So, Chris is here. He arrived at 11 am yesterday.
I walked down to Sadie's place of work to enjoy a flat white and was quite pleased to find she had two minutes until her scheduled 30 minute break. We sat together and chatted. When her break was over I walked a block or so to the train station and was getting ready to set up camp (I was about half an hour early) when a train pulled up. I looked left and right hoping to see Chris... AND I DID. He arrived only about two minutes after I did. We had big hugs and walked promptly to our hostel to check in.
Our room is kind of crappy. It has only one tiny window and the only other lighting is a bare lightbulb hanging in the middle of the room. We've made it quite homie though. We were talking about getting some sticky notes and labeling each of the shelves "Jeri's room" "Chris' room" "kitchen" "storage room" and other such to pretend it's a full home.
So far today we walked to Cole's for breakfast food, made breakfast, had a dip in the pool... went for kebabs and met with Sadie.... got a library card... researched travel options...
Our plan as of now is to leave on Sunday (today is Friday) and head to Maleny to scope out the "House of Laurels" scene... then buy greyhound passes to Byron Bay. And then back up to Airlie Beach to look for work of nothing catches our fancy before then.
The rain stopped the day before Chris arrived and it has been HOT and sunny out since. Perfect beach weather... now if only there was a beach around.
That's all for now!
What's a "flat white"?
ReplyDeleteAnd your life is sounds very 1800's right now (well, except for wide-spread availability of electric light, even if it is just a bare bulb hanging from the ceiling). But all this taking trains to "look for work"? Reminds me of the hard times of yesteryear....
A "flat white" is my new favorite coffee drink. It is superb. It's a shot of espresso run a little longer than a latte shot, with steamed milk and very minimal foam. Mmmm. And I've cut down my sugar-in-coffee intake. Just one teaspoon now.
ReplyDeleteChris says: You should say "actually that should say 'fat white' and I was talking about my boyfriend"
These are the hard times of yesteryear, I tell you. We just got dropped off at a library to use the internet and it felt wrong in there... so Chris looked out the window and noticed the library we thought we were in was actually across the river... so we walked over there, spent maybe an hour trying to connect to the internet... then came back to the original library. Sheesh.