Brooks and Dunn to Coogee Days

Hello!!

okay so last i checked i haven't written since we went to brooks and dunn!! yes, we were able to find country in australia. very few people knew what we were talking about when we said we were going to see them in concert but we didn't really care. kaitlin and i bought tickets with our tour guide from spring break-meggo. we had bought nose bleeds but didn't really care, we were just excited to go. we caught the train to the city around 4 and headed to meet meggo for happy hour and dinner. when we got there... he told us that if we were interested, one of his friends that was going said we could go with him. thinking this would be fun, we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. turns out his friend let us ride in his party bus to the concert and then sit in his box seats!!!! free food and drinks all night long- plus we sold our tickets so we even made some money. needless to say, we were extremely grateful and soooo excited. i couldn't believe what was happening. we met meggos friends- who were awesome- and got to see an amazing concert in awesome seats. although we were probably the loudest in the box seats, we tried to get other people excited. this didn't go so well so we just danced around by ourselves and cheered like crazy for all our favorite songs. afterwards, we sang all the way back in the party bus and tried to go to the casino- but decided against it and just went home.

thursday i had to go to a psych study and spent the rest of the day in the library working on my drugs paper. it was a painful experience. still not accomplishing much i gave up and kaitlin, marie and i watched grey's anatomy and went to bed early. luckily for us, although australia is like a couple months behind in grey's anatomy, we have missed so much of it and been here so long, we are finally catching up!! we are excited about that to say the least.

friday- kaitlin and i hit the library again... allll day long. from 10 -5 we sat, chugging coffee, and plugging away on papers and assignments. after finally finishing my paper i got extra editing help from margaret and my dad and ended up feeling pretty good about it. friday night we stayed in as well and went to bed early after crashing from our caffeine highs.

saturday- we went to ladies day at university of new south whales (UNSW) rugby day!! it was a goregous day out and meggo (our tour guide) was actually playing. so we went at noon and watched him play rugby, drank our free champagne, and kaitlin and marie even got their palms read!! i wanted to but the lady ran out of time. so that was a bums. but a bunch of our friends from spring break were there so that was a lot of fun to see them and catch up. after three games of rugby, the team provided a free shuttle to this hotel where they were having an after party. it was pretty fun but we ended up calling it a pretty early night after being down there all day and in the sun we were ready for bed. we got back to the village about 11 and hit the hay.

sunday it was back to studying and such. the rest of this week was full of days at the library and nights hnging around. getting to the end of the semester is really taking its toll on all of us to get all our assignments in and keep up with school. especially now, since all our friends are done and we are not used to be in school till late june. however, we are continuing to plug through. the end is in sight for me. i have 2 more papers to write- one due friday that i will be dedicated to this week- and then two finals in late june, and then i am done. it is a bittersweet feeling knowing it is all coming to an end. although we still have over a month let, i don't think it will feel that long at all- kinda scary.

although there was a lot of studying this week- we still managed to make time for fun. marie and i decided to head to the city thursday to do a little exploring since it had been a while. we went to paddys market (this ultimate souvenier place) and bought some tshirts and aussy stuff. we bebopped around and saw where my mom and teresa will be staying while they are here!! we also realized that it was darling harbour's 21st birthday and the city had a huge cake on display and were doing fireworks later that night. so that was fun to see. thursday night we caught greys anatomy again and then went to the ubar for pirate night- although none of us dressed as pirates. it was a pretty fun time.

friday we needed a beach day. morgan had been kind enough to say she would drive when she got done with class at noon. so her, kaitlin, marie and i headed off to bondi beach around 12:30! this was our first time to bondi and i am honestly so sad we didn't go sooner. i thought i loved manly... but bondi is goregous!! it is such pretty sand and a beautiful beach. erin and jill and some other parkland folks showed up and we all beached bummed for the rest of the day. we saw another guide from our spring break trip- who is a bondi lifeguard- and caught up with him for a little. once it got a little colder, marie, kaitlin, morgan, and i headed off the beach and up to the little shops. we got some lunch/dinner and found some cute shops. heading back towards campus- marie, kaitlin and i were so happy to be in a car. it is so weird to always be on public transportation for so long we were so grateful to be in morgan's car for a change. it was fast and fun to be driving around with the windows down, blaring girly music, and enjoying sydney. once back, kaitlin and i tried to think of more things to do with our family and then called it a night.

yesterday we went to coogee beach for another reunion with our spring break folks!! it was a beautiful day and coogee is a smaller beach close to bondi that is just as pretty and fun. it was fun to hang around on the beach all day again and see our tour guides and spring break buds. we saw where they live- goregous views- and got dinner down there. we were debating about going out down there but due to the lack of nicer clothes, we headed back to macquarie and went to bed. it was a great day and would have been fun to go out but just wasn't really possible.

today i have been in the library getting not much done. i am supposed to be working on this china in world history paper but just really don't want to. so, i thought i would catch you all up instead. this week we will be mostly plugging away at school. thursday there is an end of the semester party- sad that it is the end- and the rest of the time just occupying our time with probably school and the beach. although it is colder now, we still suck it up and head to the beach at 75 degrees. it is then less crowded and just as much fun.

hope everyone is well. miss you all!

cheers mates :)