Sept 25 - Shopping and Flying Foxes

Cooked up some egg, ham and cheese bunwiches for breakfast today on the flat grill they have here. Brought me back to cooking at the Patio Cafe, and it was an excellent way to start a day. It's cloudy today, so me and B walked over to the mega-sized mall here and wandered around for a couple hours and I picked up a new pair of shorts from the Ripcurl shop.

On the way to shopping, we went through a forest trail and heard a bunch of weird bird noises (which is fairly common for Australia) but this was more screechy, very odd indeed. Looked up and saw why, there were hundreds of huge flying foxes perched in the trees here. Flying foxes are huge bats. Creeped me right out. There were some flying around, with most curled up hanging upside down from branches. Read some info signs and apparently this is a Flying Fox sanctuary and at night thousands can be seen flying in that area of the forest next to the river.

After shopping we walked over to the casino to check it out. Got ID'd by a very dickish security guard at the doors, then tried to find a roulette table to blow some money at. They didn't have any real ones going tho, so I had to settle for a video one with little terminals around it. I tossed in a 20 and won a couple rounds, but my bets were only a couple bucks each time. Then B said to pick a number instead of just a colour, so I threw a bunch on red 7. But I looked at the screen and saw it had come up about 10 rounds before, so I cancelled it and just went red. And what comes up, but red 7. Then came a string of red when I was going with black and there went the rest of my money. It was a decent way to spend a few minutes for entertainment.

Tonight we purchased a pub crawl pass that includes 2 beer and a bbq at the hostel, then entry and one drink at 4 clubs tonight. For $30 it seems like a bargain. Went to 4 stereotypical nightclubs and got a free drink at each, so that was alright. Heard the same songs at each one, and if I hear LMFAO - Shots or Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling much more, I'm going to lose my mind. Lots of dudes at every place, like a 3 to 1 dude to girl ratio. Highlight of the night was probably the lamb kabob at the end and the warm walk back to the hostel.