2 weeks

Let me preface this by stating that I am buzzed. Moving on...

I realized, I have been in Australia for two weeks now. Things are picking up for me! I had a real good day today. Firstly, I slept in. I had some bizarre dreams last night, I don't remember them I just remember waking up and going "that was a strange dream." Anyway, a sleep in is good. Then I got up and played some Settlers of Catan on asobrain.com and won. A good start to the day, for sure. So I kind of killed time and stuff til 2 pm, then I got a bus to Belconnen and went to the mall because all the major banks have branches there. But before I did that I went to the K-mart (yeah they have those here) and looked at their sports stuff, I thought it would be cool to buy a little cricket set before I come back so I can teach you all and play it in the park. But while I was there I looked at basketballs. Well I spent a while bouncing them and seeing which was best when I heard over the intercom "security to sports," real fuckin subtle right. By then I had picked the best one, but there was no price so I took it to the check out and asked how much it was and it was $4.50 Australian. A STEAL! So I bought it, and the lady had to check my backpack before I could leave, ha! But I didn't take anything so I was off the hook. I then went to commonwealth bank and to my surprise they let me open an account with only one ID! Great news to me, and I put in $100 and they will give me a card which I can use as ID to get my medicare card. YAY! I might not die in this god forsaken hellscape of a country.

Afterwards, I went into the city to meet up with someone I had contacted on couchsurfing.com. Her name is Madi and she is German, might I just say, I fuckin love Germans! They are always such fun people. Anyway we tried to walk to the lake but got lost and chilled in a park a while and chatted. We are going to go to the lake on Wednesday, to make up for today's failure, and maybe go on a hike this weekend. Pretty chill. So after that I went back to the place where I am staying for about half an hour, then my sister came and picked me up. She took me back into the city and we saw her roommate's band perform in this really cool little venue. It was a fun show, the music was good, I had a new beer and it was great. Then I started talking to this dude from Holland, his name is Harmon or something, and we got along pretty well. He asked what I was doing in Australia and I told him 'drinking beer' and then we complained about how expensive beer is here. Then out of no where he bought me a Heineken so I could have a good 'European beer.' He was rad. He told me he was planning on going to this festival in a couple weeks and asked if I wanted to go, I told him 'hell ya' but I don't have a car. Well, turns out he has a car. Then he said tickets were $140 and I told him that was a little steep and he said he would help me pay because he would rather not go alone. HA! I figure I will accept his hospitality because it could be really really fun. I love travelers.

After the show, my sister and I went to a restaurant called the pancake parlour. It is like Shari's except really badass. We had Russian Blintz and 'deluxe fries' which were basically diced potatoes with bacon, cheese, sour cream and green onions. Basically the perfect drunk food. Then we got lost trying to get home (by we I mean Carly got lost, I don't drive in this city, don't blame me.) So instead of being dropped off at Leanne's, I am staying at my sister's tonight. I cracked open a beer and started writing this, so I guess we are all caught up.

I will have photos on facebook tomorrow. Take care y'all. Love ya.