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Went to the Great Barrier Reef today. I gotta say, not as cool as I expected. But then, I didn't go scuba diving, and it was cloudy. Still, I tried to take lots of pictures for my grandma; on the phone she told me the GBR was the one place she has wanted to see her whole life. It made me mad in retrospect that my mom wouldn't send me her video camera before I left Arizona, a video would have turned out way better than the photos I took, I'm sure. Oh, well. I spent a good bit of cash on souvenirs for the family, but I still have nothing for my grandpa. What do you buy a 70 year old man who has everything when you don't know his t-shirt size? I got him Starbucks coffee for Christmas, for petesake. He's into collecting coins, but I haven't been able to find anything collectable around here, except the regular small denomination coinage. They have little 2 dollar coins here that are so cute.
I've decided to forego rafting and spend my last hundred bucks on a tour of the rainforest tomorrow, for one reason-- for an extra 14 dollars, you get to hold a koala. Even just seeing one is fine with me, they are way cuter in person. Insert Mitch Hedberg bit here. Someone told me that they're actually really vicious, and you can only hold them for about 30 seconds before they freak out. It sounds like it could be a rip-off, one of the locals told us to just rent a car and drive around in the rainforest ourselves. Still, last year's group went on this tour as a mandatory thing, and apparently it was cool.
Bought the new Gorrilaz cd, am very impressed. No one on the trip has heard of them. Clint Eastwood, anyone? Bueller?
Randomly, I remembered that an author I sometimes like, Sara Douglass, is Australian. Some of her books haven't been released in the US yet, but I bet I could find them here. I should look into that. It's weird, one of her books is amazing and cool, and the rest are kind of hit and miss. But they're all distinctly written in the same style and voice.
Here's the problem with living in the tropics: there has been an incident with a big hairy spider in someone's bedroom. A couple people had cockroaches, everyone has a wicked ant infestation. The only thing my roommates and I have found so far is a little gecko, and it was adorable. And very speedy, hard to catch. But I still wake up several times a night to do a big hairy spider check.
PS "OVER 1,500,000 people can't be wrong! (well, it's possible)"--lol. Star Wars Ep III: A Lost Hope. I haven't watched it, but that quote is damn amusing to me for some reason.
I've decided to forego rafting and spend my last hundred bucks on a tour of the rainforest tomorrow, for one reason-- for an extra 14 dollars, you get to hold a koala. Even just seeing one is fine with me, they are way cuter in person. Insert Mitch Hedberg bit here. Someone told me that they're actually really vicious, and you can only hold them for about 30 seconds before they freak out. It sounds like it could be a rip-off, one of the locals told us to just rent a car and drive around in the rainforest ourselves. Still, last year's group went on this tour as a mandatory thing, and apparently it was cool.
Bought the new Gorrilaz cd, am very impressed. No one on the trip has heard of them. Clint Eastwood, anyone? Bueller?
Randomly, I remembered that an author I sometimes like, Sara Douglass, is Australian. Some of her books haven't been released in the US yet, but I bet I could find them here. I should look into that. It's weird, one of her books is amazing and cool, and the rest are kind of hit and miss. But they're all distinctly written in the same style and voice.
Here's the problem with living in the tropics: there has been an incident with a big hairy spider in someone's bedroom. A couple people had cockroaches, everyone has a wicked ant infestation. The only thing my roommates and I have found so far is a little gecko, and it was adorable. And very speedy, hard to catch. But I still wake up several times a night to do a big hairy spider check.
PS "OVER 1,500,000 people can't be wrong! (well, it's possible)"--lol. Star Wars Ep III: A Lost Hope. I haven't watched it, but that quote is damn amusing to me for some reason.
