Feb
14
2009

Valentine's Day

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(Posted Under: Travel)
This morning we headed to the airport early since we got a left, which gave us plenty of time to kill at the airport. The smoke from the bush fires has definitely been the worse today, actually surprising it's taken this long, since the bad day was last Saturday, but the smoke didn't really follow. However, it was bad enough today to be really glad to be going up north and getting away from it. It was a bit of a kick in the teeth that one of the restaurants had burnt food inside the Tiger Airways terminal, so there was really no getting away from the burning smell. If it wasn't bush fires outside, it was burning food inside!

Not surprisingly, there was nothing but a blanket of smoke to be seen when the plane took off. Given how bad it looked driving to the airport, this wasn't that surprising, however it lasted a lot longer than I expected (until we were somewhere over NSW). The flight was pretty good, except for the turbulence at the end, the kids behind us screaming (in delight!) each time the plane dropped, the inevitable throwing up of passengers, and being put in a holding pattern outside of the Gold Coast airport - all stressing Katie out quite a bit. And making us wonder if our fears of getting the cheap flights through Tiger had been realized! [smile] However, all was okay, and we touched down after 10 minutes of circling the airport, much to Katie's delight and relief!

With out feet on the ground, after a smoke and decompression time, it was out to the highway to get up to Surfer's. It was noticeably nice knowing the area and transport options this time around, which made it easy to get to our hotel. On the way we noticed a Montezuma's restaurant, so we immediately put the location of it into the vault. It's actually weird to think that the last time we were up here we didn't know the wonders of Montezumas. It's really weird that July last year was the first time we'd eaten there, it seems like much longer, probably because of the amount of times we've been since.

On arrival at the apartments we were quite impressed by the Mexican / Spanish influence of the apartments. This was completely unplanned, we'd chosen the place based on price and location, but worked out damn nice. After some well deserved downtime, we headed out to find some supplies (noticing that Chevron Island was probably the bad side of town) and then chill a bit more, before heading over to the Hard Rock Cafe around 9.

On getting down there, Katie went on a brief mission to find cheap entry to Seaworld. After that, we went off to find the entrance to the Hard Rock Cafe, which funnily was just as hard to find as this time last year! Must remember that it's actually on the street, not in the mall.

Photobox ImageImmediately on entering it was obvious that this was absolutely the best thing to be doing for Valentines Day. We threw this all together about 3 weeks ago, which seemed somewhat extravagant, but being here, no doubt that it's absolutely where we should be for Valentines Day. Despite the inclination to branch out, I went with the usual chicken fajita. Much to Katie's delight, since we booked for Valentine's Day, we got a free desert. My girl, she likes her free stuff! She was also quite chuffed with her collectible glass that her drink came in.

This year, the Gin Blossoms encounters were few and far behind. Though there was a guy playing acoustic again, there were no Hey Jealousy covers. The Hard Rock had also refreshed their collection, so no New Miserable Experience gold record either. Overall I think their collection was a lot better last year, and the memorabilia was more thinned out. However, there were some notable items, like Toad's Fear on vinyl, and a letter from Slash to (My) Michelle, which Katie also enjoyed given that she's currently reading the Slash book and knows about Michelle. Impressively we didn't leave until after midnight.

Afterwards we headed back to the apartment, not before attempting to pick up some more supplies, which began our annoyance with Surfer's Paradise and supermarkets, which apparently don't say open past 6pm, even on a Saturday.

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