Camping was great!

Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago at 3:13 pm. 2 comments

Except I got really sick and couldn’t talk for two days and now talking hurts.  A whole lot.  I’m going to the doctor tomorrow.

I’ll update with pictures later.

Camping Camptacular III

Posted 2 months ago at 7:26 am. 3 comments

We’re going camping again!

Nathan, Ash, Rach, Laura, Grant and I are heading north on the weekend to go camping! :)  Here’s the general itinerary:

Friday Night

Staying at Mum’s place and having dodgy Morayfield thai food for tea.

Saturday

Waking up at 6:00 and basking in all of mum’s pancake glory - she makes the greatest pancakes in the world.  After robbing mum’s house of all the pancakes, we’re heading off at around 7-7:30ish, hopefully arriving by 8:30/9ish.  Any later and we run the risk of missing out on our excellent campsite down the back.

Definitely stopping off in Maleny for pies though.

Staying the night on Saturday!

Sunday

Waking up, potentially hungover and doing a whole host of camping activities - staying again on Sunday night.

Monday Morning

Packing up and hopefully leaving by 11am.. again stopping at Maleny for pies on the way through.

And that’s it.

Last week while I was in Gladstone (one of the most boring places in the universe, honestly.) Nathan went to Anaconda and braved the crowds, and bought us a camping table, two awesome chairs, a blowup mattress and a blowup mattress blow-er-up-er-er.  Now we have pretty much everything we need, aside from a whole host of awesome lights, but both Ashley and Grant have some, and we have a couple of torches at home.

All the things I hate about the Rockhampton Plaza Hotel.

Posted 2 months, 1 week ago at 12:05 am. 3 comments

The Rockhampton Plaza hotel is a piece of shit. Seriously. A piece of shit. A piece of shit that still, for some reason, see fit to give themselves a 4 star rating.

These are the things I hate about this hellhole, in no particular order.

- The service is fucking awful. The counter staff were cold and unhelpful.

- The shower has NO FUCKING WATER PRESSURE.

- There are 6 levels and only two elevators. Oh yeah. One of the elevators is broken - and by my internet research, has been since at least February. Classy, guys.

- My bathroom leaks. I know this is a fairly general statement so I’ll be a little more specific. There is a pipe that comes out of the wall, and water drips out of it onto my floor.

- ONTO MY FLOOR AND SUBSEQUENTLY ONTO MY PYJAMA PANTS. I thought that deserved its own line

- The room, while not dirty or messy, just seems grubby. The bed is uncomfortable and the sheets just don’t seem white. This isn’t helped by the fact that there aren’t many lights in the room - and one of the lamp globes are broken.

- The TV is fucking small. They say they have cable, but.. they only have 6 channels aside from the normal Free to Air, and three of those are sport.

- There’s no minibar in the rooms. In order to enjoy the minibar, you have to go down to reception and purchase the items from there. What the fuck.

- On all of the websites I visited before opting to stay here, they ALL listed that there was room service. Upon my arrival I was informed that room service has been restricted to breakfast only, and it seems that they intend on keeping it that way.

Out of 10.. I would give this place a 2. Fuck staying in this place, I’d never, ever do it again.

I’m sure I’ll have more to add after I sleep on it. Luckily, I’m off to Emerald tomorrow.

Work Travel :(

Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago at 2:13 pm. 0 comments

I’m really sick of traveling, just FYI.

This week - Townsville.  Next week - Rocky, Emerald, Gladstone.  Week after - Warwick, Toowoomba, Dalby, Kingaroy.

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