Woke up about 8 am packed up my clothes showered and waited for Sarah's mom to pick me up and bring me to the airport at 10. Sat outside on a chair and it was already 85 degrees (high of 95). She arrives 15 minutes early (you called it Sarah) and dropped me off at the airport.
First time flying quantas air and everything was automated. Printed my boarding pass and my bag tag at a kiosk then went to an automated bag drop where I put my bag on and the machine read the tag and took it away. (Hopefully I did it right and my bags show up in Alice). Then I went searching for food and a chai. Found a breakfast sandwich place and a free internet computer where I sat and searched fr a host in cairns as the original host still hasn't returned with his phone number. Sent about 10 requests, fingers crossed someone is able to host me.
Boarded the plane and got my window seat. Next to I swear an aboriginal. He smelt of BO horribly. And fit the description. And it is a 3 hour flight. Vomit. Basically I breathed into my pillow the entire time.
Arrived to Alice sprigs airport and deplaned on the tarmack and found Jason my host waiting for me at the gate. (To get through security, you just get scanned. There is Noone checking the boarding pass or identification) went to the baggage claim, grabbed my bag (second one off the plane!) and headed the 15km into Alice sprigs. Jason is an army guy stationed here and has to work the night shift tonight. So I was on my own. Stopped by the Alice springs sin and had my picture taken then Dropped off my stuff at his house and he took me atop the war memorial hill overlooking the city (he was right there really isn't much to it). Returned home and be suggested I feed the wallabies and catch dinner at the casino. Sounds good! Gave me a key and dropped me off at the wallabies.
1$ paid for a bag of dietary pellets for the rock wallabies to eat. There was a group of like 5 aboriginal kiddos attempting to feed the wallabies dirt, so I gave them my other dollar coin so they could buy feed. There were female wallabies too with babies in their pouches. They would grab onto you hand while they were eating. Super cute. Slightly sharp claws. After about an hour I decided to walk back towards Jason's house and stop by the casino for dinner. First, I had to walk along the "river" which is a dried up bed filled with sunken aboriginals. Apparently the people of Alice do not like the aboriginals that inhabit Alice as they Are the drunkards that get kicked off the reservations. They just cause problems and scream and swear at white people. Sweet. Here I am a white American girl walking a mile back to Jason's house. Walked past like three different groups (with confidence) and it was fine. Did not make eye contact just walked swiftly away. Phew.
Made it to the casino where I ordered a cider and a kangaroo steak. Have to order it rare to medium (so I did medium rare) with some sort of sauce. Too me my pager and went outside to find somewhere to sit. As it was about 75 degrees outside with a light breeze. Gorgeous. There were two dudes sitting at a tabletop for six, I asked if I could crash their party as I didn't want to take up a whole table to myself. Justin and Jai from Adelaide. They immediately made fun of my accent (however they couldn't hear the Minnesotan in me haha) and we talked the night away. Buzzer went off and I retrieved my kangaroo. Very gamey, similar to venison back home. Jai and justin are roofing contractors hired to fly out to Alice to work on some roofs in the dead of the day. Gross. Jai is also a surfer and began telling me about the different deadly creatures to watch out for. Apparently I have already survived the great white shark area. Alice is known for its snakes, Darwin for the crocs (ha! Not something I was warned about and definitely not on the itinerary) cairns has the deadly spiders--sigh. We also made fun of the Vegemite and then I informed them about couchsurfing. About 10 they offered me a ride home which I great fully accepted so I didn't have to run into any drunk aboriginals. They dropped me off, I did one load of laundry (complete with dryer) set out my stuff for the am and fell asleep.
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First time flying quantas air and everything was automated. Printed my boarding pass and my bag tag at a kiosk then went to an automated bag drop where I put my bag on and the machine read the tag and took it away. (Hopefully I did it right and my bags show up in Alice). Then I went searching for food and a chai. Found a breakfast sandwich place and a free internet computer where I sat and searched fr a host in cairns as the original host still hasn't returned with his phone number. Sent about 10 requests, fingers crossed someone is able to host me.
Boarded the plane and got my window seat. Next to I swear an aboriginal. He smelt of BO horribly. And fit the description. And it is a 3 hour flight. Vomit. Basically I breathed into my pillow the entire time.
Arrived to Alice sprigs airport and deplaned on the tarmack and found Jason my host waiting for me at the gate. (To get through security, you just get scanned. There is Noone checking the boarding pass or identification) went to the baggage claim, grabbed my bag (second one off the plane!) and headed the 15km into Alice sprigs. Jason is an army guy stationed here and has to work the night shift tonight. So I was on my own. Stopped by the Alice springs sin and had my picture taken then Dropped off my stuff at his house and he took me atop the war memorial hill overlooking the city (he was right there really isn't much to it). Returned home and be suggested I feed the wallabies and catch dinner at the casino. Sounds good! Gave me a key and dropped me off at the wallabies.
1$ paid for a bag of dietary pellets for the rock wallabies to eat. There was a group of like 5 aboriginal kiddos attempting to feed the wallabies dirt, so I gave them my other dollar coin so they could buy feed. There were female wallabies too with babies in their pouches. They would grab onto you hand while they were eating. Super cute. Slightly sharp claws. After about an hour I decided to walk back towards Jason's house and stop by the casino for dinner. First, I had to walk along the "river" which is a dried up bed filled with sunken aboriginals. Apparently the people of Alice do not like the aboriginals that inhabit Alice as they Are the drunkards that get kicked off the reservations. They just cause problems and scream and swear at white people. Sweet. Here I am a white American girl walking a mile back to Jason's house. Walked past like three different groups (with confidence) and it was fine. Did not make eye contact just walked swiftly away. Phew.
Made it to the casino where I ordered a cider and a kangaroo steak. Have to order it rare to medium (so I did medium rare) with some sort of sauce. Too me my pager and went outside to find somewhere to sit. As it was about 75 degrees outside with a light breeze. Gorgeous. There were two dudes sitting at a tabletop for six, I asked if I could crash their party as I didn't want to take up a whole table to myself. Justin and Jai from Adelaide. They immediately made fun of my accent (however they couldn't hear the Minnesotan in me haha) and we talked the night away. Buzzer went off and I retrieved my kangaroo. Very gamey, similar to venison back home. Jai and justin are roofing contractors hired to fly out to Alice to work on some roofs in the dead of the day. Gross. Jai is also a surfer and began telling me about the different deadly creatures to watch out for. Apparently I have already survived the great white shark area. Alice is known for its snakes, Darwin for the crocs (ha! Not something I was warned about and definitely not on the itinerary) cairns has the deadly spiders--sigh. We also made fun of the Vegemite and then I informed them about couchsurfing. About 10 they offered me a ride home which I great fully accepted so I didn't have to run into any drunk aboriginals. They dropped me off, I did one load of laundry (complete with dryer) set out my stuff for the am and fell asleep.
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