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June 5th 2007

Published: August 7th 2007

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Jen77

The tip we call home

We arrived in Brisbane on Saturday, late afternoon and found a spot to park around the back of a hostel where Mark & Mark, 2 Irish guys we met in cairns were staying. So we parked up gate crashed their showers then headed back to the van for some Goon. Now Nic had decided that she wasn't going our tonight , so I planned to head out with Marc, Marc and the Irish Girls (yep they're here again), but as soon as I cracked open the Goon, she was suddenly awake and ready to party. So about 2 litres later (a box contains 4 litres) we headed down the The Valley (the main pub/club area in Brisbane), drank way too much Tooheys ( Aussie Beer) and Jager Bombs (Jagermeister & Red Bull) and danced all night.

Fantastic night, but I have to admit that I felt very ill the next day, my first serious hangover since I left home. We didn't surface until 12.30 and then we both lay there for about n hour really needing the toilet, but unable to move. A disadvantage of a campervan, you can't just pee whenever you want. So that pretty much wiped out

The mad brush women

Nicole has nicknamed me the mad brush woman as I am constantly brushing the floor..

sunday. We had a wander round the shops and the hit Hungry Jacks (Burger King) for a hangover cure of Whopper & Chips. We then headed about 4km out of town to find a campsite, there was no way we could face another night out, so we parked up, plugged in the laptop and watched back to back epsiodes of Sex and the City, whilst eating Mars bars....awesome. Then about 10.30 we got a phone call from Paul the guy we met in Noosa, he'd headed back to Brisbane as his mate, Dave had to fly home for a job interview, so he came to join us on our Sex and the city viewing marathon.

On Monday we headed back into town to the Immigration office, as Nicole needed to sort out her visa, but they couldn't do anything, so she has to fly out of the country and then come back!!! Then we met up with Paul again and had a few scooners (bit smaller than a pint) of Tooheys. We'd planned to leave Brisbane today, but Paul persuded us to stay and have one last night out, as some friends of his had flown in from Sydney

I told u we were going nuts

Nicole decided to do the pose on the back of the Special K box

for work, so another night out it was. So we parked up again made our tea and then hit the Goon, then headed into town about 10pm, already a little worse for were!!! We met them in the bowling alley, then headed to a bar called Down Under. This time though it wasn't Scooners of Toohey's, but jugs..... One to many later and after dancing on the tables we headed back to the van, but on the way back Nicole really need to pee, so the lady that she is she decided to go behind a big sign, it wasn't until the next day when we walked past it, that we realised that the big sign was in fact the law courts.... So Tuesday we left town and headed for Surfers Paradise.

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