Stress, relaxation and luxury (16.10.08)

We came back home around 4.30 am after having spent 18 hours at school doing our assignment, where the last 10 hours was spent without food. We were quite tired, as you might have seen by the previous blogpost. We went to sleep, and woke up again 11 am. I went to the post office at Mt Gravatt Plaza and sent home a 7 kilo package with stuff. It was quite fascinating as it had around 60 stamps on it, and it cost a small fortune. Hanne was a good girl and did laundry.

While we were busy doing our minor assignment (rather stressed out), we got the notice that we would have to deliver our suitcases (the big ones) to Earle Bridger's office at QCA on friday. We are not bringing those with us to Bourke or Japan (luckily), so QCA will store them for us while we are gone. We suddenly realized, after the joy of being done with our assignment had been slightly removed, that we had just half a day to pack all our stuff into the suitcase. This may sound like an abundance of time, but our room looks like someone's put a bomb in there. Also, since we will be without our suitcases for like 3 weeks, we had to plan out what we would need for the next days here in Brisbane, then the trip to Bourke, the trip to Japan and the trip to Cairns. We also had to do some laundry. As we had originally planned to go to Garden City and get some food and then see a movie, we stressed about packing. After we felt we were done with the packing (our room still looked like a mess though), we went to Garden City. We like Garden City. You can get anything there, including sliced beef & creamy baked potatoes from Bucking Beef. We like beef.

We did a liiiiittle bit of shopping, before going all happy again. We had bought tickets for Burn After Reading on GOLD CLASS to celebrate being done with our assignment. We paid a small fortune here as well, but I thought it was certainly worth it. We had to show up thirty minutes before the film started, and we went into the Gold Class Lounge. We sat in a sofa, looking through the menu of what we could order. On Gold Class, you sit in extremely comfy reclining chairs, only 4 chairs in a row, and around 6 rows in total. There's a bar outside, where you can order food and drinks to be served you during the movie at any time you wish. I was quite hungry, so I ordered nachos and diet coke to be served during the movie. It was a great experience, and very luxurious and extremely comfy. I thought the movie was quite alright, it was even funny at the end. I'm not so sure if Hanne agrees though.

We managed to safely avoid possums, bats, birds, lizards etc on our way home by taking a maxitaxi. Our egoes apparently needed a lot of space after the luxurious evening.