Day 22
Surfs up!
Justin and I took surf lessons today, and it has been the highlight of our trip so far.
The instructor was hilarious and made sure we all stood up.
While we were all struggling to get the basics down, he showed off by doing handstands on his board.
We are still in Noosa Head.
I get asked a lot what we eat...
Every morning I usually eat a bowl of muesli with vanilla meal replacement shake and a banana.
We snack around lunch time- we've probably eaten 30 packages of rice crackers. Peanut butter and Nutella on bread or crackers is a favourite mid day snack.
Dinner generally consists of soup or stew with rice or pasta. We eat all kinds of fresh fruit throughout the day.
Yes I'm still a vegetarian, no I wouldn't eat meat under any circumstance.
We went to the Koala bar and an Irish pub looking for a little excitement but cut out early.
I slept on the beach which was wicked, but got rained on.
No clue what we're doing tomorrow.

Day 21
WTF.
Bad day haha.
Called Tom again this morning. "sorry mate, raining again, give me a shout tomorrow"
Justin's job had finished, and I was tired of getting the run around, so we decided to cut our losses and leave the city.
Not only had I not made ANY money (Tom didn't have cash on him the day I did work for him), but I had lost money eating, staying in hostels, driving to Mount Nebo etc.
Icing on the cake, Justin and I forgot to register the Jackaroo within 14 days of buying it and we are in for huge late fees!
We got to the RTA office only to find out that because we are in a different state than we bought the truck in (bought it in New South Wales, Brisbane is in Queensland) we would need to start all over with certification, Queensland plates, the whole works.
BRAINSTORM! Let's drive back to the border, register the truck in the first small town in NSW, and continue on our journey!
It actually worked out, we had skipped a town called Twead Heads on the way up, and it was really nice to see. The lady at the RTA office even waved the late fee!
Thankfully we hadn't driven too far out of state, so we hit the road again, gave Brisbane the finger heading North, and landed in a town called Noosa Heads.
Signed up for surf lessons for the following morning and slept in a park.

Day 20
My first day of work!
I woke up at 5am today and called my boss. Yes! he said, there would be work.
I drove almost an hour, straight up a mountain to a town called Mount Nebo.
I met Tom at a cafe, and he showed me my task for the day- digging six 5 feet deep holes. barf.
Not even two hours into my backbreaking work, it started to pour down rain and we were forced to stop.
Bittersweet I think is the word I'm looking for.
It didn't rain in the city, so Justin had another full day of work.
The point of the Brisbane stop was to earn some money, so far that hasn't worked out too well.
A little disapointed, I needed a change of scenery, so we switched hostels to 'Cloud 9' down the street.
We roomed with an Australian girl, Justin had a crush on her.

Day 19
Got up at 5am to get ready for work.
Somebody had completely blocked me in so I couldn't get the truck out.
Long story.
Finally got it out, as I'm leaving the hostel, it starts raining.
My boss told me to call him if it rains, so I did, and sure enough he called off work for the day.
Justin went off to work.
We entered quiz night as Team Canada at the bar, there was a $100 top prize.
We cheated and still got thwamped.
How many states are there in the US?
They have rum and coked on tap here. Literally, it comes in kegs premixed, and is comes out of a tap just like beer. Justin hates it.
Itching to leave the city.

Day 18
Sunday today, not much going on.
We spent the day sprawling out, watching movies, exploring a bit.
Picked up a pair of work shoes, start my landscaping job tomorrow.
There is half decent cover band playing in the bar all day today. About the most exciting thing happening.
Finished 'Into the Wild'. Really great book, if the movie ever plays here I'll see it.
Bought 'Walden and Civil Disobedience' by Henry Thoreau. It was quoted a couple times in a documentary I did called 'Off the Grid', so I wanted to see what it was all about.
Finally got some pictures up.
Laundry.