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Before we left
Me, Flip and Jen getting ready for our adventure with Holly Alright so it's been awhile since I've wrote in this thing but what can I say I was never one of those girls who kept a diary. Alright so I believe we left off after my amazing turn as an Australian baseball player. I think I have a permanent bump on my leg from that ball, it's hot. Anywho, so that weekend we went on an amazing field trip for Marine Science, did I say amazing, I meant crappy. If I ever tell anyone I want to be an oceanographer, laugh, it's a joke. I'm not even going to bore you with the details of that trip, I'm just going to say this. You hear, marine science field trip on a boat, you think sounds like fun right?...you think wrong! Alright so now we get to the good stuff, that's right people, it's been eight weeks,we're sick of school, it's time for ...Spring Break wahoo!!!! That was for you mom, I know you're thinking about Friends. Alright so the only problem with that is that it's not Spring, it's fall so the Aussies refused to let us say Spring Break it had to be Easter Break, hence the name. So how
Pumping those tires
Me attempting to check our tire pressure, only slightly successive did I spend my spring break do you ask? Better believe it was with two amazing girls in a van driving up the West Coast. Road trip baby, yeah! Ok so friday we get the Wicked camper van, now none of you are going to know what that means, why is it important that we got a Wicked camper, well let me tell you. You see there were three groups of us who got wicked camper vans. Wicked vans are a cult phenomenon, when you get a Wicked Van you become part of the Wicked group, and only when you are in a Wicked van can you really get excited about seeing another wicked van. Don't start screaming at a wicked van when you're walking down the street, people will just look at you funny *cough* Nate *cough*. Anyways, each Wicked van is painted something different and each has it's own name. Ours was Holly and she was painted with aboriginal drawings and on her back it said "men are like grapes, if you stomp on them enough, they'll turn into something you can have dinner with" Needless to say we feel Holly was a feminist van. The guys had
Phillipa
Flip getting ready for bed in our van on the first nite a Jesus van, which was extremely ironic as one of the guys Dan is a jew. It had a picture of white jesus on one side and a picture of a black jesus on the other, very politically correct. And on their back it said "Honk if you love jesus" So they didn't have to worry about blaming the honking on their horrible driving, seriously they had a stick shift, and only one of them knew how to drive a stick shift, it really was bad driving. The last one was the other girls van, it had the beatles on it and said love me do on the back. They got jipped I know. Anyways we got the vans and some food and packed up our stuff. Andy and Ty (my favorite C-unit boys) came to see us off. Right before we got in the car Andy asked us who would flip out first, me Jen or Flip. Course we all said none of us are going to freak out you're crazy. What does he say? I bet it's Kristen by the second day. SO insulted. But i shook it off and we jumped in the car and were on
Kalbarri
The group on the jungle gym our way, we just didn't know what that way was. We were lost within half an hour so we pulled over and busted out the map and figured it out. Then we piled back into the seats, by the way we all sat in the front and I'm sorry to have to tell you this parents, please don't yell I'm still alive, the middle seat didn't have anything to clip the seatbelt into. That piece of info will become important later. Anyways we took off down the street and had driven for about five minutes when we realized Flip had left the side door wide open with all our stuff in the back luckily we caught it because that could have been trouble. None of you have met Jen yet but let me tell you, Jen without her clothes, is not a happy Jen. And Jen can be scary. So we closed the door and took off again. We were heading for the pinnacles. It took us a couple of hours before we first decided to stop to get some gas. A middle aged man with his friend came up to us and started asking us about our van. We
Morning Pics
Western Australia at 7 am, yeah we got up at 6:30 am to leave,we're crazy like that figured out that we were a little confused about the way to go so they told us they would show us. They took us to some sand dunes and explained to us that they could take us to their shack that was in a really secluded area with a beautiful lake and beautiful beach and that way if we got stuck on the sand dunes they could tow us out. Oh yeah and not to worry because they had their kids with them. So we said sure and followed the nice men to the secluded shack and were never heard from again. Hey I'll admit we had got lost twice in two hours, we're not the brightest bulbs but we're not suicidal, we thanked them nicely and decided to take an alternate route, however, we did get a free map out of it. So off we were to our next destination which wasn't really planned out yet. As it started to get dark we realized we needed to pull over for the night. This was due to our fear of kangaroos, you see kangaroos are like deer except they don't just get caught in the headlights they run towards them
Easter miracles
Shot in the rearview mirror of our easter miracle friends as drove off with a tank of gas and they come out at dusk so driving at night is pretty much a death wish. So we pulled over to the first roadhouse we saw and spent the night pretty much at the side of the road. The second day we headed to Dongara, a little town about 4 hours north of Perth and hit the beach. It was nice nothing special, then we hopped back in the car and headed up to Kalbarri where we ended up meeting up with the guys and the two other groups who rented a car and a Ozcamper van. We spent the night with them listening to good ol' country music but decided to head out before them early the next day so we could make it to the next beach while it would be good suntanning light. So we got up at 7 am and headed out, we made it about 90 km out of town when we looked at our gas gauge, what had said half a tank at the beginning was now very close to the red line below the E. That's right folks 90 km from the next gas station, right smack in the middle, we ran out
shell beach
Us at the beach before we got to Monkey Mia of gas. So we waved down the first van we could. It was a sweet elderly couple in an RV. We told them our problem, and then the women said "oh girls you're letting the team down" Yes yes we were. So they busted out a hose, a funnel, and a bucket and siphoned out gas from their air conditioning system. They were our Easter miracles. They wouldn't even let us pay them back, they told us to help out the next people who needed it. So sweet. Anyways we made it to the beach with some light and then trekked up to Monkey Mia where we had a lovely Easter feast, honestly best dinner I think I've ever had in my life. It was a lime, vodka and prawn risotto with crusted parmesan. So good, oh and for those of you who don't know prawns are shrimps. Aussies don't say shrimps so the saying "put another shrimp on the barbie" yeah that came out of left field. Alright well there's way more to the story but I've run out of time so we'll have to finish this another time. Love and miss everyone.
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