Sept. 27th - Oct. 3rd (Week 12) YAY for Spring Break! Although, not a true break because I had a presentation due the day we go back to Uni, but whatev. I wasn't going to let that take over my break, although, it didn't really matter since it was STILL raining! This was week 2 of no running, and it's really starting to piss me off.
On Wednesday I ended up going to the Blue Room Cinema (the fancy shmancy movie theaters). I can't help myself, it's just a cool place to go and who wouldn't want to drink some wine while watching a movie?
On Thursday Lina picked up the rental car for our trip down to Byron Bay, so we decided to go to our new favorite home shopping place, Ikea. I've always been an Ikea hater, but honestly, the store is really starting to grow on me. We got some cute stuff for our place..
Ok, I'm sorry I have to interrupt this post because in real time it just started raining, AGAIN! WTF?!? Lina and I were going to go running tomorrow (it's 1am). Seriously, weather?! Seriously?!
Sorry, ok where was I? So we got some cute shit for our place. Yay. Sorry, I'm in a bad mood right now. Anyway, Lina, our mutual friend Chey, and I decided to take a girls trip down to Byron Bay for a weekend getaway. I have to say I have never yelled at so many people in such a short amount of time in my life, and my experience unfortunately left a bad taste in my mouth for Byron Bay.
We get to Byron and decide to go shopping. Lina exits a dressing room that I was in prior to her, and this sales woman comes running up to her asking to search Lina's purse because an empty hanger was left in the dressing room. So Lina chucks her purse at the sales woman and lets her have it. Than the sales woman proceeds to accuse me, since I was in the dressing room first. I explain that the hanger was already in the room when I tried on clothes and that I'm going to PAY for my clothes and never shop at this store again. So, that was highly insulting and offensive and I let them know that, even though they had no sympathy for wrongfully accusing us. We got to the hostel which had a really fun and cool vibe, so that was good. We went and got a drink at the hostel bar and our night seemed to get better. After visiting a couple bars we decided to head to a different one that ended up charging $15 cover! No thanks. So we walked by some random girl and for no apparent reason (other than being wasted) she called the three of us some very distasteful names that I will not mention here. So, me being drunk yelled back some very distasteful names that I will not mention here. Lina also yelled back some distasteful names in Spanish that I do not know how to pronounce or spell, so those as well will go without mention. So far Byron Bay is getting the thumbs down from me. The next day we decided to go visit the lighthouse where you get a beautiful view of the ocean and all of Byron Bay. We were even lucky enough to spot some whales off in the distance. The sky was beginning to look ominous though and we could actually see a rain wall moving in on us from the ocean. We estimated we had about ten minutes to get to our car before it was going to hit land. We estimated wrong. As we started walking to our car which was a 10 minute walk away, people began sprinting past us and yelling various things in their native languages. We just thought they were mostly weird, overreacting Swedish people. But then we felt a couple drops and realized these people were all yelling some form or variation of "RUN!" Not even a second later did we get caught in a crazy downpour with wind and it was just a crowd of people sprinting to the parking lot (note picture above of people running and the one asshole with the umbrella watching us). I have to say that was my favorite part of the entire trip because it was a hilarious situation. However, you know it's pretty bad when getting downpoured on is the highlight of your vacation.
The next day we went to Nimbin, which is supposed to be this cool hippie town. It was kind of like Haight and Ashbury on crack. Like if there was a horror film involving a creepy hippie town, this is where it would be filmed. The second you walk down the street, people who look less hippie and more homeless (I could only surmise from the affects of doing way too many drugs for way too long) constantly offer you "cookies" while the more forward ones just say "marijuana?!" You can't help but have the immediate reaction of thinking to yourself, "not from you!" We went, we saw, we conquered, and then we quickly left. With it being torrential rain almost the entire day, we tried to salvage the night and make the most of it. So we braved the rain and went out which needless to say was a journey that just wasn't worth it. We were completely drenched by the end of the night and the clubs were no fun.
We left in the morning before anything else could possibly go wrong. And that was my weekend getaway vacation.
I hate you, Byron Bay.
Jillian aka Jilly, Jillypet, Jillybean, J-Dilla, J-Bones, and sometimes Crab Cakes
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