So as the rest of Australia seems to be drowned in rain and below 0 temperatures, Darwin is still as hot and sunny as ever and I'm so glad we are here to bake in it!
On my rare days of freedom from work I managed not to spend the day nursing a hangover and relaxed on my balcony and cooked myslef a little to top of the tan I seem to have lost since working what seems like all day everyday! Lovely. :o)
Wals been working his ass off working 2 jobs. He's joined the Shags team behind the bar and also got a job playing with squid and prawns. So by day he smells of fish and nights he smells of stale beer. Mmmmmm.
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| Wal looking happy to be working at Shags |
We don't seem to see a whole lot of each other at the mo but at least we are saving some hardcore cash to be able to have some of this holiday fun we keep hearing about! Hopefully we can have a bit of time out in a couple of months to actually holiday and not work for a bit. I can't wait.
So now that I am a loner most evenings and on my free days, I decided to be pro-active and join the gym. I've being enjoying it amazingley and done some pretty hardcore body-pump classes along with some pilates/yoga/thai chi classes that prove just how un-flexible I am. I have ached for about a week now and I'm determined to fight through it. Get ready for the gun show....................
Darwin fun has been as bizzare as ever with the annual Beer Can Regatta that was held at Mindill Beach.
The main event was about 10 teams of people that had made full size boats out of Beer cans and then had to row them in a race, it was pretty funny to watch. There where some pretty good ones and none of them actually sunk so people had really put a lot of effort into it!
There was also, tug of war, iron man and thong (flip-flops!) throwing competitions. Strange but amusing stuff.
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| Lady din't bring these guys luck as they lost! |
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| Beer can man with a mother of a nob! |
Other amusing happenings around Darwin is that someone managed to climb onto the roof of Woolworths Supermarket and graffiti this..........
Haha. I do love childish humour.
Once again I have had to say goodbye to a mate I've made on my travels. :-( Lisa who I worked with at Shags has left Darwin to travel down the East Coast for a month and then off back to Essex. It really does suck all these goodbyes.
She has only been in Oz since about April but said she's ready to go home. Me and Wal have actually got flights booked back to the UK in September but won't be using them. I cant imagine going home in 2 months. I just don't feel ready or feel that I have been away long enough. There is still so many places we want to visit and fun stuff we want to do so it would just be too soon.
Anyway, for Lisa's final night out a few of us headed out into Darwin city for one last blow out. My plan was not to stay out too late and not get too drunk as I was at work the next morning but that all went wrong when everywhere we went seemed to want to give us free drinks and obviously you can't turn down a free drink........or 20.
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| Lisa, Maz and me! |
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| Bye Bye Lisa |
We went from bar to bar and club to club and the best laugh was in Throb which is-
"The venue where gay, lesbians, straight, bi-sexual, transgender all mix together with a free to be attitude."
It was such a fun place, everyone was such a laugh and it was not at all what I would have expected to find in Darwin......I didn't think it would exist in a place that seems so 30 years behind everywhere else!
I definatly want to go back there as we only stayed for about an hour as more free drinks where calling at the next club!
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| 2 hot blondes????? |
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| Be safe kids. |
So my early sober night turned inrto a late drunken one with another pie and peas beinng consumed and a bad head in th morning. Lucky for me I had to go to work bright and early and serve sweet smelling jagerbombs to drunken baffoons all day...........happy days.