What Cairns you do about it?

Doncha love my creative titles these days??

It's so people remember that Cairns is pronounced "Cans" not "Carns".. so know ya know!

Ok so my blogs haven't been the greatest the past couple days.. sorry.. let me make it up to you!!

So I forgot to mention the whole reason we were out in Cairns last night. We wanted some F'in McDonalds.. haha.. we were so tired of the disgusting food out in the outback that we only wanted McDonalds when we got here. So after putting all of our things away we asked the concierge where the closest one was.

He got really upset with us for only coming to Cairns to eat Mackers!! We let him know that we were truly here to dive, and I think it made him feel better. So he showed us the way!

After our Mackers, trip to the dive shop and 24 hour medical center (for physicals.. not cuz we were hurt!!), we decided to take the "scenic" route home.. a little path that goes by the ocean. We were walking along enjoying the view until the path came to a stop. We started to look around and realized that we had no idea where we were. We thought this one place was our hotel.. but it wasn't. We were in a parking lot surrounded by 4 different hotels.. none of which had their name on it.. trying to decide which was ours.

We finally picked one and went in that direction only to realize that it wasn't ours. Then.. we saw the Mackers.. and knew exactly where we were.. we knew at that point that none of the 4 hotels we saw were actually ours... but now.. because of our taste for Mackers, we knew how to get home!

On the way home we had to walk over this gutter thing.. I made sure that Brian didn't step in it and get eaten by a deadly Croc... long story.. (in a nutshell.. there are lots of crocs in waterways here.. and there was a bit of water in the gutter.. it was you had to be there kind of thing..)

So we made it "home" safe and sound.. and headed for bed.

Today.. we woke up and got ready to go see the Koala named Harvey. We got to hold Harvey and get our picture taken with him. He was so soft! He is winking in my picture... can't wait to show you!!

After Harvey we went back to the dive shop to get fit into our things. Then we went around looking for some souviners (I know there is a g in that word but I can't ever remember where!) I tell you Renae.. I'm looking so hard at finding something French for you.. but I can't seem to find ANYTHING I can actually bring back with me. I am taking pictures of the french things.. so no worries!!

Then it was back to the hotel for a lazy afternoon as there seems to be nothing to do here in Cairns except dive.. which is TOMORROW!!!

Tonight though I am pretty excited. We are going to the Cairns Night Zoo, in which we will go around the zoo with a "torch" (or flashlight.. at first I thought we were going to have a real fire torch.. until I realized they call flashlights torches here.. it would be way cooler if I had a real torch..) But most of Australia's animals are nocturnal.. so its better to see them at night! Then after the torching around the zoo.. we will have some shrimp on the Barbie, or just some plain ol bbq while being surrounded by kangaroos that we can touch and feed!! Hopefully we wont feed them bbq...

After dinner its lots of drinking (I'm beginning to think Australians are alcoholics!) and dancing to a Bush Band.. I'll let you know how that turns out!

This will probably be my last post until I get back from my SCUBA trip on Saturday for me.. Friday for most of you.. But I am journaling every event in my handy journal Jacquelyn gave me for my birthday (shout out to you cuz its been a blessing!! I have everything in order thanks to the pouches!) and I will make sure to update you on EVERYTHING as soon as I can!!

Miss you mucho!