As this was our last full day in Perth, we needed to use our return tickets for Adventure World, and thought that setting the alarm for 9.30am would give us enough time to get up, pop in to town to post some postcards and then make our way to the park... it didn't! We got up and got ready pretty quickly, but we decided to surf the internet. Then when we walked into town we thought we'd ring the hotel in Bali to check on our booking - what a nightmare! First of all we lost our money in the phone-box then, when we got some more, we found our phone card had expired... d'oh! We went to buy another and eventually - after about an hour we got through and did our best with the hotel. Finally, we could head over to Adventure World.We finally got to the park at about 1.30pm and after having some lunch set off to go on the rides we'd missed last time. We got to go on all the rides - I even went on the spinny ones. We also queued for about an hour to ride on the go-karts which was... pants! I started at the back and had visions of racing up through the pack to take the checkered flag in a blaze of glory, but couldn't have been more wrong. By the time i'd made it out of the pits and across the start line, everyone else was half-way round. In the end my blaze of glory was nothing more than damage limitation, and I finished last - only being lapped by two people, one of which was Nikki... d'oh!
Because of our tattoos, we didn't want to go on any of the water rides until they'd healed so, after riding everything, we just chilled out in the sun. Eventually we decided to head back to the city - first catching a bus to Fremantle, then a train to the city.
This evening, we arranged to go out for some drinks with Andy and Grace - a couple we'd met in Melbourne on the Neighbours night. Me and Nikki went out at about 8.30ish for some food and then met them at just after 9pm in Novaks bar. It was really great to catch up with them and they'd made a real effort, coming in from the outskirts of the city by train - and all this even though we'd only met them once before. We stayed out for a couple of hours, drinking and sharing our traveling stories before saying our goodbyes.
D'oh! I can't believe we're leaving Australia tomorrow!
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Happy New Year.
Thanks very much for the birthday cards and money, I expect Mike will spend it, if he already hasn't, on a t-shirt or a CD.
I suppose you may well be in Bali now .I can't believe how the time has flown since you started to tour Australia-emma appears to have had a good time even though she said it was very hot there.your mum said you were all on gmtv -a lady i work with in tesco said her son was also on tv from perth-hes working over there for 1 year with the option to stay for a few years if he likes it.whats not to like about australia?-have a good time in bali love chris trev & boys.
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