fine considering we all did our hair and makeup on a moving train. Primping, straightening, curling, colouring - we did it all. Everyone thought we were mad. All's I'm going to say is, Virgin trains, thanks for having powerpoints. After being given free drinks (yay), free hats, and english flags, the clock counted on down. At the strike of twelve we were dumped with confetti, sang Auld Lang Syne (very loud), waved our flags and generally had a giggle. Robbie Williams Angels was played and the entire floor sang it at the top of their voices - hell, I didn't even know I knew the words. Then we went to what I like to call the 'dodgy old music' part of the club. It was soooo fun. We pulled out some old school dance moves (think the lawnmower, the sprinkler, the fishing rod, the shopping trolley, the salt and pepper grinder - they were all there), we got people crash tackled
Drifter
I got no idea what Im doing here.. Looking for more confetti maybe? by a bouncer (well, Jacki did after she pushed this guy off her. Hahahaha (actually lauren it wasn't that funny he didn't try and kiss
you!! but the tackling part was funny the bouncer came out of nowhere and whammo)), we got up on stage, we sang, we got our bums pinched by absolute randoms (ew)... It was all good (apart from the groping).
The bad After waking up new years day we realised that our plan to stay with Rich for a few days was thoroughly thwarted as he was leaving back to his parents house in a few hours. Well not to worry we thought... Hmmmmm. After frantically ringing bus and train companies to get out of Leeds (even ringing home for people to check the internet for us too) we realised that getting out was not going to be cheap or easy. After getting dropped to the bus station we were informed that the last bus to Edinburgh (which is where we had to go to fly to Ireland) had left 10 minutes ago and since it was new years day only one bus was going that day. Actually to quote the mean bus station guy;
We drank XXXX
and in pints too! "You silly girl its new years day what did you expect" We are goddamn tourists mate we have an excuse for our stupidity!! He really was an asshole though. This left us with no other option than to get a train. After we cabbed it to the train station (not costing us triple time as asshole bus man had told me) we had to pay £60 (I wont even do the conversion to AUD) for the 3 hour train trip to Edinburgh. We thought that this would be the end to our shitty day. But no..
The Ugly Arriving at Edinburgh we thought we would be fine finding accommodation as Lauren had rang Jon to check for hostels on the net and there were vacancies. APPARENTLY. Well no such luck for us. After walking around in the rain with our bags up and down hills across Ed we couldn't find a bed anywhere. This was nearly a solid 2 hour search until Lauren finally through her bags down and announced that she was finding the nearest internet place and booking her flight home. Suprisingly, yes Im still surprised myself, I remained positive and kept on trucking and we eventually
found two beds, well a bed each in 2 different hostels. I can honestly say though that I was very tempted to go home then and there too but we have figured that the way our travelling friendship works is that we both dont want to go home at the same time.
Ohhh I almost forgot. When Lauren awoke on the 2nd she found that someone had stolen her BIBLE!! The bible, our lonely planet european guide, our bible, was stolen. We are at a loss, the thing has been our source of knowledge for the past 5 weeks. We are not sure how we are going to live...
Anyway after the shit day we can only hope that the rest of 2006 will be better. Well not long now until you see us beautiful girls so we are expecting the Christmas trees to still be up and lots of presents when we get back. God knows we have spent a fortune on all your presents and on top of that they add to the weight we have to carry around. We must really love you guys!!
Until Ireland...
Jak & Loz are outtie. Peace... And
Rich is a champ
Thats him in the bottom corner. bring back the forks!!! (up yer kilt!)
Five Things We Have Learnt in 2006
- Edinburgh has a lot of hills
- Adding to our people not to trust. BUS STATION ATTENDANTS. They are also very mean to poor little Australian girls.
- Tights are nice to wear with skirts but a very susceptible to holes (for lauren). Although I claim ignorance that my bag caused them..
- Old school dance moves aren't ready for a comeback. You just look weird.
- Enjoy the fun times while the last. They seem to be outweighed over here (Good,Bad,Ugly).
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bridie
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so glad ur ok!
girls. i am devastated bout the loss of bible. so glad u made it out of leeds alive! chins up. cya soon.safe travels. bx