182 Days

I had the pleasure of meeting Rod's second daughter (Maxine 21) shortly after having breakfast that stef had made for us:) i had one full day to spend in Brisbane and stef and max (for short) wanted to show me a lil of what there country was all about. we headed our way down to the gold coast. on arrival we took a stroll down the beach and i couldn't tell it apart from a beach we'd get back home, just that everyone had an accent.

After spending about an hour sight seeing we embarked on a journey down the coast to find a beach we could take their dog :) on our way we stoped at a drive through bottle store. it was so effen cool! you don't even have to get out your car to buy any drinks =D we bought a few local beers to try which weren't all that bad... nothing like a black label though... the sun was setting and we decided we would stop at a mac-dee's, i asked the guys behind the counter for a super size fries, the guy said "HUH" and proceeded to look at me like i was crazy, lol. they only make small, medium and large? sorry i found this quite strange, i guess they don't have big dutch men like us in SA with big tummies to feed.

Later on that evening the girls wanted to show me a night out on the town. we were picked up by a cab, then picked up one of stef's friends and were on our way. We partied at some place in the city- it was nice, it had like a Cool Runnings vibe to it. Down stairs they had a band playing some African tunes - quite honestly it sounded like shit, lol. nothing like home =D we then took a cab to 'The Valley'. which is an area dedicated to the night life of Australia. On this block there were about 20-25 clubs and bars on it! it was insane. there was so much going on there that I'd be sitting here for days typing about it. at about 2am we decided to call it a night but had to get some munchies first:) Stef and I got these HUGE pizza slices for 7 dollars each, which is pretty expensive but worth every cent! just thinking about it makes my mouth water(o_0)

Rod made it clear that we had to be home early so i could be up in time for my flight at 7am, lol. Only ended up getting home at 3. it was all worth it though! thanks Stef and Max - you guys rock my socks!