Feb
16
2009

Surfers Paradise

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(Posted Under: Travel)
This morning we slept in as much as we could before checkout time, which was nice, given the whirlwind that is our life. We then packed, and ate the warmed up dinner from last night (Seaworld) for breakfast.

Given how terrible the whether was when we arrived (pouring rain, not really much different to arrival last year), the weather yesterday was glorious, and today wasn't looking any different. Although it's been a really short trip, it's been absolutely awesome, and I'm so glad that we opted to stay for 3 days.

After checking out we went down to Cavill, and on the search for another souvineer gel filled block, when I am apparently collecting now. As a result, we ended up walking around more than we would have otherwise intended. In the midst of this we also phoned New Mexico to find out what time they were opened for lunch. Which, unfortunately they weren't at all. Which was a huge disappointment to me, although, all the same, I have no regrets that we didn't try to go last night. As we've more than discovered, we're great at pushing ourselves - you're not hard core unless you live hard core - but we know when not to push it too far, and that would have been, without a doubt. Instead, after consulting the slew of brochures Katie always seems to accumulate [wink] we decided on Montezuma's for lunch. After walking around more, and becoming triumphant on a Gold Coast gel block, we started to make our way to Montezuma's.

Photobox ImageMuch to my surprise, it was only three blocks from Cavill, and was a much shorter jaunt than I'd expected. Which rocked my world, because I was ready to be sitting and eating! Why do we love this place so much? Because it's fucking awesome, that's why! [wink] The decore was as good not, if not rivaled the Melbourne location. Immediately on walking in disappointment about New Mexico was all but gone. [smile] After going out the back for a smoke (overlooking the beach), and then coming back inside, I couldn't help but be really reminded of actually being in Mexico. Helped along by the Tecate I ordered being in a bottle. Literally the first time I've drunk Tecate out of a bottle since I was in Mexico.

Lunch was awesome, as the food always is at Montezuma's, and it being half price for lunch was a bonus. It really makes me sad that the Melbourne location isn't closer to work! Though, maybe as far as my wallet is concerned, maybe that is a good thing. [wink] In anycase, lunch was awesome, and just sitting down was very welcomed.

After eating, we headed down to the beach (impressively for the first time since we've been here), basically to kill some time before heading to the airport. Since it was pretty much as hot and sunny as yesterday we found a good shaded spot, and talked about how good the trip has been, entertained ourselves with topless beached whales [wink], and dipped our feet in the ocean (before we leave again). Around four we took off, with the plan to walk up to where we stayed last year and catch the bus from there. Ironically it turned out to be a good homage to our last day last year, where we did pretty much the same thing, replacing lugging a laptop with dragging a suitcase along the beach. It was somewhat less windy than last year, but we had the exact same questions about whether it being too far, and on arrival at Wharf Road determine that it wasn't. After a quick stop to rid our shoes of sand (which Katie's sandles seem that they will be filled for a long time to come) and then a brief moment of posing as Japanese tourists at the duty free place so Katie could use the bathroom, we were on a bus and on our way back to the airport.

Our flight back was vastly different to our flight up, in that there were no major disasters, and the flight crew seemed to have a better grasp of english. Before long, we were walking across the tarmac at Melbourne airport Hunter S. Thompson style (well, kinda [wink] ), and waiting to be picked up. With clear knowledge that in just a few ours, we were going to get back up and do it all over again!

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