Friday 21st September 2007

We woke up at about 8am this morning and had showers before going down to reception for our free breakfast. It was only 2 pieces of toast with butter and jam, Weetabix and either tea and coffee - but you can't complain when it's free! We ate the toast and saved the Weetabix for when we get to the next place, and the breakfast isn't free (clever eh?).

After breakfast, we moved our bags to another room (because a group of 4 had been booked into ours) and then headed into town again. When we got there we had another look around the shops (Cairns is pretty big, so there was loads we didn't see yesterday) and then tried to contact Glen and Jade, from Magnetic Island, because we knew they were here too. I even started spending my birthday money (I hope I still qualify - even though i'm away from home) and bought some new Billabong shorts.

This afternoon we went into Travel Bugs to use the 'free' internet and finally managed to book some accommodation for a couple of days over Christmas in Perth. We've been trying to find something for ages, because we wanna take Emma to the beach on Christmas Day, and everything has been booked - but we found triple room at Scarborough Beach and snapped that up... yippee!

Afterwards we went to have some lunch before we met Glen and Jade and went in a really nice café not far from the sea. The place was quite posh and I ordered a chicken & avocado sarnie and Nikki ordered a prawn roll. It seemed like a simple request, but little did I know - all hell was about to break loose. First, they brought out my sarnie and had made Nikki's wrong - they brought her a sarnie instead of the roll. D'oh - back that went! Next, when that had been corrected, I was tucking into my sarnie (which was bloody lovely) and Nikki into her roll when she had a look inside to see what was in there - and only found two prawns. Apparently that was a problem, so she was straight up to the counter. She made them feel so bad they gave us a side-plate with about 4 prawns and everyone was happy... brilliant!

We spent the rest of the afternoon down at the Lagoon with Glen and Jade. Me and Glen played footie while the girls chatted and then we went for a swim. Afterwards we found a shop called The Great British Lolly Shop - and it was amazing, they sold all sorts of sweets, chocolate and crisps - all delivered from the UK. We had a field-day!

This evening me, Nikki, Glen and Jade went for a meal in a posh looking Chinese place. We felt really out of place because we were in our shorts and vests, when the other diners were all dressed up. We didn't care though and had a really nice meal. When it was finished we went back to their hostel for a beer before coming back to ours.

4 prawns... you call that a prawn sandwich? Get me the manager!