Wednesday 12th September 2007

We were up quite early this morning - not because of 'dirty shaggers', but because of some Irish lads - who thought it was appropriate to sing the theme tune to Postman Pat... at about 9am. The sun was shining through the window, so we thought there was little point in staying in bed any longer - and got up for another day in the sun. It's starting to get REALLY hot now!

The first job of the day was to text Wilksi. It's his birthday today (it'd just turned midnight at home) and we wanted to be the first to wish him a Happy Birthday! Afterwards we had showers, got ready, put our sun cream on and left.

Today was spent wandering around Airlie Beach. We looked in all the shops and... NIKKI FINALLY SPENT THE LAST OF HER BIRTHDAY MONEY - 131 days after her birthday. Afterwards we had a smoothie and then we went down to the Lagoon where we lay in the sun for a few hours and did some reading.

We headed back to the hostel at about 6pm. We'd arranged with some of the girls from the Habibi to meet up for some drinks and possibly food tonight at 6.30pm. Before we went to meet them we went to phone Wilksi. I think we woke him and Vicky up. Vicky wasn't too bad but Wilksi sounded half-asleep. It was good to speak to them both though - it was the first time in nearly 5 months - Nikki even sang him Happy Birthday! When we'd finished the call, we went back to the bar and met the girls. They were eating pizza, but me and Nikki didn't fancy any - so we shared a jug of beer instead. After about an hour 3 of the girls left to catch their bus, and we sat with another 2 for a little while longer - sharing traveling stories, before going out for some food.

We went to try and get an indian, but when we got the restaurant they said they were doing take-away only... d'oh! Instead, we had... pizza - but from Domino's, not our hostel.

Oh, the joy of hostels - i've been bitten loads, and have been scratching all day!

Happy Birthday Wilksi!