BS - Beans and Snags

No class on Thursdays usually means its our adventure day, but we had decided to take things more casual today. There wasn’t much of a big adventure today because we had a bunch of ground to cover from putting things off throughout the week. We did venture off to Hyde Park first thing in the morning, something that Lauren has wanted to do for a while. However, we did forget the camera to capture the reflection pool and Anzac Memorial but I know we’ll be back there soon. One of the highlights about Hyde Park was feeding the pigeons our leftover chips, one of them decided to be brave and eat a piece off my shoe. I had wisely put a piece next to Lauren on the bench in hopes that a pigeon would jump up there and scare her, that didn’t happen. We also witnessed a runner trying to get some water out of a water fountain and seriously getting sprayed in the face like Lauren almost did at Maroubra Beach! This was hilarious, and we even managed to stifle our laughs before he walked away. We knew that we had to get a move on since the afternoon was slipping away and we still had to make a trip to Kings Cross to pick up a bolt for the scooter that Lauren lost on the first day that we had it. I have no comment on that one. In the hardware store we basically dissembled our scooter right there in the middle of the aisle in order to find the right size bolt and washer. We were successful and I feel a lot better about us riding it now. Spring Break is starting to creep up on us quickly and we still hadn’t finalized our plans yet so it was off to a different traveling agency to see if they could quote us a better price. First we wanted to stop at the apartment to reheat some spaghetti from yesterday but when we arrived everyone was outside the building informing us that there was a fire inside. At first we were worried that it might be our converter/charger since we accidentally left it in the wall and it tends to smell burnt after a while. However, we didn’t see any of the roommates outside yelling at us so we figured we were safe. Once the fire trucks got there we figured we might as well head out since it might be a while, considering the firemen weren’t even in a hurry but were actually asking the residents if they had seen smoke. I thought it was their job to find out where the fire was… Lauren says sorry to her dad for that comment. Although we didn’t want to leave since we were right next to this adorable chocolate poodle named Teacup, or so Lauren thinks. I think that the lady said his name was nincom-poodle. Either way it reminded me of how cute and small Hershey used to be. So we were off to the university area again to stop at student flights. We met with a nice girl named Marilyn who told us about the same Fiji package that the other travel agent had told us about. She also quoted us for an airline ticket that was way more expensive than we cared to buy but they have to make money somehow. We left, reassuring her that we’d be back in about an hour with our decision. We bee lined it to the library to buy our own plane tickets for about half the price. That was when Lauren remembered that we were supposed to be downtown at 6 PM for a soccer referee information session. This meant that we had to rush back to Marilyn in hopes that she could hold our booking for tomorrow. Unfortunately she couldn’t but she didn’t see it filling up overnight so once again we reassured her that we’d be back. We made it downtown just in the nick of time and actually ended up waiting for the presenter to get there. We were supposed to meet at Pie Face which is a restaurant here so we thought that was a little weird, but turns out the guy actually works right across the street so it made sense. The information session itself was only about 20 minutes long and then immediately the guy went into interviewing us since there were only three people. The other guy was able to go first which we were thankful for since we wanted to talk to each other about the opportunity beforehand. In the end we decided that it wasn’t going to work in our best interest for a few reasons. 1. It goes all the way to October, meaning we’d only be there half the season. 2. We’d have to purchase uniforms which amounted to $110 dollars. 3. All the games are on Saturdays and that would really hinder our travelling once our 8 week classes are done. It would have been a really cool experience though and the pay wasn’t too bad but we wouldn’t see that money until October so it just didn’t seem like a good use of our time and money right now. We thanked the guy anyways for the opportunity. It was around 7 PM which meant dinner time so we sped down George Street on our scooter and bike en route to Coles. Our dinner menu consisted of baked beans and snags (sausages) which I have been wanting to eat for quite some time now. I was actually surprised that Lauren agreed to this dinner since she doesn’t eat hot dogs, but I think she likes snags a little bit better. We both ate more than our bellies wanted us to, but they were very delicious. It may be the first time that we have stuffed ourselves since we’ve been here.