I can't believe I have been in Australia for nearly three weeks. The time is flying by. The 2 Alex's arrived last Fridaybut it doesn't feel like they have been here over a week already. It has been great having them here, home away from homeand i'll be sad to see them leave.
Little things about Oz are still surprising me. After more than 2 weeks here I yesterday realised that they don't have 1 or 2 cent coins. So even though things are priced at $1.99 if you give them $2 you don't get any change! I don't get why they don'tjust have the price at the full $2, they aren't fooling anyone with their 99c lol.
After the Alex's got here last Friday I took them on a tour around Cairns and we went for lunch. I'd warned them about how expensive Oz is but like me I don't think they realised the scale of it until they got here.
That night their friends the 2 sam's came over and we had some goon and headed out to a local bar called P.J O'Brians. Well actually we tried to go to the wool shed but the sam's didn't have any id and even though they are clearly over 18 they wouldn't let them in so we headed over the road. It ended
up being a really funny night, We busted out the inbetweeners moves and had a nice little routine going by the end of the night.
Last Thursday we went on another day trip. The weather the last week hadn't been great, it's still the wet season here so we had a few showers. Luckily the weather was a lot better for the trip but as we were in the rainforest it still got a bit cool.
We visited a few different places including Babinda Boulders, Josephine falls, Milla Milla falls and the Curtain fig tree. I think Josephine Falls and Milla Milla were my favourites. At Josephine there is a small pool at the bottom of the falls where you can go swimming and there is a natural water slide which was great fun.
We were a bit nervous getting in as on the way there our tour guide had told us about all these people dying there and a few months before 2 locals had to be rescued due to flash floods. Girl alex was a wimp when we got there and complained about the water being too cold but we convinced her to get in in the end and i'm sure she enjoyed it.
Milla Milla was beautiful. It is where Peter Andre filmed the mysterious girl video so we had fun re enacting that ha. And a few herbal essences head flicks. The water was absolutely freezing though so we didn't stay too long.
I'm trying to get a job now, handed in my c.v at a few places but no luck so far. Hoping to hear back from a few places but it is so hard to get a job here. Everyone is trying to get a job and although it is getting to be the busy season it still hasn't properly kicked off yet so not many places are hiring. Although I have a bit of money left I think I will give it to the end of next week and then go for some outback/ fruit picking work just to get some money in. I'll be sad to see the back of cairns
though as I'm really settled here and I really love the atmosphere and everything about the city.
Think that's everything for now.
Love to you all xxx
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