"Just Smile and Say Stuff"

One thing that i absolutely love about my australian life is that many thing i do are spontaneous and have not been meticulously planned out. For instance, last night was friday and Steph and i had no plans to do anything special, which is kinda sad because we only have so many friday nights left in australia! Anyways, it was a chill day with bible study in the morning and a little bike ride to the grocery store and then later i got a txt from a friend from church inviting us to come over to hangout later that night. I was so excited to have something to do and with people that i have become very close to in the passed few months. There ended up being a lot of people from our church group there and in the australian way, they all brought some sort of drinks with them....now before my trip here i would have probably been completely judgmental about a group of young christians getting together for drinks but in australia that is not uncommon at all. they don't go over board and they are all legal here so it's really not that big of a deal whereas in the states it probably would be frowned on slightly. Anyways, we had fun joking around and hanging out until everyone decided that it was getting late and we departed....

On the funnier side, kevin, who is the guy who graciously gives us rides to church and other activities picked us both up but there was one too many people than seats, so one of the guys decided it would be heaps of fun to ride in the boot (trunk) and that's exactly what he did....i don't recommend it for long road trips, but it got us from point A to point B....he was so funny because he would request the volume to be turned up or the song to be changed from the boot, which made his voice really muffled....the whole ordeal just made me laugh.

Since it was a late night i was excited about getting a sleep in...but of course i woke up at 7:30am and peeked out my window to see what the weather looked like, as steph and i were planning to bike to the beach ...and it was cloudy so i went back to sleep. We ended up going to the beach anyway, and it was somewhat sunny.....as i now feel the sunburn on my back :) but really really windy. the sand was blowin every where so we just moved up to the grassy park area just before the beach. It made me feel like i was back at winthrop lake in the spring time.

So that has been my friday and saturday....no plans for tonight..so far...but tomorrow we are all going to Green Island so that should be heaps of fun....Im really keen to hangout with everyone from church again....and i want to take every opportunity to hangout with them since my time here is quickly coming to an end... :( They have already threatened to capture me so i can't leave....haha