On the Tuesday I was lying in bed feeling slightly worse for wear when the cleaning ladies arrived.\u00a0 By this point Nadine had checked out and a German couple had checked in for the day.\u00a0 The cleaning ladies were distinctly unimpressed by the state of the room and the numerous beer bottles scattered everywhere.\u00a0 The first lady (not the President’s wife the first cleaning lady) pointed to a pile of bottles and asked the poor German girl if they were hers when she had only just arrived.\u00a0 After this she walked round saying, “filthy room”, and the like prior to calling another of her cleaner mates to show her just how disgusting it was!\u00a0 Those pesky Australians…actually I don’t think it was their sole fault to be fair.\u00a0 The whole situation would have been absolutely hilarious if I didn’t feel like death.<\/p>\n
I spent the day around Airlie and the lagoon.\u00a0 Perhaps the highlight of the day was Pete’s banana experiment.\u00a0 Someone ate a banana (not Eric, the absence of name is due to the fact that I can’t remember who it was) and I asked if anyone had ever seen anyone slip on a banana skin, or indeed if this was even possible, unless of course you had been drawn.\u00a0 Pete then decided that he should do a ‘Mythbusters’ on the subject and spent a good few minutes jumping on the skin and trying to slide but to no avail.\u00a0 Eventually, however he did manage to slide on the banana skin and stacked it on the floor, and I got a lovely video of the whole thing.<\/p>\n
In the evening Aisling and Aaron (two Irish people) checked into the room.\u00a0 Katherine headed out with a friend and the rest of us hit the town.\u00a0 People dwindled off for various reasons but it was another big and fun night in Airlie.\u00a0 Well, that is, apart from one guy telling me that I had, “evil eyes” when I was outside a bar having a cigarette.\u00a0 I was mightily put out by this, after all they are perhaps what I consider my best asset.\u00a0 This was then not helped by his friend arriving and saying, “nah she’s okay, she’s cool, she has dimples”.\u00a0 So then I was left there, more than slightly bemused, first trying to justify the fact that I didn’t have evil eyes and secondly the fact I don’t have dimples.\u00a0 My roommates turned out to be really sound and the night was a good one.\u00a0 Well, until we all got back to the room and there were some unwanted noises coming from one of the beds which prompted Pete to announce, “Hey guys, you do realise this is a share dorm”.\u00a0 Okay, enough on that subject me thinks.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday I was again in bed when the cleaners arrived but they were in better spirits, despite there again being numerous articles banned on the premises strewn around the floor.\u00a0 Okay that sounded much worse than it was meant to, I’m referring to empty bottles here as alcohol was not permitted due to a lack of licence.\u00a0 Andrew got me some much welcome muesli and banana and we headed down to the lagoon.\u00a0 Later on I booked my ticket for the evil long bus journey out of Airlie to 1770.\u00a0 I chilled out with Andrew, who I found out was called Dome by the other guys as he shaved his head at school and it was dome shaped (as opposed to cuboid or something obviously) until it was time to head down to the bus pick up point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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