Friday 28th September 2007

We couldn't check out of Bohemia Central quickly enough this morning. The two other people in our dorm were older men - and they absolutely stank! Plus, one of them woke Nikki up this morning with a fart so loud, I think it may have woken everyone else in the hostel as well. We left the room and waited for the free bus, which came at 10am - and took us back to the Bohemia Resort (the first Cairns' hostel we stayed in). When we got there, we booked into a double room and were finally able to block out the horrors of Bohemia Central, and even eat some breakfast.

Once we were ready we walked into town. It took about 15 minutes, but was really nice out in the sunshine. We decided that the first thing we would do, would be to go and check on the laptop. They said it was currently being fixed and to come back this afternoon. There was some good news though - when i'd got it back from the Byron Bay Apple shop, I discovered that they'd scratched the lid... pretty badly - but the Cairns' shop agreed to replace it for me... yippee!

We spent the afternoon wandering about in the sunshine. We walked down to the lagoon , where we lay on the grass chatting, and then had a picnic. Afterwards we went into Travel Bugs to use the internet and look around the shops. I even managed to spend some more of my birthday money (the money I don't even know if i'm gonna get yet) - and bought myself a new Billabong wallet. We also went back to the Apple shop the collect the laptop - only to discover that they'd replaced the bottom case and not the badly scratched top one. They realised it was their mistake, and though I was a little annoyed that I was going to have to take it in AGAIN, I didn't really mind because with all the news parts i've been given, it's almost brand new... WooHoo!

On our way back to the bus, we went into Rusty's Market and bought some more of the cheap vegetables for our tea. Then when we got back to the hostel I cooked us tea (again). I made us a vegetable cous-cous thing... and it was lovely. We ate it and then watched Silent Hill on the hostel big screen.

That's two meals in a month i've cooked now... this traveling lark is doing me the world of good!