Exploring Surfers and some

I was so stressed out at work the whole week before. That combined with the hen's night, my birthday party, volleyball comps followed by late night dinner sessions left me burned out and lacking in sleep. The plan was to sleep in the first day and then just wing it. So at 6:30am, I woke up. Like wot da farrrrrrrrrk? For some unknown reason, we both woke up at 6:30am. I don't even wake up til 8am on a work day, but yet I'm getting up at 6:30am when I'm on holidays? Maybe it had something to do with the sun and the bloody bells that keeps chiming every 15mins. Luckily that doesn't start until atleast 7am.

We eventually drag ourselves out of bed, had a shot of chocolate vodka and took in the magnificent view from our balcony.

Omg how gorgeous is that? An oceanview room! w00t! Excellent photo opportunities now that we're sober. We had a better look at the apartment in the day time.

The annoying Seinfield kitchen bench

Not bad for the price and the location is excellent. Were literally a stone's throw from the cafes/shops/bars. For some reason, Moishii thought he would reenact the scene from Ace Ventura where he is screaming whilst opening and slamming the balcony door. He managed to scream, slam the door shut and then he couldn't get the door open again. So much for that. So instead, we turned around and both screamed "CHRISTINEEEEEEEEEEE" from the balcony. After that, we grabbed our bags and decide to do a bit of exploring. We stopped by reception first to complete the checkin process only to be greeted by Anne. She's the receptionist whos on too many pep pills and wouldn't stop talking. We quickly get out of there and throw ourselves onto the street. The first shop we went into?

We decided that it was time for coffee and brunch (Even though we've had breakfast at the apartment already). We found a little cafe next to the WB shop called Bar Italia

The place looked like a nice relaxing cafe with views of the shops and people. We ordered a coffee each.......

I ordered a bacon, egg and tomato grilled sandwich.......

.....and Moishii went for a Cheese and Tomato grilled sandwich. Only he got this:

That's right. They gave him a Cheese and ONION sandwich. Who in the hell orders a cheese and onion sandwich?? I mean, the waiter would've clarified if we REALLY wanted a cheese and onion sandwich so I don't think the order was taken wrong, but then why would the chef make a cheese and ONION sandwich? Using Kraft singles!! So Moishii takes his sandwich back to the waiter and this is what happens:

Moishii: I ordered a cheese and tomato sandwich, I got a cheese and onion sandwich
Waiter: FUCK!

Yes...those were his words......the owner quickly ran over and grabbed the sandwich off Moishii, and 5mins later, we got this:

Atleast its a cheese and TOMATO sandwich...pity about the Kraft single cheese. My sandwich, however, was delicious. I just wish the egg was a bit more runny.....but still yummy nonetheless. So we're sitting at the cafe, enjoying our caffiene hit, soaking in the sun, when all of a sudden we see this:


We managed to stop them and interviewed the big Purple thing called "Pinny" who has a red mate roaming around the streets, only they've had an argument and the woman is supposed to stop them from fighting. Like WTF? We can't even have a NORMAL brunch. We roam around afterwards to walk off the food when Christine calls. We sent her an MMS the night before with a video of us drinking champagne in the Limo and asking her to guess where we were. We told her we had eloped to Fiji with the blessing of Moishii's mother. And that someone is throwing coconuts. She believed us. For crying out loud, who would actually believe that shit? Especially with me screaming "OMG!! SOMEONE IS THROWING COCONUTS!!!". Apparently she went and told everyone we eloped to Fiji, only the wires got crossed somewhere and we were apparently in Bali????? God you people are screwed in the head. We decide to laugh it off and someone stumbled onto the Draculas store. We've already prebooked tickets to the cabaret restaurant, but thought it'll be good to check out the store anyway. This is a props paradise for us!

Coffin handbag

So we're strolling around and walked into a little arcade. Theres a little stand there saying "$59 theme park tickets". Wow! Discount! We wander over to find out how to get the discount tickets. I start asking questions, and this old woman (Called Denise) refuses to look at me whilst answering our questions. All of a sudden she looks up and says "I can help you!". She asked us "how long we've been together".....we couldn't be bothered explaining that we weren't "together" so we just said 6 years. This is when she grabs my hand and starts rubbing my fingers whilst screaming at Moishii that he hasn't got a ring on my finger after 6 years! Then she starts rambling about something about meeting us at 2:30. WTF? Apparently it was one of those marketing things where we go to a seminar, and they give us 2 tickets to any theme park for $59, or a $100 dining voucher or a $75 shopping voucher. We didn't really want to commit to going to the seminar despite the good incentives and kept making up excuses about us having plans etc. We told her we'll come back (Which means we're never coming back) and she starts screaming that she better see us soon, and that we better not talk to any other promotions stand! And if she sees us talking to other stands, shes going to come after us. We walk away and suddenly an idea came to our head. If we went seperately, would we EACH get a $75 shopping voucher? Cos that would be great! I walk back to ask her that question, and she screams that its only for couples and we would get one voucher between the 2 of us, and then she slaps me. Like WTF?? Alright, she slapped me on the arm, but she still slapped me! Who the hell slaps someone when trying to sell them something? Maybe I should become a door to door salewoman and slap everyone who opens the door for me! We managed to convince her to get her photo taken:

The look after slapping me

We quickly run out of there and suddenly find ourselves at the beach. How gorgeous is the view?

Surfers Paradise

Moishii almost gets run over trying to get a few shots

We race back to the apartment to grab our swimmers. On the way there, this crazy woman driving a car, turns into the exit of a car park. She almost crashes into the car so she quickly reverses, only theres too many cars on the road, so she parks right across the entrance of the car park. Then she sits in the car throwing her head from left to right exorcist style for about a minute before she tries to reverse out of the way and almost runs someone over before she stops blocking traffic. I swear there are freaks all around us.

We grab our gear, had a shot of vodka, threw open the balcony door, screamed "CHRISTINEEEEEEEEEEE" and then headed towards the beach to soaked up some sun. We pranced around the water for awhile and then realised we were starving. We ended up at a fish and chips shop and ended up with a fisherman's basket each. No photos of this meal because we didn't want to get sand in our cameras, but omg the food was good! The batter was light and crispy and a generous sprinkling of chicken salt was the perfect combo. For the fishermans basket, they used a soft flathead like fish which melted in my mouth. The prawns were crunchy and oh so delicious. The calamari was one of the most tender ones I've had in a long time! Damn I wish I had photos!

After we finished eating, we were sleepy. So we stumbled back to the apartment whilst clutching our stomaches. Soon we were fast asleep only to be waken a few hours later by the stupid bells again. This whole eating and napping thing is starting to sound like Mykonos! We get changed and head out to the Esplanade which has a Friday night markets. And you know me and Markets. Shopping!

OMG WE FOUND THE CRAZY HAT WOMAN!!!


For some stupid reason, everyone was walking around with these foam lizards

Actually, I didn't buy a SINGLE THING! I am so proud of myself! Moishii thought he'd have to confiscate my wallet, but I was too busy taking photos to really shop. We roamed around a bit more, taking in the night sights and ended up at a bottle shop. Funny that aye. We walk in and quickly grab the first bottle we saw. 2mins later, we're sitting at Santa Lucia Restaurant a few shops down toasting to our holiday. 10mins later, we have downed the first bottle of wine, and I was at the bottle shop again buying another bottle. The guy at the register took one look at me, shook his head and processed the purchase. The food finally came after we finished over a bottle of wine.

SCULLLLLLLLLLLL!!

Four seasons pizza

Green Side Salad

Vegetarian Pizza

By this time, the restaurant felt like a merry go round. I turn to my left and realised that the couple that has been there atleast 1/2hr before us is only like 1/2 way through their FIRST bottle of wine. Our second bottle was almost empty! They were looking at us like we're complete fuckwits.

We somehow managed to pay for the meal, I'm not too sure how that happened. And I think we ended up at IGA to buy some supplies.....but I can't remember what we got. And apparently I fell somewhere along the way home.....I'm not too sure...but I did managed to take this pic:

And I have no idea who these people are, or where I took the photos...or whether it was even me taking photos......

A while later, we ended back at the apartment, having more shots, screaming "CHRISTINEEEEEEEEE" from the balcony and watching the scenes we filmed for HI. After about 30mins of Christine in a nun suit, I had more than enough. I stood up, screamed "CHRISTINEEEEEEEEE" from the balcony and then collapsed into bed.

Passed out