quiksilver pro, not a big deal.

this past weekend 6 of us went up to the gold coast, a little place called coolangatta, or as i like to say cool and ghetto, where the 2010 quiksilver pro surf tournament was held. legit, i know. we left friday morning on a bus that dropped us off a little less than a mile from our hostel. we had huge back packs and boxes of goon with us so we looked really cool walking from the bus stop to our hostel. luckily our friend was driving down to meet us and somehow saw us... and gave us a ride. when we got to the hostel the guy checked us in and gave us our keys and told us that the quiksilver surf after party would be starting in a couple hours at the bar underneath our hostel. oh cool, ever day life. siiiiiick. haha also that the official closing party for the tournament would also be happening there. again nothing short of what i would expect... haha i was in love at that point. i had decided that since the party was being held at the place we were staying, i was hosting it. so the entire afternoon when people would ask what we were doing that night, i would immediately say, "hosting the quiksilver pro after party, what are you doing..." it was great. we went to dinner at this pizza place by the water and all shared a huge pizza and garlic bread and each had our own bottle of wine. they do a b.y.o at all of the restaurants there which i find really weird but it was actually really cool. we looked pretty classy walking up to the restaurant with our own bottles of wine. after dinner we went to the coolangatta hotel, apparently voted australia's number 1 hotel, where mickey avalon was playing up stairs. we hung out there for a while then headed back to our hostel where the after party was. it was so much fun i can't even describe it. i'm not sure why it was so fun because i'm pretty sure i danced by myself for about 3 hours but it was a blast. somehow the 6 of us managed to get up in this cage/stage area and dance i don't know how we got up there or who let us but it was soo much fun. all i could think of was how jealous mariah was going to be and how much i wished she was right there next to me. we slept a total of about 3 hours that night because we woke up to it being bright and sunny which hasn't happened much in lismore so we ran straight to the beach. running is actually an extreme exaggeration. but we we managed to get ourselves to the beach. walked all around the surf competition, fulfilled my dreams from when i was a 9 year old boy obsessed with quiksilver by buying a tournament t-shirt and then fell asleep on the beach. rough life, i know. we were really tired at that point and decided that we were just going to watch a movie that night. we found a mexican restaurant, again with the b.y.o, and got some mediocre food. all i can think about is a 103 with beans from el taco and i'm counting down the days for it. i think i can wait though, i mean things here aren't too bad here... =]

my roommates and i cooked dinner tonight which was delicious. when i say my roommates and i, i mean they made the food and i did the dishes. and i will happily make that deal with anyone anytime as long as someone is making me food other than pb&j. my roommates are pretty great actually. one of them is studying to be an osteopath and part of her homework is to give massages. yuuuup. i sign up for that just about every night and it is glorious.

it was finally sunny out today so i took full advantage of that and went straight out to the pool when i woke up. i can't be the whitest person in all my pictures anymore especially when i'm usually with girls from minnesota. im still working on the bronzing so hopefully its stays this sunny for a while.

we had a meeting today for our central australia outback trip and i could not be more excited. our teacher was explaining the sunrise hike and the overnight walk and showed us pictures from previous trips and i couldn't stop smiling the whole time. i can't believe i get to do that and i am so thankful for it and blessed. amazing.

looove