Ok so a couple of Tuesday’s ago we decided that we wanted to go to the Gold Coast for the weekend because there was a surf competition going on. So we all planned it – 16 of us decided to go we booked our hostels and we were ready for it. On Thursday we found out that the surf competition had been cancelled because the weather was bad and the waves weren’t good enough… Darn… Well we had already booked our hostels and everyone wanted to go anyway so 10 am we met at the bus stop and jumped on the bus to the train station. The Gold Coast is about 2 ½ hours away from us, so we took buses and trains to get there.. The train cost us $2.99 to get there – crazy eh! The one thing that is probably cheap in this country.. So we finally got to our destination – got our hostels sorted out and we were ready to go.
We toured around a little bit down to the beach and grabbed some lunch and stuff, and then headed back to the hostel. A few of us had decided that we were just going to hang out there for the night and then we were going to go out Saturday night – well that plan didn’t fall through.. During the day we had broken into groups and the one group who still hadn’t showed up yet said they had a surprise for us when they showed up… So in they walk and said that they had purchased all of us Pub Crawl tickets for Friday and Saturday night for $15 and a free drink (of chocolate milk of course) at every bar! Well that was pretty good because our hostel offered us the Pub Crawl for only Saturday night for $30.. so the group that decided to stay at the hostel got ready pretty quick.. so that’s what we ended up doing for the two nights we were at the Gold Coast – the bars were insane! ‘Vanity’ was the bar that we were told to check out the bathrooms.. I found that a tad strange – but the bathrooms had red toilets, there were shelves in the stalls so you could put your clutch, camera, whatever else you had in your hands, down and not worry about them… there was a girl in there straightening people’s hair, doing their make-up it was nuts, and entire section that had stools and make up mirrors… the catch phrase of the bar was “Vanity – because it’s all about you” haha…
So then on Sunday we decided to give the surf competition a try the website made it sound like it was looking good.. The competition was an hour away on a city bus so we got up early checked out of the hostel and headed to Coolangata… We arrived – and there it was tons and tons of people were on the beach, posters everywhere, Quicksilver and Roxy signs everywhere, surf competition was a go! We all decided to get some brekky cause we were hungry and then head down to the beach! We got to the beach – found a spot and camped there the rest of the day.. We had surfer’s run through our group, around us, everywhere – we managed to get some pretty close photos.. We even had ‘Kelly Slater’ run right past us – who apparently is a pretty famous surfer – in fact right now he’s rated # 1 in the world! It was pretty sweet! We hung out there for the day – took a dip in the water (where the surfers weren’t surfing – but were surfing past us). It was a pretty awesome weekend, and I’m really glad the surf competition was a go on Sunday – because that was wicked to see! When we went to the catch the bus back to the train station we realized we were in a different state… we were right on the boarder… so far I’ve been in Queensland and New South Wales, haha… We had to cross the street to catch the bus so we caught the bus in NSW, and there is an hour time difference from one state to another! It was weird… So back home we head – we all have sun burns / tans – and big old racoon faces with sunglass tans! We were wiped… but it was an awesome weekend! Maybe one day I’ll take surf lessons…..
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