Heeey guys.
As you probably
know I have now started my amazing journey with Christina, which is absolutely
awesome. She arrived Thursday the 20th, and the days leading up to I
was just hanging out with people and enjoying my last time in Adelaide. The Saturday
before was my last shift at the Elephant, which was so weird. I didn’t like
it.. I still don’t haha. Aaron made me my last knock-off drink which was a
small inception-bomb ish thingie (look it up), basically energy drink in a pint
glass, two shot glasses balancing each other on the top of the pint glass. This
is a very bad explanation, I apologize in advance. One of them had jäger, the
other one had a “slippery nipple”, which is ¼ white sambucca and ¾ baileys.
What you do is you take the slippery nipple, then the jäger falls into the
energy drink and creates a jägerbomb that you then drink. It knocked me out a
bit haha. Well afterwards some of us went to Tan’s, woke up Jay and continued
drinking until like 10 am. It was a good night. A sad, but good night.
One of the days
we went for my last vege burger at the ele as well. So sad. I could really eat
one right now… Tuesday night we had the Stella Artois pouring competition at
work. So Stella does this every year, a lot of bar people compete to be the
best to pour the Stella in the 9-point-pour they want and then in the end
represent Australia in different Stella events for a year. So the ones of us
that wanted to do it did it, and it was a lot of fun. Obviously I couldn’t
really compete, since I’m not even Australian, but it was fun to try. Both Koji
and Caroline got picked (yaaay, good job guys), and they’ll be competing
against other bar people from Adelaide soon. The finale is in France at Cannes
film festival, so I expect one of them to win and then I’ll come watch hehe.
After that we had our last staff party before Kristian and I would leave, so we
all went to Koji’s and got wasted. Basically. It was a lot of fun. Pictures
will follow once I get time to go through them haha.
Then Thursday
Christina arrived. I was late to pick her up because apparently you can’t count
on buses in Adelaide, you just have to yolo it pretty much. It was so good
seeing her again! We went home for a shower and a nap, because Thursdays are
PJ’s nights, and we wouldn’t want to miss out on my last one. We met up with
Blake at the Ele and then we went to a drive-in theater and watched Wolf Creek
2. Of course we had to watch a horror movie about backpackers in Australia,
what else. Blake has put mattresses in the back of his pick-up car thingie, so
it was awesome. Afterwards we dropped the car at Tan’s and then went to PJ’s.
Many vodkas later we ended at Sugar (as usual), and then Hungry Jacks for night
time snacks. That’s basically our going out agenda, so nothing unusual to that
hah.
Friday was
hungover day. We couldn’t do much at all, just slept and felt sorry for
ourselves. We went into town to go to the Garden of Unearthly Delights, which
is part of the fringe in Adelaide at the moment, and has a lot of food, rides
and shows. Festival atmosphere. Well, it was impossible to get in, so we went
and had yiros with Jay and Sean (Tan’s friend). And then we went back home
haha. Saturday we went to pick up our rental car from Wicked Campers. It was
reallyyyy dodgy looking when we got there, but we got a car and that was all
good. It had a tent on the roof though, not really what we ordered, but
whatever, it worked out fine. Next step was driving. In the wrong freaking side
of the road. I started, it was horrible for about 2 minutes, and then it was
actually all good. We went to get food for our trip, took a look at the hills
and Mt. Lofty, and then stopped by at Tan’s to drop some stuff. Later that
night we went into town and sat at the Ele for some drinks. It was Saturday
night. First Saturday night in about 5 months that I wasn’t working. It felt so
weird, and I just wanted to go to the other side of the bar and help out haha.
Collect the glasses, put the stools back, oh all them habits. I felt sad, it
was my last night in Adelaide, my last night at the Elephant and I had to say
goodbye to people. It was so horrible. The world would be so much better
without goodbyes. Oh and we actually went to the Garden before, so we still got
to enjoy that!
Sunday morning
we woke up, had a shower and packed the car. I said bye to Tom and then we were
off to the hills to see Aldo, Jen and Mia one last time. We had lunch and just
talked for some time, and I got to see the house one last time. How I’m gonna
miss these guys, my Aussie family. I’m already excited for when I get to see
them again, and I can’t even imagine not being able to just go and see them
when I want..
Then we went
back down to Adelaide to Tan’s so I could say goodbye to Tan, Blake, Jay, Lachy
and Kristian. We spend a couple of hours there just chatting, but yeah. We had
to leave, and it was so hard. I wanna say I’ve never cried that much before,
but that would be a lie, cause we all know I cry a loooot. And this was
definitely not an exception haha, I felt so horrible, you have no idea. I miss
them so much already, it’s hard leaving best friends behind. I will see them
soon again, I know I will.
So that was
Adelaide. Another chapter of my life written down, finished. Another chapter
that I’ll look back at with the biggest freaking smile on my face (that is when
I stop crying because I miss it…). I mean, looking back I had no idea how it
was gonna turn out. It became so much better than I could’ve ever thought it
would be. It made the thought of going home, start studying and moving into
Copenhagen horrible and not appealing at all. That takes a lot. Now it’s one of
the best memories I have, and I’m glad I can call it my second home. It was
some awesome months, and they will always make me happy thinking back at J
Sooo, that
turned into some deep shit, and now this post is taking me so much longer to
write… haven’t even gotten to our travelling yet haha, oh god.
Well off we go.
We left Adelaide around 2pm, and our first stop on the way to Melbourne was
gonna be Robe. A small fishing town a couple of hours down the coast. We found
a nice little spot in the middle of nowhere and decided to stay the night. The
tent on the roof was really easy, but we still consider ourselves masters of
camping because of that one. It was really windy and pretty cold, but we got
through the first night, which was goooood. Monday we were off at 10 and our
first stop was Mt. Gambier and the Blue lake, which is formed in a volcano
crater. It was stunning, and we stopped to have lunch there and chill for a
bit. We also bought a cord for the car, so we could blast our awesome music
real road trip style, oh yeaaah. There wasn’t a lot to see on this part of the
trip, basically just trees, desert looking stuff and the road. We stopped in
Warrnambool, found a big playground and stayed there for a bit (swings are the
best, just saying), and then we tried to find a place to stay the night. We
ended up in Port Cambell on a camping spot, where we met a nice police officer.
Well, he came right as we were cooking our food in the womens toilets (it was
warmer in there….), and told us that the spot was actually closed and the
restrooms were supposed to be locked. We freaked a little, since we had an open
fire in the restroom, and Christina decided to hide stuff in one of the showers
because I yelled she should get it out of the way. We had an awkward encounter
when he found it, but he was a nice guy and let us stay, so it was all good
hahaha.
Tuesday we hit
the Great Ocean Road for real and it got a bit more exciting. We saw some of
the amazing rocks/cliffs in the water off of the coast like thunder cave and
the twelve apostles. It was absolutely amazing and completely unreal. So
beautiful. We also saw a brown snake, which scared the crap out of me being
like “Christina, don’t move!! It’ll kill you!”… but we survived. On our way to
Apollo Bay we went through some rainforest and had a walk in there as well, and
it was pretty awesome. I like the rainforest, it’s really cool. There were
heaps of huge trees, and it was just kind of amazing. We then drove off to
Apollo Bay, Lorne and Torquay, small surfer towns that are really nice to just
have a walk in and chill for a bit, so we did that. We then continued towards
Geelong, a bigger town about 100 km away from Melbourne. This was where we
wanted to spend our last night. As we were driving in the middle of the town I
looked out my window and saw…. A huge huntsman (spider) sitting on the window.
Or it was its freaking hairy legs just sitting there on the window and then it
crawled away. Needless to say neither of us dared to leave the car, and when we
finally got out to take a look at it, it was gone. Gone. Aka inside our lovely
tent on top of our roof. We freaked for a bit, and then continued.
As we had found
free camping spots the first two nights and therefore hadn’t had a shower or
anything, we decided to stay at a caravan park for the night. We got all set,
made our dinner (pasta and ketchup, because we’re that awesome… basically that
was all we got, and it worked out fine). We had a good sleep, and actually
stayed in the tent, convinced that if I woke in the middle of the night with a
giant spider crawling in my sleeping bag I would have a heart attack. Luckily
that didn’t happen. Or I didn’t wake up at least, haha. The next morning we
were off pretty early. We had two older women as neighbors. They looked pretty
strange and we think they actually lived in their tents. As we are packing up
one of them comes up to me and says “that’s a pretty cool tent” (you couldn’t
understand her very well, but I managed). I just replied very quickly as it was
awkward. She then goes “uhm… do you girls do heroin?”….. uhm what?! Hahaha.
“No, we don’t do heroin”. “Not just a little bit?”. “No, absolutely not”.
“Alright… well it is very bad for you too…. I was just wondering if you girls
wanted some drugs”. No thanks, I think we’re good. At that stage we concluded
that ending our camping adventure that day was a really good idea, since we
apparently looked like we did heroin hahaha. Just as a side note, the old lady
then got into their car and reversed straight into a really nice car on the
other side of the path leaving a huge dent, and then she ran down a tree pole….
So we left.
We then drove
towards Melbourne and found a place to clean the car. We cleaned it as well as
we could, but it was kind of hard and must have looked really funny. Driving
into Melbourne was actually alright, and we were surprised that we actually
handled all that “driving-in-the-wrong-side”-stuff so well. We handed the car
in at about 1 pm, and the guy didn’t even check it… So much for that cleaning!
Alright, that
was the great ocean road. Melbourne will be up as soon as I can get it done –
so hard with no wifi haha. And then New Zealand afterwards!
PS. This
backpack of mine…. Holy shit. I would laugh if I saw me walking around with it,
it’s practically bigger than me. I have absolutely no balance whatsoever
wearing it. It’s a struggle in itself, if I lean a few cm back or sideways I
will fall over. Hahaha, imagine that. I’ve also knocked a few people over with
it because in my head it’s not that big. But it is. I look forward to coming to
Cairns and being able to throw some stuff out, because this is absolutely
ridiculous haha.
See ya peeps
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