To get you all in the holiday mood just listen to this Green Day song while you read the blog post:
Green Day - Holiday <- Click the link if you are wondering why staring at the song title isn't making any noise.
I departed for Brisbane on Monday 4th April and flew with Quantas on a 737. Was all good. When we arrived at Brisbane Airport we were waiting for my bags so my sister proclaims "Ours hasn't came yet" well no shit sherlock, why else would be waiting for the luggage? After getting our luggage we went over to Avis car rental. Their computer systems were down (Gotta love Windows 95, seriously....) and they ended up giving us a commodore when we were supposed to have some crappy Toyota. Just after getting our good car the computer systems came back up but we still got to keep the car. Ka ching!
On the way to our Hotel we were trying to find out where Labradore is then we saw a giant billboard 6x the size of the car telling us where it was, my mum said "Oh good it's sign posted" and my sister says "Where?". How can you not see a sign 6x as big as the car you are in???!!
When we got to the apartments I realised we were in room number 42
I figured CAmo14 & Bondy would love to know that! ;)
Went to Movie World the next day, nothing going on there. It's so boring. There were 2 rides there, the scooby doo spooky coaster and the wild west adventure ride. Saying that the Scooby Doo Coaster is spooky is like saying rap music is good to listen to or the crazy frog isn't annoying and is very cool. Everyone
insists it is but everyone
knows it's not the case at all.
At Movie World they had a "The Matrix" display. Next-gen! I can see they are up to date with movies. In the display they had scale models of models used in the movie. Why bother?
Welcome to the Real World, where 3 year old displays still bring in the Asian tourists.
Although they didn't have much Movie World have an inverted roller coaster which you ride upside down. I didn't go on this one although it might've been fun.
On the way back from Movie World we were waiting at the traffic lights when a bus pulls up beside us. I was looking at the window and noticed an unusual sticker which said "Warning: Do not access bus through window" as though somebody would be stupid enough to decide to scramble through the window rather than simply enter through the doors. I think that sign should be on every bus in Tasmania but nowhere else....well maybe in South America but who knows....
Next day we went to Wet and Wild. I tried to go down a water slide but it wasn't going fast at all and I got stuck 4 times going down it. The suxx0rz. I then spent the next 30 minutes in a line to ride some stupid raft thing down a tunnel. I got stuck at the start of the tunnel and then pushed myself out of that. I suppose it was alright after that but it didn't warrant the 30 minutes so I decided to blow that idea off.
Next I tried "The Twister" where there are 2 water slides that twist around each other. That one was good to start with then I got all this water in my eyes so I shut them and then the slide managed to mangle me up on the safety barrier at the end.
After that I went into the wave pool which was pretty cool until I started going under the waves. I decided i'd better stop trying to swim so I just stood there and that turned out alright.
With all the things i'd tried being subpar to my expectations I abruptly ended my day there and just sat around til my mum and sister decided to get the hell out of there.
The next day we went to Sea World, I didn't think it would be any good since it kept advertising itself as the best of the 3. Sure it was right but it shouldn't make these claims as someone might disagree with it. It had this awesome ride there called the Bermuda Triangle where you went on this boat inside this volcano and saw aliens. Anything with aliens is cool as AvP showed us.....The movie.....Yes i'm serious.....Alright I lied, AvP sucked. You happy?.....Good, moving right along then.
Sea World has this big tank called Shark Bay beacuse it's too eXtreme to be referred to as a mere aquarium. Any aquarium attempts are subpar to it's eXtremeness as this is like a really big aquarium, but with sharks so it's cool, right? Did I mention it was sponsored by Optus. I wonder if I could sell out to Optus. Look for the banners coming soon ;)
Sometime during the first week we also visited Riplys believe it or not which was a cool museum and The Wax Works which was pretty crap. We also visited 2 wild life parks not unlike any other wild life park in Australia.
After the first week in Queensland on Monday morning my mum says "Well we've done everything I had planned. We've got nothing to do for the rest of the week." I wish she would have planned ahead so instead of spending 2 weeks there we only spent 1. I mean whats the point of going on holiday for 2 weeks when we've done everything in the first week? Way to waste my holidays!!!
To fill time in we went on a boat cruise which took us along the canals where blocks of land were selling for 1.5million-8million each. These aren't big blocks. These are really small blocks. But it's beacuse they are water-front.
This guy is so rich he bought a block of land just to put a helipad & garden set to come by and have lunch at -_-
On Wednesday, the day before I went home to Melbourne I metup with Peeki at the shopping centre. My mum was on the wrong side of town and wound up at the wrong shopping center to start with. It was 5:30 and over in Brisbane all the shops close early so we were just walking around talking then we went to Intencity and played air hockey. I really couldn't be bothered playing though and Peeki kept going off at me lol.
After that we decided to checkout the table top soccer game. Big mistake! That thing is the worst game ever. If you've ever played one you'll know what i'm talking about. For those of you who have never played one here is what they look like:
The one we played was really crappy and falling apart too.
After this we wondered what to play and walked around and looked at the machines. There was this game from the '80s there that reminded me of Galaga. We bagged it good then decided to play some Silent Scope. I didn't know what the hell I was doing so Peeki just played that.
Next we went over and played some Warfare gun game but my gun was the complete opposite to callibrated. It moved from one side of the screen to the other if I moved it tiniest bit, here is a digram:
Beforehand: [-*------]
**MOVE GUN TINIEST BIT**
Afterwards: [------*-]
In this game you didn't kill soldiers you had to kill skeleton soldiers which didn't seem to be shooting at you at all. There was a helicopter Peeki had to take out and it had like 4 weak spots on it. What kind of military are they running? I'll give you a hint: Front of copter, Back of copter, Rotor & Cockpit. Pretty much the entire thing is a weak point.
I left Brisbane on Thursday 14th April 2005. On the way back from Brisbane my flight was delayed 30 minutes due to bad weather in Melbourne causing them to only use one runway. I took advantage of the situation and used the time to the fullest of my ability by sitting around on a chair staring at a wall. I then bought a copy of APC to read on the plane flight back to avoid hijacking the plane for fun. We went back to Melbourne on a 767 and I happened to be sitting in the furthest back seat in the plane on a window seat. People say window seats are good but they aren't that great when you are positioned behind the engine and the weather is so bad you can't see anything but white outside the window anyway.
I guess there might be more I could add to this post but I just could't be bothered working on it anymore so I just wanted to get it over and done with. Hope you enjoyed reading about my holidays more than I enjoyed being on them.
