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hnpccWe're back. Returning to Melbourne in full autumn flood is kind of depressing after spending the week in shorts actually.
Odds and sods:
* I went into space. OK, not really, but seriously? This is something I would have absolutely loved as an 8 year old. Or, as it turns out, a 33 year old. I had so much fun. I also have a really cool photo of me rematerialising (which was accidental) which I will probably scan and put up or something. Cos heh, it's probably the closest I'll ever get to actual vacuum. It's certainly the closest I'm likely to get to inside a wormhole. The whole thing is also very reminiscent of HHGTTG, which just added to the joy for me.
* The gold coast wasn't hit by a tsunami. This probably confirms that my dreams aren't actually prophetic. I will admit to being slightly nervous and keeping an eye on available stairways to run up for the entire week though.
* I spent all week dreaming about various aspects of the wedding. The weirdest was the guys from American Chopper coming along to it. I blame Dean and Austar, in roughly equal amounts. Dean's first reaction: Did you invite more people to to the wedding?!?
* Wet'n'Wild Water World still rocks. You seriously can't beat waterslides for holiday fun. Especially the new black hole and sidewinder rides. I chickened out of the jetstream, it looked way too much like falling to me. Dean went on it once, but complained that he was (a) blinded and (b) had too much water go up his nose.
* Except maybe with mini-golf. Or - even better - night mini-golf. With inadequate lighting. And a green ball. How on God's green earth I beat Dean I'll never know.
* The Q1 building is cool, and the view is excellent. What I really want to do is go in their pool though... that looked beautiful. Yes, I know I was less than 100m from the Pacific Ocean, but seriously, their pool looked great. The bar's massively expensive though (if it costs more than at the airport it's overpriced.) The movie short in the theaterette is priceless. Try to see it with small children present, it increases the hilarity no end. And the small child in the lift summed up the inanity of the promotion with: "if this is the tallest building, why are the other ones taller?" Quite. (Short answer, at least from the spinners - "It's the tallest residential building, honey.")
* The surf the first few days was huge. Thank you cyclone whatever-your-name-is. Dean is still paranoid about bull sharks, making him afraid to go near the water unless it was chlorinated. He did pick up a crocodile skin bracelet though. Presumably to protect himself, from the well known Gold Coast Crocodiles. They keep giving you scratchies to win stuff that involves a 90 minute time-share seminar. And now we look like a reasonably affluent married couple we were targetted like you wouldn't believe. Next time we'll wear older clothes and try to look like backpackers.
* Of course this news item did absolutely nothing to allay my rather more reasonable fear of crocodiles. There's a reason I stay down south...
* They found the remaining Beaconsfield miners alive!!! Hallelujah!! Please God let this be true and not like the Pennsylvania thing last year.
And yes, we had a very relaxing and quite nice time. Apart from the sharks, dreams, crocodiles and potential tsunamis. ;-)
Odds and sods:
* I went into space. OK, not really, but seriously? This is something I would have absolutely loved as an 8 year old. Or, as it turns out, a 33 year old. I had so much fun. I also have a really cool photo of me rematerialising (which was accidental) which I will probably scan and put up or something. Cos heh, it's probably the closest I'll ever get to actual vacuum. It's certainly the closest I'm likely to get to inside a wormhole. The whole thing is also very reminiscent of HHGTTG, which just added to the joy for me.
* The gold coast wasn't hit by a tsunami. This probably confirms that my dreams aren't actually prophetic. I will admit to being slightly nervous and keeping an eye on available stairways to run up for the entire week though.
* I spent all week dreaming about various aspects of the wedding. The weirdest was the guys from American Chopper coming along to it. I blame Dean and Austar, in roughly equal amounts. Dean's first reaction: Did you invite more people to to the wedding?!?
* Wet'n'Wild Water World still rocks. You seriously can't beat waterslides for holiday fun. Especially the new black hole and sidewinder rides. I chickened out of the jetstream, it looked way too much like falling to me. Dean went on it once, but complained that he was (a) blinded and (b) had too much water go up his nose.
* Except maybe with mini-golf. Or - even better - night mini-golf. With inadequate lighting. And a green ball. How on God's green earth I beat Dean I'll never know.
* The Q1 building is cool, and the view is excellent. What I really want to do is go in their pool though... that looked beautiful. Yes, I know I was less than 100m from the Pacific Ocean, but seriously, their pool looked great. The bar's massively expensive though (if it costs more than at the airport it's overpriced.) The movie short in the theaterette is priceless. Try to see it with small children present, it increases the hilarity no end. And the small child in the lift summed up the inanity of the promotion with: "if this is the tallest building, why are the other ones taller?" Quite. (Short answer, at least from the spinners - "It's the tallest residential building, honey.")
* The surf the first few days was huge. Thank you cyclone whatever-your-name-is. Dean is still paranoid about bull sharks, making him afraid to go near the water unless it was chlorinated. He did pick up a crocodile skin bracelet though. Presumably to protect himself, from the well known Gold Coast Crocodiles. They keep giving you scratchies to win stuff that involves a 90 minute time-share seminar. And now we look like a reasonably affluent married couple we were targetted like you wouldn't believe. Next time we'll wear older clothes and try to look like backpackers.
* Of course this news item did absolutely nothing to allay my rather more reasonable fear of crocodiles. There's a reason I stay down south...
* They found the remaining Beaconsfield miners alive!!! Hallelujah!! Please God let this be true and not like the Pennsylvania thing last year.
And yes, we had a very relaxing and quite nice time. Apart from the sharks, dreams, crocodiles and potential tsunamis. ;-)
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Date: 2006-04-30 07:41 pm (UTC)Glad you had a good time, though. Sounds lovely, though I've seen enough documentaries to make me want to skip the beach altogether. ^_~
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Date: 2006-05-01 12:50 am (UTC)I have to admit I'm fine with the concept of sharks, although what we mostly get off Victorian beaches are white pointers and small sharks. The bull sharks are a bit more scary, and Dean is now making me paranoid! Still, the odds are pretty low all up, and surf is fantastic to swim in.
when swimming pools are so lovely and sanitary and (usually) devoid of things that could kill you.
And I just flashed on a really bad 80s trashy soap series called "Eden" where the bad guy tried to kill the main actress by putting a crocodile in the swimming pool.
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Date: 2006-05-01 09:10 pm (UTC)I suppose it's a product of growing up at least day's drive inland and never even seeing a beach (other than on a lake, and you don't want to swim in that, for entirely different reasons) until my senior year of high school, but I'm especially paranoid about jellyfish. Add in those saltwater crocodiles and the sharks, not to mention God-knows-what else is in the Reef out there, and you can count me out. ^_^
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Date: 2006-05-02 01:53 am (UTC)And if you come this far, you really should snorkel on the reef at least, it's very beautiful! :-) You can always go to the southernmost point of the reef which is at least 300km from the start of the crocodile territory.