Part 3

In the car again, but this time its for a week of travel.
Our first night we stayed in a small town called Albury. We went to the local ‘club’ for dinner and afterwards we hit the slot machines, and guess what…yep I was a winner. I walked out of that place the biggest winner of us, with whopping $7.00 barley enough for a coffee in this country, but still a winner and man was I proud of it, I just love slot machines!
After a bad nights sleep because of a local dog greeting everything in sight from 3 am-8am, we headed to the capital, Canberra. We walked a bit around town, had dinner at a pub and slept off the good draft beer ready for our exciting morning of the parliament house. Pretty much the only thing to do in Canberra is see all the parliament things. The city reminded me a lot of Ottawa, a very nice boring city where the government is the only draw for tourists.
Anyway after that morning we were all pretty happy to make our way through the thick fog and finally get to Sydney, I mean we were only 250 Km away.
Okay so we didn’t make it, we made it as far as Mollymook.
It was a nice little town with a beach, Mom and Dad were happy to see the beach and walk along it, while Julia and I were happy to see the local pub.
After a bottle of wine we met mom and dad for dinner and I again played the slots, no winnings tonight but im sure ill have lots of chances to make it up.
Okay so today we are going to make it to Sydney…I hope.
Pulling into the city the only hotel we could find is a 5 star…oh poor us! We were right down town so it was great for us to get around and see it all. We did the bus tour the next day and saw all the sites. But all our stories came from our nights out.
My friend Rachel who I met traveling in Laos now lives in Sydney so we went out for dinner and drinks in Bondi Beach. It was great to see her again. We went back to the hotel, late and a bit tipsy when as soon as we got to the hotel fire alarms went off. We had to wait 20 minutes to even get up to our room. When we finally made it, and sneaked into the room so not to wake mom and dad. Wait a minute WAKE mom and dad, wasn’t there just a long fire alarm going off all over the hotel? Well sleeping beauties slept right through it! Jules and I got all ready for bed in pj’s and all when we closed the bathroom door to find out that it had locked itself! It was in the middle of the night, the second of 4 fire alarms to go off that night was in full swing, mom and dad were snoring and we had just locked ourselves out of the bathroom. A typical night for us I would say!
Julia being the kind person she is, went down to the front desk in her jogging pants... I was wearing sparkly pink pants or I would have gone, she managed to get someone’s attention over all the guest screaming thinking they were burning to death to listen to her story of sleeping parents and a locked bathroom.
The hotel staff guy ushered her through the swarm of fire fighters and came up to our room with some kind of tool to open the door for us. We managed to get him in and out of our room, mostly due to his amazing ‘James bond backward shuffle’, open the bathroom door and leave all without waking mom and dad. Only to find out in the morning they had woken up to Julia and I giggling. They made fun of us coming in so late giggling all night…ummm you would have cracked up too if all this had happened under the noses of two snoring parents.
The next night we went for dinner at some strange German restaurant and I had a huge beer that I couldn’t even finish, Julia and I again left the snorers to do their thing while we went looking for an adventure…needless to say we found one. The Navy aboard the USS Kitty Hawk were in town and they just happened to be at the corner pub. But that’s a story for another time.