Cairns!

So I haven't updated a while because I have been buuuusy. After Brisbane, I spent a few nights with Leanne's son Shaun and his wife Chrissy. They were great, really hospitable and just super fun. I had a good amount of XXXX Gold, which I have since come around to. I love canned beer! haha. Anyway the highlight was going to a rugby game. It was the Gold Coast Titans (home team) against the Canberra Raiders (my team.) Anyway I wore the away team colors and took heaps of shit for it. Shaun had the hook ups and we sat in a corporate box from his work. It was like normal seating, but has a cooler full of beer which I helped myself to. Haha. I got fairly loaded and cheered louder and louder for the raiders with each passing brew. Anyway Raiders lost in the end :( Good times anyway. Then I took a lovely 30 hour bus trip to Cairns in far north Queensland. Cairns has been the town of crazy adventures and mixed blessings. I can't write in full because my laptop batter is low and I am at the McDonalds using the wifi. Yesterday I got pissed at how touristy it is here and took a city bus about half an hour north to Trinity beach. I didn't swim since it is stinger season and decided to hike up this hill with no trail. There were heaps of trees and sedges that were taller than me. Half way up I thought to myself "this is how tourists die" but then firgured I am a Washingtonian and we don't go out like bitches. Well getting up was a challenge, but getting down was a nightmare! I couldn't see where I was stepping and on a few occasions dropped 3 or 4 feet straight down. There were heaps of spiders too, and some got up my shorts and kept biting at my leg. Anyway after that at the hostel I played Kings Cup with some Danes and French people. I got WAYYYYYYY to drunk on cheap goon, threw up a couple times and passed out. The next morning I got up at 5 a.m., dropped my laptop on the floor hard, and headed to the dock to get on the reef tour I booked. The tour was awesome. We went a couple hours out to a little sandy island and snorkeled above the most amazing coral reef with all sorts of cool fish, rays, coral and other underwater buggers. Then we went to another reef without a beach and snokeled over more reef. The second reef was better but the waves were bigger so it was harder to swim there. So amazing though, I can't even describe how epic it was. Now I am going to get my free dinner and hopefully buy a ipod charger somwhere.