Let's get off this $#@$%!& rock!
Well we have finished the work portion of our trip, and we are back on the road.
Justin, Devon and Andrew from Vancouver, Kiwi Kylee and I loaded into the Jackaroo and returned to civilization yesterday.
Some of the highlights of this past couple weeks:
Getting bullied by the head chefs.
Confronting and making a fool of the head chefs.
Getting the 3 head chefs fired, and literally being called heroes.
Late night road trip to Happy Valley with Kylee and Jessica.
Pushing Dave onto what I thought was a harmless snake, turned out to be a king brown.
Dave lighting his stomach on fire with spray deodorant and putting a cigarette out on his chest.
Playing Monopory with the Asian girls on Christmas eve.
Justin, Adam, Chan and Miguel going shark fishing on Christmas day.
Running into the sexy pastry chef from Deerhurt that I've never talked to before.
Getting the Jackaroo airborn and landing way too hard, ripping the front bumper off.
Ahh memories.
It's probably a good thing we left the island, there is talk of a cyclone hitting on saturday, and the whole island may have to be evacuated.
The plan today is to drop Kylee Dev and Andrew off, and head north. I'm going to miss these guys, Kylee especially. hey-o.
We had a lot of fun on the island, and made a lot of intense friendships. If we had more time, I would have stayed.
Sailing in the Whitsundays is next, diving the Great Barrier reef in Cairns, selling the Jackaroo and New Zealand here we come....

So last night was the staff Christmas party...
As most Christmas parties go, it was a complete drunken disaster.
Justin got thrown out, Dave smashed a bottle on the resort and we almost got in about 10 fights.
Not a good night.
In other news...
Yesterday was my first day as manager of the shop, I'm a real hardass to work for.
My first act as manager was initiating a 'icecream break for non-smokers' every afternoon.
Justin and I handed in our resignation sighting 'the food' as the reason why we're leaving.
Vancouver Devon is leaving on boxing day with us, so Christmas Eve is going to be a Canadian themed going away party.
Justin and Nicky are in love.
It's getting really hot here.

Justin, Aussie Dave and I all had a few days off, so we are on a roadtrip.
Getting off this island is a juggling act. Barge times, tide tables, it was a bit of a chore to get onto the mainland.
It feels nice to drive on a road and eat something other than resort buffet.We headed back to Noosa Heads, we didn't get enough last time.
We went to an Irish pub last night, and guess who was there? My cousin Michelle.
She's on her way to the Whitsundays, our next stop before Cairns. We hope to do some sailing there.
I went and saw the Bee Movie, two thumbs down.
Today we are going to surf and pick up supplies- it's strange the things we can't get on the island.
They don't believe in gum, stick deodorant, bottles of beer...
I think I may have conviced Justin to stay on the island for a little while longer.
Well, I give myself credit, but I'm pretty sure it has something to do with Nicky from the store. hey-o.
As my lovely sister rudely pointed out, we didn't come here to work and stay in one place, but I love it here.
Decisions decisions...

So I'm at the shop...
This really pretty girl walks in and buys an ice-cream.
I don't know why, but something seemed very familiar about her.
I asked her if she knew me, she had no idea.
We got to talking, and she's from the town my grandparents are from in Canada!
We chatted, she left, then came back in about an hour and asked me out for a drink after my shift.
What are the odds she's from Clinton Ontario?
This is where things get weird.
A couple hours and a couple hundred drinks later, she mentions that her grandma had a dog named taco.. That's weird, my dad's aunt had a dog named taco....
We realised, halfway through the night, that although we had never met in person, we are in fact second cousins!
Crazy.
This lady comes in every morning, pulls all the milk out of the fridge and looks for the latest expiry date.
That was a joke.

D-Day...
Justin and I have decided to go our seperate ways.
I think island life is getting to him.
I don't know what more you could ask for...
We work on a beach with stressfree jobs, resort food, beautiful women every day, free accomodation....
He's got his heart set on workin in the outback on a cattle farm. I have more than one problem with that.
I don't want him to stay if he's not happy here, but it's great having a friend around.. we'll see.
On the lighter side of life...
Every day at the shop, some man calls, in a very serious voice says a 4 or 5 digit number and then hangs up.
I have no idea what it is, but I hope it's not anything important.
I keep meeting Aussies who have seem more of Canada than I have...
I need to do a Canadian adventure in '08, who's with me?

Day 30... must have missed a few days somewhere...

So how is this for a scenario...
My friend Dave from Australia, Mic from Ireland, Miguel from Mexico and I were playing tennis under the lights last night.
Miguel fires a ball over the fence.
One of the two large dingos that were watching us play ran over, grabbed the ball and started playing with it.
We played paper scissor rock, Dave lost, so he had to go get the ball back while the three of us yelled at the dingo.
A great moment.
What else...
The manager of the resort told me to shave my beard, I told him that wasn't an option. He was cool with that.
This guy at the shop came in today and asked me what part of America I was from. "The Canadian part" I said.
We both had a good chuckle, but then I stared at him straight faced until it got weird and he left the store.
I'm training a new girl tomorrow, Nicky from Holland. Gorgeous.
I think I'm going to cool it on the Blogaroo for a while. Work work work.
End transmission.

Day 27
Andy 1 Justin 0
Justin ripped on me the entire day yesterday because he scored the better job.
I went in to work today, mentally prepared to wash dishes in a hot kitchen for 10-12 hours. Before even stepping into the kitchen, I got promoted to work at the general store in town.
I work 10 days on, 4 days off, 10 hour days, 8-6.
Justin works a lame shift, 10-2 and then 5-9ish.
Luckily I'm working with my friend Devon from Vancouver, she keeps me entertained when the store gets slow.
After work, everyone heads to the bar and spends all the money they earned that day.
Working the cash register is great. There are no one cent pieces in Australia, so everything is rounded. There are no quarters, but 20 and 50 cent pieces.
Internet about to run out. That is all.
Andy out.