Last week Crazy and I headed off to Darwin.. (wayyyy way up north of Aussie land) To finally visit a good friend of ours we've known since primary school! We had to get this trip done this year as we'd been putting it off since he moved there a few years back.. and because he'll be moving to the UK next year!

Anywho.. here's my little journal entry of the awesome fun times! =D

Wednesday:
Drove up to Sydney and parked the car.. arriving only 10min before checkout closed! We didnt need to wait in line long as all people travelling to Darwin got to go up front! X'D lol then there was some discussion going on about our tickets.. i was worried that they had over booked or something! >.> But turned out our chosen seats were taken (over the wing) and we got moved to the front row priority seating!! =D Woo! So when we go to the gates (that said the plane was off to singapore) we checked it was stopping in Darwin before hand, then got to go on the plane first! ^O^ It wasnt as awesome as I had thought.. not that much more leg room.. and crappy fold up table. And no tv on a 5hr flight!

Arrived in Darwin, found our friend and caught a taxi back to his place. Relaxed for a bit and the headed off to town for some dinner at 'Thailicious' my chose was yummy, but no one else was very happy with the taste of the food. Chilled for a while and then headed back for some sleep!

Thursday:
Caught a bus into town and had a walk about! Darwin reminds me alot like Wagga Wagga.. a nice big town! (but with summer weather in winter!) I LOVE the temperature there in dry season! <3 perfect! Not too hot, but hot enough to go for a swim ^o^ We went past the 'wave pool' which was huge! it looked really nice too! =) Later we found a scooter hire place and enquired about hire prices ^_^

Later on we went to Mindle Beach markets =D I bought a painting of an indian girl with a foxy for crazy ^_^ and myself a tiny ceramic chicken XD

Friday:
We borrowed our friends, german friends car for the day to go to the Territory Wildlife park! We made it in time to see the bird show.. OMG I LOVED it!!! ^O^ Beautiful raptor bird, the Black breasted buzzard was such an awesome entertainer XD and showed us how to break open an emu egg <3 Was SOOOO cute!! I got video =D And the there was the Cocky's both sulpher crested and the black. <3 Lots of lorrikeets..meh.. and another I cant remember what it was called that flew from above, got a fish from the water and ate it up in a tree <3 After that there was a 'meet and greet' with the birds. I LOVED the young wedge *fave* raptor!! ^o^ <3<3 Got a photo with him ^__^ and crazy got a photo with the Roufus Owl ^_^ It was here we found with the black cocky! =D After this Vamero took around the place for a bit until he had to go again. Everything about this wildlife park was awesome, I recommend!! Best one I've been to actually! =D

After that we returned the car and went to hire a scooter (LOL) yes, I think scooters are the lamest things ever, but, our friend has a motorbike so we needed some transport. The cheaper option was to hire a 200cc scooter so that we both could ride around ^__^
We then went out to the Deck Bar for happy hour and had a few drinks! Then had to Taxi off to Hidden Valley to see a drift comp that someone crazy knew was competing in. We arrived just in time to see his first race and enjoyed watching the maddess for the night. On the finals, the dude we went to see was in it and ended up having a small prang with the other competitor, they came back for a rush fi and went back out to duke it. And in the end.. He won! WOO! It was a fun night! ^__^

Saturday:
Went out for a late brekky at Cornicopia, twas nice but pricey >.> then went next door to the free museum! It was GREAT! Couldnt believe it was free! Lots of birdys and lots of dinosaur stuff! And saw a taxidermied Croc called 'sweet heart' XD <3 even a Cyclone Tracey exhibit! ^o^ Awesome!! After that it was off to the Nightcliff foreshore for a looksie about.. very nice place!

Went home for a rest.. although the housemate was having drinks and loud music.. so we went off to the pool to relax =3

And then... it was off to BASS IN THE GRASS!! Ohhh YEHH!! We just missed Dead Letter circus (NUUUU!! :( ) But we saw all the main bands. Art vs Science was definetly the BEST out of them all performance wise... They ROCKED! Next was Birds of Tokyo... I didnt like them too much. Sneaky Sound System was pretty good entertainment.. but i dont fancy the music too much XD And last up was the Presets. We had literally *squeezed* our way to 2nd front row.... but it was nasty smelling, sper sweat fest.. and ew.... Coudnt hear the lyric up that close either! We ended up going back to the center for freash air and enjoy the music much better! We headed off about 2 songs before the end to avoid the crowd rush XD

Went home to change to go out. Taxi'd to Monsoons, but it was PACKED so we went next door to Wisdoms.. I loved that place.. lots of 90's music and not to loud.. good chill out bar! Then we went to Shinanigans for a bit and then wondered off to a place called Throb! This is a very popular bar with entertainment. Famous for being the 'gay bar' as it is "gay friendly" The show we watched was called 'Beyonce vs Gaga' where to tranvestites perform wonderfully a sort of song battle.. it was SOO good and hilarous! I'd go again and again! ^o^ Stayed there until 3.15!!! then.. taxi'd for bed XP

Sunday:
Went to some markets.. not sure which ones though! had some yummy nutella crepes! ^o^ Then after a while we decided to go to the water park! also FREE! And I was all "OMG FREE??" it was an epic water park for being free thats for sure! 3 big waters slides and and epic kids water park thing! FUN! <3
Umm.. can't remember what else we did beside rest this day.. I didnt have it written down! >.>

Monday:
Got up at 5.45am ready to go on an Eco Tour! We were on a small 22 person bus and headed off nice and early. We got about 40mins out of town and had to wait on a late comer to arrive. After another 40mins or so we were off! First stop was at the Adelaide River were we got on the boat for a 'Croc Jumping' cruise! Saw lots and lots of crocs, jumping up for their feed and some we lazy, some were epic. The biggest croc is about 70 years old at 6.4M long! He didnt jump though, they lured him to the bank to show us all how big he was! XD Saw more crocs then on the way back was a Kite feeding frenzy! This was epic and awesome!! <3 Love teh birdys!

Next up was the lunch break at Rum Jungle, then off to the termite mounds at Leitchfield Park. These are very unique 'Magentic' termite mounds only found in this one area in the world! The mounds are flat on 2 sides and skinny in the middle, the skinny ends are perfectly aligned E & W as this make them recieve the least amount of sun during the day to regulate the temperatures inside ^o^ Then we looked at the Cathedral termite mounds, were they are MASSIVE. (if you put your finger near a termite they spray you with enzyme which smells very fruity! XD lol

After this we headed to alot of different walks and waterfalls. Some were still closed for swimming due to possible crocs X'D But we did get to swim at some! =D

Epic awesome day and we headed off back to Darwin.. nice and tired XD

Tuesday:
First up went to the Fish Feeding and fed fishies X'D Had late brekky/ lunch at 'Cold Spot' then cruised around sight seeing for a while. Visited East Point and various other pretty places too! Had to take back the scooter, then walked back to our friends place. Chilled out in the pool for a while then played a giant chess board XD chilled out for a while then went for dinner with the drifting dude and his missus. Later chilled out some more.. Can't really remember atm what else happened! Lol!

Wednesday:

Up early to fly home =( *super sad face*

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All in all the trip was awesome! Loved the beautiful weather... got a nice shock when we got home! (from 30c up there to 10c here X__x ) I would go again for sure, but crazy wasnt much of a fan of the nice weather XD heheh!

I'll do some updating in a few days regarding art/fursuity/life stuff =D

~Vixen