Theresa vs Townsville

May 1^st-4th

Theresa’s visit

6PM Rhona, Miranda, Morgan, Scott and I jumped on a bus headed for the ferry terminal. One of my best friends from America, who is studying in Cairns (just North of Townsville) was coming to visit. It was like a Baywatch episode when we saw each other, haha not really, but ya we were both excited to see each other. We decided ahead of time we were going out for dinner-hence the crowd coming with me to get her. We ate dinner at this “fish and chips” shop—obviously I had a veggie burger and chips (French fries). Yummm. Then we enjoyed the most delicious icecream (of course) in Townsville before heading down Flinder’s Street to catch a bus back to Uni. The bus stop was an interesting adventure because we had to wait forevvvver for it to come. Miranda, Scott and I did head stands in the small section of grass in the road (ouch!)

Theresa came in hopes that we could dive the infamous shipwreck, the Yongala, but unfortunately the trip was cancelled. Supposedly the wreck is a pretty tough dive to make. They require that you have at least 6 dives under your belt and 15 if you want to dive without a guide. Anyway, the conditions were supposedly really choppy due to wind exposure, probably one of the reasons the ship got shipwrecked in the first place! We rescheduled for Monday (as it was a public holiday) but with our luck it was also cancelled for similar reasons.

However, we made use of our time and enjoyed a relaxing laid back weekend. Funny story—I had to register that I had a guest that weekend, and it happened to be the same weekend that some large concert was going on in Townsville (I actually didn’t hear about it until like a day before it happened) so there was competition to get a mattress for your guest. I luckily had applied for one several days in advance so it wasn’t a problem. The problem was that I put the mattress in my hall thinking it would be okay because all my floormates are cool and wouldn’t take it. However, when Theresa and I arrived back in my room after picking her up—the mattress was gone! I was like WTF? Thinking the RA must have come by and taken it I called them up, no word of it. I was making a pretty big fuss up and down my hall about it but no one had taken it. I didn’t ask the girl living next door to me because I assumed that she hadn’t taken it—I never talk to her and she seems like a quite reserved person. What do you know, I gave it a shot, went to her door and she freaking had it! I was so aggravated—she could obviously hear me making a fuss about it in the hallway but just ignored it and pretended she was clueless when I came to her door. So bizarre—one of my floormates came in my room and was like ya see you know those people that are all quiet and then blow up their school—she’s one of them!! I totally agreed. : p

Saturday we slept in (what a weirdddddddd concept!) and when we finally got going for the day we decided to climb Castle Hill, the big mountain in our town. It was definetly the hottest part of the day and here we were making the exhausting hike. It was definetly tiring, the view was good though and it actually took far less time than we thought. We enjoyed some picture taking and a bit of a picnic at the top. Theresa had a tripod with her and was snapping landscape photos for her class. I got to pretend to be her sweet assistant. Scott and Morgan also came with us. On our way back down it was much harder, I guess we are all out of shape –scary! Our legs were shaking all over the place by the time we got down—even after we were on a flat surface. By the time we got down pretty much everything in Townsville was closed so we simply had to go back to campus.

Saturday night Theresa was convinced we were going to live the Townsville night life. We (Theresa, Scott, Morgan and I ) got all jazzed up and headed for Flinder’s Street (the club street), as soon as we pulled up to the city mall bus stop we saw Dylan. Somehow we convinced him he had to come out with us and surprisingly he did! It was a pretty hyper night—we went to this club called the Bank and also to our favorite restaurant Cactus Jack’s. The music at the Bank was so much better than at the place we went a few weeks ago, so when we decided to leave at 1AM I was a little bummed. But I think we all got loosened up and really had a good time—we even got up on this platform to dance!! AH! (lots more details but not really necessary to write here) Quite a fun night!

Sunday Theresa really wanted to go shopping, specifically she needed sunglasses. It seems like sunglasses are cursed here, I have lost the ones I originally came here with, Morgan has broken 2 or 3 pairs and Theresa too. We decided to go to the Sunday markets but obviously we slept in and pretty much missed that. But we did manage to get into some stores where Theresa found some good stuff. Then we continued our shopping at Stockland, the big mall-plaza place, in Townville. This was fun because I never really looked here just to look, I usually went to get essential things like apple juice and crackers (haha). I didn’t buy anything, but I definitely found enough stuff if I had the extra money (which I most definitely won’t!). Sunday night we didn’t have any plans, but wanted to do something since for the second time our dive was cancelled Monday which meant Theresa was going to leave earlier Monday. So, we decided to go for a movie! We went to see this movie called 17 again. Obviously a chick-flick but the main character was actually a boy this time so maybe it was a boy-flick? I’m not sure, definitely a new twist on chick-flicks. Basically it was about this boy who was the basketball superstar of his highschool but he got his girlfriend pregnant and instead of going on to college and bball he got married and lead the family life. Then obviously something happened where he could go back in time and live it again. Since it is a chick-flick you should be able to figure out what happened. It was nice—and Rhona, Scott and Morgan went with us.

Monday morning—we slept in again and then took a tour around campus so Theresa could get a picture by the sweet big JCU sign. Then we went down to the bus terminal and parted ways. A relaxing weekend, but it was nice to just chill out for once!