O'Reillys!

it was gonna be a nice peaceful sunday (11 apr) at home, and i was about to go to westfield to shop on my own for stuff like my formal attire just in case i had to attend an interview for U21, and i also had to collect the photos that zj had developed the previous day. and like probably about 20 mins before i was gonna leave i received a call from wayne. and he was like oh hey do you guys wanna go to o'reillys today? and i'm like "WHY SO LAST MINUTE AH?!!?!?!" and he was at nathan's place and they just had that brainwave to go up there apparently. so i had to like ask zj if she wanted to go and all that.. and for some reason somehow she mistook it for a haunted house lol. basically zj was taking a long time to deliberate whether or not she wanted to go..and i was like on the phone with them and then like i looked at the clock and i'm like GAHHHHH I'M GONNA MISS THE BUS!!!! and if i missed the bus i'd have to wait like maybe one or 2 hours for the next bus. so anyway i left the house and continued discussing on the phone with zj..and she finally said that we could go ..so i called wayne back and he'd pick zj from the house and me from westfield.

i collected my fotos..and then was at target shopping...and then i just happened to be on the phone with wayne about the arrangements for later..and i didn't notice what i was doing..so i just left the photos on some shelf, and then when i put down the phone, i forgot that i left the photos on the shelf.. and then i was like OH CRAP and the problem was that i couldn't remember which shelf i left it on, and i had to go scour many rows of shelves, including the kids toys section to find it..i think all the parents were probably looking at me and thinking what on earth this weird girl was doing looking so intently at the kids shelves. i bumped into tracey too while shopping at target.

okay so anyway i got picked up at about 12..and we went up o'reillys past this mountain called mt nathan which gave nathan a big head cause it was as if he owned everything..and everything that was on that nathan was named nathan something or mt nathan something. and whenever we passed by any old shack that looked just about to fall apart we'd go..hey there's your new house wayne!!! haha.

so after many winding winding roads that was just about to make zj sick, wayne decided to let us down at a spot to like rest. and was this alpaca farm..which had alpacas and i'd never seen alpacas before. they look like llamas but i think their face is rather comical haha. and we went into the shop and felt all the alpaca wool products which were all very nice and wooly and felt like they'd all be nice and comfortable. haha. they had wonderful views from there as well.

when we finally got to o'reillys we had lunch..the choice of food there was rather paltry and quite expensive so all 4 of us ended up eating lasagne...nathan got his chocolate banana milkshake which looked interesting and quite pretty. at first the sound of it sounded weird and like ewww. but it actually tasted quite nice. but we weren't about to let nathan know that cause he said we could kill him if we didn't like it. lols. we sat on some sort of veranda of the cafe, where you could see the rolling hills below you, and it was rather cooling cos we were on the top of a mountain. and we saw like electrical lines that lead all the way down from the cafe.. and wayne was like oh that's gotta be one of the longest electrical lines ever. haha.

we went on a short little walk after lunch where they had a suspended bridge. before reaching the bridge we got to this tree, which was a dead tree that had been killed by a strangler fig. so the inside of the tree was completely hollow, with only the outer shell of the tree which was all vine-y and brambly. all of us had to wait our turn, when it was my turn i tried climbing up the inside of the tree. wayne was last and he climbed the highest. and the 3 of us were outside saying..okok when he's up there we're all gonna bail on him lol. and we did. :)

we reached the end of one section of the bridge and then there was this ladder up to 2 platforms, one higher than the other. only 5 people could be up there at one time, so we had to wait in line for our turn to go up. when we went up, it was a bit scary climbing up the ladder (and even scarier climbing down lol). but the view was pretty :)

after that we went on the bridge with nathan and wayne trying to make the bridge as shaky as possible. wayne was really funny cos he was skipping along the bridge like a little girl. lol. we tried to take fotos because at that time we felt it was probably one of our last chances to get a proper foto with them that we could print out for them as gifts, and wayne had to give a spastic non-smiling face when both zj and i looked nice in it pffft.

after that we headed back to the wild bird feeding area wanting to feed the birds but we discovered that feeding time was over. so nathan went and just grabbed a rock and held it out as if it were food. and a bird actually flew to him!! and we were like wowww this works and we all started scouring for random crap on the ground to hold in our hands. haha. eventually we all had birds on our arms at some point or another. it would have been cooler though if it were real food, maybe more birds would have come.

after that we headed down to the wishing tree track, a small little trail that not many people know of..we saw a few wallabies on the way too. this track was rather cool, it had a really really shaky bridge which nathan rocked SO HARD that i thought it was going to break. when i entered the trail, nathan gave me a scare and i got a fright and actually for once i did give a little squeal. nathan took great pride in that. after that wayne went missing and we knew he was hiding somewhere but we didn't know where so when he jumped out at us from behind a huge rock zj got the fright of her life and screamed lol. there was also this natural swing made from a vine that everyone had fun swinging on except me. haha. when i got up for some reason i can't grip properly or stand properly or balance properly, whenever wayne and nathan tried swinging me forward i wouldn't be able to balance on it and i'd fall down. i twisted my ankle in the process and that night it hurt so badly i had to RICE it. haha. on the way back nathan kept trying to block my way with vines and i was like really tired and panting and all that and wayne was like you look really really tired and i'm like yeah this is wayyyy worse compared to springbrook because NATHAN IS HERE! in the end nathan offered to piggyback me a distance..so that he can use his energy. ahah. and he piggybacked zhujun too! piggybacking both of us and running took up quite some bit of his energy. haha...

at the end of the day for some reason nathan and i were playing with water near wayne's car trying to splash each other with water and i wet wayne's whole windscreen with water lol. yes a waste of nice good drinking water. we had noodlebox for the first time in aust that night for dinner... and went to this place in pacfic pines to have it, while we played the A-Z game for animals and countries and nathan kept on naming weird dinosaurs we'd never heard before. after dinner, i played on the flying fox, and nathan dragged me sooooo far that i was nearing the end at like TOP SPEED and i was like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO and the next moment i hit the end and i flew up like some rag doll together with the flying fox seat (thank God i was sitting on it and not standing, i'd have flown a few metres away if i were standing) and both zj and wayne who were watching got a huge shock and wayne scolded nathan after that. haha. i told them after that that i honestly felt like i was on a roller coaster right then..don't even needa go to theme parks. haha.

yep so ended the long day at o'reillys haha. such a longggg entry i'm sleepy writing it too lol