I’m here in Yulara, (the resort next to Uluru).
I realised in my carry on luggage i had a pocket knife and sydney airport security didnt notice.
i found it when i took my laptop out when i got here.
oops.
its not heaps hot here, about to go get me a coke and then head off to do some work.
This morning wife and I headed off to Glenreagh about 30 mins north west of coffs. They have a little steam train! And we all know how much I love steam trains. We found the plae, it was a litle shed in the middle of a muddy paddock. There where about 20 little old men and lades in bright orange vests scattered around the shed. They where all volunteers for this little train. We had to wait about 20mins for the train. It puffed on in and we got on and enjoyed the little 6km train ride.
then it was off to find some lunch. We first stopped at a little bakery that only seemed to sell burnt buns,cakes and bread. We bought a finger bun each, whilst driving away from the bakery jenny managed to drop half her bun under her car seat. The 10 second rule does not apply in our car!
we eventually made it to another place for lunch, I ordered a hamburger with no bettroot, I got given a hamburger with beetroot.
and that brings us up to date.
We awoke early to begin a day of coffs harbouring in the middle of ‘hurricane you-have-to-stay-inside-all-day-or-you-will-drown’
After spending some time playing with my electric train, which laying on the floor I noticed a poo like smell under my nose on the carpet. It was at this point i decided it was time to find a new recreation activity.
We headed to the big banana, You cant really say that the builder of the big banana is compensating for something. The keyrings in the gift shop are bigger than the ‘big banana’ itself. It was pissing down with rain and not a whole lot of shelter so we b-lined for a shopping centre.
I devoured 5 cinnamon donuts and we wandered around for a bit.
Boredom struck so we headed back to the apartment, then it was back into coffs to a restaurant for lunch. I ordered a chicken burger but without the bacon and sun dried tomato. I got a chicken burger with bacon and sun dried tomatos.
After lunch back to the apartment, a bit of sitting, a bit of walking in the rain, a bit of dvd watching a bit of dinner and a bit of board game fun with the old ones.
tomorrow is steam train day, I’m excited about that!
In other news we may need to go to bunnings tomorrow to start buying materials to convert our car into a ship, with a pool of course!
well th beaches are cold, its super windy and raining.
what a super beachside summer holiday
for some reason my shoes really smell at the end of each day up here, like really really smelly. I’ve never had smelly feet but it seems schoolies brings out the worst in people.
Jenny got bitten by some killer ants today.
Getting nice and pink up here on the gold coast.
I know I’ve already said it, but schoolies is crazy!!!!!
Today i got to see a lot of peoples bits and pieces, both girls and boys. Why oh why?
I’m soo tired!
I’m pretty much the best balloon sculpter ther is.
I made over 100 today!
Pretty long day today.
I’m so so so so glad I didnt come to surfers paradise for schoolies. It’s insane.
Today we got to see some toolies doing their thing, their thing involved them running orund and across the gold coast highway nude, hoping to get young grils to come to their party.
the boys in blue came to the recue
Well here I am sitting in our gold coast office soaking up their wireless internet.
Been a pretty good day, tomorrow the work begins.
We drove past the fenced off schoolies beach thing today, its all pretty full on
I think we are in for a big week.
one more sleep.
last night was freaking cold, stupid tassie weather.
there is some good buddies here!
I’m alive, my predictions post is mostly correct.
I have to say i havents been totally bored but there have been moments. it has been cold and am looking forward to being home, mmm my own bed..mmmmcable internet. mmmmmmmmm westfield
Internet is not paramount at this conference so i took the liberty of actually writing this post last Saturday night. and setting it up so it posts it today.
So i have no new news to tell you but i can predict the following.
Right now its cold in tasmnaia, and i dont really want to be here and am excited about coming home in a few days.
just started feeling quite sick, went to visit the lovely dubai airport toilets.
world war 3 was over not long after it started.
lovely.
I was fine the whole time in Kenya, i start coming home and then it all comes undone.
still feeling pretty seedy.
On the upside i found free wifi
we just landed in the dubai
was a flight of crap sleep.
toms leaving on his flight to londond soon then i have a couple of hours to kill until my 14hr flight home.
we are in nairobi airport after spending almost 10 hours travelling 400kn over the worlds worst roads.
2 planes to go
pressing the ‘demo’ button on a keyboard is great backing music for a sermon
hotel rooms in kenya have horrible acoustics, you can hear the ‘plop’ of bathroom users from your bed
when construcing a staircase it is not important to make all steps an equal size
NO WE ARE STILL NOT AMERICANS
Roundabouts encourage traffic jams
kenyans are extrememly friendly
When an descision is needed to be made it is important to stand around for a few hours before actually making that descision
never feel like it is too late to ask a white man for money
if you have asthma dont go into a small mud hut if it has smoke coming out of the door, its like sitting inside a giant bong
hot chips are the unofficial dish of kenya
when preaching in kenya if people wave at you, then you are doing well. If they stand up and walk out maybe not so well
when using a shower it it is important to flood the bathroom as much as possible
if you are friendly to passport control officers they may invite themselves to your birthday party
when leaving kenya leave your suit behind so you never have to wear it again
if a kenyan worship song begins to play in a church or on the radio you have enough time to go back home and have a sleep, eat a meal, go for a walk and have another nap before the song will finish
when ordering chicken stew be sure to remove the feathers before consuming
when you order coke make sure you order ‘baridi’ otherwise you will get room temp coke
when you go through passport control at nairobi airport you find yourself transported to a giant waiting lounge of loud americans, with kenyans only present as cleaners and airport staff
the kenyan countryside is a beautiful thing
be creative when naming your business, for example ‘Rich people also cry butchery’
we are about to leave kitale and travel to nairobi. It should take around 8 - 9 hours.
then at 11:30 pm tonight we fly out to dubia.
should be around 36 hours from when we leave kitale until i arrive in sydney
rain = no power = generators
you can call me ‘the new james clarke’
at the moment the internet cafe we are at has no spare desks for me to put my laptop on so they have given me a chair and a desk outside on the verandah. all that is on this verandah is 1 chair, 1 desk and me and my laptop.
It just started pelting down with rain so i had to run back inside, lappy got a bit wet but he is ok.
yesterday tom and i got the night off which was fantastic! the revival meeting was cancleed because of rain.
this morning we visited a small school that is all just orphans, its a project of a few of the local churches. We played some games with the kiddies which was fun. it seems that older people especially people in powerful positions like pastors just ignore kids and push them away when they are standing too close. Infact when we arrived at the school all the pastors went and sat under a tree and didnt come near the kids excpet for the man translating for me and tom. we had fun playing games and making them laugh.
Its a very tribal culture here, the pastors are the chiefs and all important they get special seats and sodas and get to eat first. Its a bit hard to deal with sometimes cause tom and i are being treated the same way. tom and i asked today if we could hand out the food and rink to the kids at lunch time and the pastor said no. we where just supposed to sit in opur comfy chairs and watch. But in the ned we just sort of did start serving which was probably insultiung their culture by its hard sometines not to be a servant.
if this rain keeps up we may have tonight off too.
