On the Gold Coast

As life is always an adventure with us, plans change and things take longer than expected sometimes.. the other morning we drove down to byron bay for the day..and jeds car overheated... so after filling it up with creek water a few times, we finally made it! byron is just as i left it a year and a half ago.. we walked around town for a bit and then jenna, jaqi and i walked up to the lighthouse and out to the most easternly point of australia and waved home to california.. dont think anyone could see us, but it was worth the try :) we all stopped back in town with jed to have a beer in a nice little pub overlooking the beach as the sunset before heading to jed's parents house for the night where we were supposed to wake up at 3 am to hike up mt. warning so we could be the first to see the sun in australia for the day.. we decided 3 am was too cold (yes its winter) anddd the mountain would stil be there at 9 or so :)

so as we drove the 5 k to the base of the mountain jeds car failed for life.... and so we had another short adventure before we got to the mountain. the hike took us less than 4 hours, but towards the top we literally had to mountain climb straight up over 100 meters... it was fun but quite the work out. and theview from the top, although overcast, was quite amazing.. we could see all the way to byron bay (about 40 mins away) and to surfers paradise (another 45 min drive) in the opposite direction. the day continued on after we got back to the gold coast as we went out in surfers for the night.. catching up with lots of friends and showing jaqi and jenna the old stomping grounds. we had too much fun and didnt even realize how fast the time flew by until 5 am! oops! only in australia!

we slept in for a bit the next day, and headed out to 'the spit' which is a beautiful beach with white sand and dark blue water. we took jaqi back to the airport, and then jed drove us and a couple of friends into brisbane to see transformers in the imax. this was the first movie ive seen in an australian movie theater, so kinda cool? ha. it was pretty good..

and finally yesterday we spent the day on a little island in the broadwater.. a uni friend had a little boat that he took us all out in ... and i spent the evening around a bin bon fire in drakes backyard catching up and having a great time!

today is a laundry day and organizing day, maybe a little beach action later on, and the tomorrow jenna and i are going to head up the coast to the sunshine coast and see some lookouts and stroll through a few more beach towns.. hopefully its a bit warmer up there! alrighty! gotta go!