The holiday from Hell
After 6 months of working a full time job and two part time jobs I was so stressed and depressed , the only thing keeping me going was that I was looking forward to a nice relaxing three week holiday on Australia’s east coast. I planned to stop at a few locations doing activities like canoeing in the Everglades, snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef, visiting Fraser Island which is the largest sand island and then chilling on a yacht for a few days.
I arrived in Surfers Paradise first and saw family over Christmas for a few days then headed up to Noosa Heads and began my two week tour, starting with a three day canoeing safari, after day one there were cyclone warnings and dangerous weather so I had to come back, and did so just in time as the storms really kicked in. The next stop was Fraser Island but the cyclones got worse so the whole island had to be evacuated. Who goes to Fraser Island and it gets evacuated in summer? Talk about unlucky.
And so the saga continued, the storm was just as bad in the other places I planned to visit so I had to cancel my trip. I headed back down to Brisbane and found out that my work hadn’t paid me, this was on New Years Eve. I also had no where to stay and everywhere was fully booked but had no money to stay anywhere either. Finally I found a hostel that would put me up but was a sleep before midnight so missed the whole of the New Year celebrations.
My boyfriend then got hit by a car and broke a few bones and surprise surprise, the cyclones were still following me. Meanwhile back in my home town its sunny and 40 degrees while I’m stuck with torrential rain and cyclones, oh what a joy!
In the end I gave up and took a 30 hour train ride (non stop!) as I couldn’t afford to fly and had to survive on peanut butter sandwiches for three days and arrived back in Melbourne a day before I had to go back to work, ending up more stressed and depressed than I was before I left!
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