Home Sweet Home

This would be the day that we finally arrived at our home for the next four months! We had all been anticipating this for a very long time and we tired of living out of our suitcases. We flew into Brisbane and took a bus to the Gold Coast, one bus filled with people living on campus and the other with people living in beach housing. We drove down the Gold Coast Highway and passed by bunches of tall buildings until we finally saw Meriton written on top of a tall blue and black brand new apartment building. The base floor of our building has a bunch of restaurants, a spa and a crucial 24 hours 7-11 (opening soon). Everyone from the bus got more and more excited as we unpacked our luggage and Matt gave us our rooms and keys. Room 1608 would be our home for the next four months.
We took the elevator to the 16th floor and opened the door to a brand new apartment with granite counters, sofa and chairs, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and one very nice flat screen T.V. hung up on the wall. How nice of the Meriton to give us all this. We flipped a coin for the bigger bedroom, tails – good, and checked out every crevice in the apartment. We have a balcony facing inland with heaps of mountains in the distance, a shopping mall two blocks to the left, a huge casino directly across the street, a convention center one block to the right and downtown Broadbeach across from the convention center. WOW. I could not ask for anything better. Maybe a bigger bed actually, but I barely sleep as it is so who cares.
The four of us living together walked to the downtown area and ate at some Italian restaurant that was very good. After we ate, we walked around and explored the downtown/beach and picked up some necessities for our kitchen. Then, we walked to the beach. The white sand is so soft and the waves are like nothing I have ever seen before. Paul is a big time surfer and explained to me that the Gold Coast is one of the most famous places in the world for surfing and that only a few places have waves as good as these in the world! After our stroll on the beach, we walked the one block inland to our apartment and tried to take in everything that was going on. We took the night easy, and hung out in our apartment and went to bed at a semi-decent hour.

When we woke up the next day we started running errands for things we needed to make our apartment a home. Target and a grocery store pretty much had everything we needed and lucky for us they are both one block to the left. After our errands, Sahill and I went for a walk to a Muay Thai/MMA gym a few blocks past Target to check it out. On the way back we stopped by a surf shop to look into buying a board and take lessons. The day before we had walked by a piercing shop and Craig-alicious said that he wanted his nipple pierced. So today we went there to watch him get it done. Hilarious indeed. After almost passing out, turning white as a ghost, and sweating a gallon he had a piece of metal going through his left nippy.
At night we took a bus to campus where we met up with some friends living on campus. Then we all walked to the bar on campus, yeah there is a pretty nice and big bar on campus. At midnight a few buses took everyone to this bar called The Drink. It was pretty crowded and crazy, fun fun fun.