Byron Bay or Bust

From the moment I bought my first Lonely Planet Australia book and started reading, Byron Bay has been the place I've wanted to visit. Finally after 7 months of being stuck in Melbourne, I got to see Byron Bay. 

*watching sunset on the beach

We've had one hiccup after another and have been constantly delayed...blown engine, savings, broken 4-person bike (story to come) and all of the fixes we needed to do to the van in Eden to make it pass rego which we thought was end of Sept but it was actually Sept 1st. After all that, we only got to stay for a few nights in Byron but had a really great time checking out the city on our roller skates. We were going to go swimming too but the beaches were closed due to someone getting attacked by a shark -   first death in 21 years, I believe.

Last night we took advantage of a backpackers promo night which are thrown by each backpacker travel agency a different night weekly to try and encourage travellers to book their excursions through them. We got free drinks, dinner and competitions for trips and prizes at a bar called Cheeky Monkey - which we also did the night prior from another agency. It's a cute pub full of other travellers - many of which were fellow Canadians. Last night they had free face painting before 10, so you know I was all over that....

*******OHHH LIVE ACTION....

SPEAKING OF HICCUPS, WE ARE NOW PULLED OVER WITH SOME UNKNOWN PROBLEM 30 MIN SOUTH OF BYRON. 

F%#$ S#!@ B@¥&$!!!!!  

That my folks, has been the recurring theme of the last 7 months. 

Hopefully it's minor...

Luckily it was just a tire. At first it felt like rear end but it wasn't. Phewf. 

$100 fix.

Sooooo back to the story...

So yes, I got my face painted - which looked purdy, but then none of the girls joined me so I just looked like a dork by myself. Trav being a trooper decided humour me so I wasn't the only one. While getting it done, the girl doing it kept rubbing herself on his knee (which I'm sure he didn't mind). Lol. He ended up looking like Avatar - but covered in glitter. We called it 'Avatar meets Twilight' and when I say covered, I mean COVERED. She dumped some into her hand, looked at it, then trav, added more then blew them right in the face. The best part is, Brian HATES glitter so we had lots of fun taunting him and threatening to hug him all night. I rarely see Brian get mad but he was pretty cranky.

Anyway, next thing we know, we are white girl wasted and Emma is doing a goon shot from a dude named James' belly button in the van. Trav has blown up another goon bag to get every last drop, and somehow ended up breaking my sandal. I ended up throwing it at him from a decent distance and hit the blown up goon bag causing it to burst in his face (hmmm there seems to be a recurring theme here lol)....

We end up out dancing at Woodys Surf Shack for a bit - which is neat because the owner is from Barriere and his sister taught travs niece??? Something like that...

When we finally get back to camp, Emma is a total effing handful - so much so that she accidentally posts a vagina pic as her FB status instead of PMing it to 'G'. Oops. She only realized it when she got a concerned phone call from her friend Lisa.

We ended up going to bed without washing our faces and this is what was staring me in the face when I woke up and looked in the mirror...worst part is, it stained my skin so now I'm a nice shade of pink.

We are now back on the road to Coffs Harbour are volunteering for a WRC Rally for a few days which is super cool. After we plan on going back to Byron for a few days before we head up the coast because it's just that unique and beautiful - think Nelson, BC on the ocean. Perhaps after we tour around a bit more we may come back and try and get jobs there. I could seriously stay forever if I was allowed. 

Well that's all the bad grammar I can cram in for one day.

If you're actually reading this than you probably have to much free time on your hands and should probably look at getting a hobby or something of that nature. 

Love love

~F