anyway, as mentioned before, on the first day at Gold Coast, zeke and i basically just strolled around and tried to discover Gold Coast as much as we could.
but of course, first things first.
get from the airport to the backpackers hotel.
since we were on a holiday with a budget, we opted for taking a bus from there to 'Backpackers in Paradise'.
on the bus, there was this local guy sitting in front of us so i do what i do best..
(well, one of the things i do best anyway..)
i chat the poor guy to death and a half drilling him about the 'must see places' and where we could get discounted tickets for the theme parks and all that sort the whole way the bus driver was driving and trust me, it was a long way to drive.
anyway, we finally arrived at Backpackers in Paradise and were gonna check in but THEY MESSED UP OUR ROOM.
we got two single beds instead of getting our much wanted double bed apartment.
sigh.
but alls good i guess because we managed to sort it out and we only had to stay at the single bedded apartment for two nights before we were allowed to swap over.
anyway, what would we have expected?
we opted for a budget holiday and choose a budget place to stay which was right smack in the middle of Surfers Paradise.
and Surfers Paradise is deff not only paradise for Surfers.
after checking in and dumping our stuff in the apartment, we headed out for some yummy things to eat (i dont remember what we ate already) and walked about a little bit.
we headed to the beach a little bit and the sand was so FINE and lovely and the water was cool and sigh..
i want to be back on holidays again.
anyway, after splashing about a little bit and lying in the sun like the two beach bums we pretend to be, we got sucked into buying two tickets to the 'Wicked Club Crawl' for Wednesday night.
We headed back to the apartment and fell right asleep.
a much deserved break, i think especially after a night flight - or rather an ungodly hour-ed flight -
we woke up just in time for dinner and headed off to the central part of Surfers Paradise and had 'Seafood Mania' for dinner.
i swear, anyone who goes there has to eat at Seafood Mania.
the Scallops were yummy.. i cant remember which scallop dish i had already but its the white buttery one and not the chilli one.
omigod. ITWASSOGOODITHOUGHTTHATIHADANORGASM.
zeke agrees with me that the food was yummy-licious and thats why we went back another four times the whole time we were there but thats another story all together.
After dinner, a nice couple-y stroll took place - hey, its our holiday and we can be romantic and mushy if we wanted to - along 'downtown SP' and the beach.
The next day was pretty much the same.
We explored SP..
..discovered F.'s Tattoo parlour and decided (sort of) that it was there that we would get our tattoo.. eventually.
anyway, we ended up buying tickets for the themeparks in 'Central Shopping Centre' at an information desk.
you used to be able to bargain the prices but now, its all sort of a 'not negotiable at all' zone.
we got tickets for Dreamworld+WhiteWaterWorld and the Fun Pass.
the Fun Pass is basically a one day access for all WB Movie World, Seaworld and Wet n Wild Waterworld over a 5 day span and costs only ~$150.
a little bit of a steal when each ticket for the parts cost about ~$60 to ~$70 each.
it being rainy and stuff, we couldnt really do that much so we ended up going to Infinity
Infinity is basically some kind of walk through maze thing that uses alot of effects to make it seem really futuristics - read: lots of mirrors and lights and stuff which makes it hard for you to find the door out to the next room which contains even MORE lights and mirrors -all the 'unique' special effects are kinda cool to make it seem a little unreal. The one thing that sort of freaked me out is this 'thing' that closes up on you which leads to the next room.i think it works with some kind of pressure pad thing. when you step on it, the 'exit' closes up on you. which is really freaky when you see the exit and suddenly the exit is squishing you into the soft cushions of the wall.
eep! they also had dangling furry things that reminded me alot of hairy spider legs and it being dark and all. ugh.
yuck!
anyway, after that, we walked along the docks a little
my apparent zen tree
got tired after that and headed back to the apartment for some sleepy time before waking up and heading out for the Wicked thing.
i loved how they made everyone wear stickers 'somewhere noticeable' so that people wont hit on someone attached and stuff like that.
they had red stickers for the 'unavailables'. orange stickers for the 'hard to gets'. green stickers for the 'single and availables' and the blue stickers -my personal favorite- for 'horny'.
throughout the night i kept seeing men with heaps of blue stickers plastered over their shirts and .. it was sort of amusing.
free drinks from the clubs we went to and free entry can only keep zeke and i entertained for so long before we got bored and left..
for dinner at SEAFOOD MANIA again before heading back to an early night's rest.
whatever for, you ask.
easy.
dreamworld awaited us the next day.
xoxo
you know you love me
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