Trying to Catch up...

So Colleen has been doing such a great job with photos that I've been holding onto mine. I decided to finally post some... here they are:

Brisbane Australia

We leave tomorrow morning and start heading toward Cairns and our 3 day boating trip. Hopefully we'll have no problem handling our manual-right-hand-drive camping van. Wish us luck.

-Luis

new pics and stuff

i uploaded new pics today and changed the format around a little so use these new links below

pics
los angeles
brisbane, queensland
lone pine koala danctuary
colleen's stupid "artsy" pics (as luis puts it)

we stayed in a hostel for a few days. it was pretty nice considering what i had in my mind. i think the US has a major stigma against hostels but it was cool. we went on the XXXX brewery tour which was quite informative and interesting. we learned about the history of beer in general and that in queensland. "mind your p's and q's" comes from when the bar owner would yell at the barmaids to mind their pints and quarts (i.e. keep tabs). the beer was pretty good as well (they give you four at the end).

i've spent a lot of time walking around brisbane and seeing different parts of the city. they have a lot of parks and beautiful gardens which are all free to visit. the mass transportation is awesome! the city is pretty clean and there are a lot of strange birds everywhere. yesterday we went to the maritime naval museam and went on an old world war II ship. i got some really awesome pictures!

this weekend we are trying to find somewhere to celebrate halloween. monday we set out for airlie beach and the sailing trip. i can't wait!

mcdonalds and drinking

is it appropriate or not to eat at mcdonalds in every country possible after drinking? tonight after going on the XXXX brewery tour in brisbane and having a few beers luis made me go to mcdonalds with him. he claims to never eat at mcdonalds in the US but always eat at mcdonalds in any other country he is in. he ate his food in about 4.5 seconds and then proceeded to run (that's right run...his legs are quite a bit longer than mine) back to the hostel and go to bed at 7:30. i don't know which is worse.....the drunken mcdonalds run or the going to bed at 7:30. i certainly hope he finds a way to stay awake past 8:00 for some part of this trip.

p.s. on the brewery tour tonight some brits and a swed taught us about the term "bunny boiler"....who knew? i think we probably should have.

Colleen = liar face.

Hello all,

The quotes are completely untrue. I would never say these things. That is all.

-Luis

Oh yeah, we are currently in Brisbane AUS. We'll be posting some pics soon........

pictures added:
LA and Brisbane pics
Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary pics

quotes of the week

everyone who knows luis knows that ridiculous things come out of his mouth about every 37 seconds. so every week i am going to post luis' ridiculous and funny quotes for everyone's amusement. enjoy!

this week so far:
"can i use that hand sanitizer anywhere?"

"i was born 7 months premature, they thought i was an abortion and tried to flush me"

"i am going to have my halloween costume be just underwear and dance with all the ladies and maybe i'll meet my australian cousin"

"i love coca cola, can you imagine if you were 70 and coke was just invented, how much would that suck? if coke had been invented back in the day it would have been too easy to steal from the indians"

"i can't wait until my parents have alzheimer's so i can punch them in the face every day and they won't remember"

brisbane!

we are in brisbane!! the flights weren't too bad actually when it was all said and done. customs is pretty crazy...good thing luis left the machete at home this time.

so far brisbane seems like any other large city in the world. the main difference is the sub tropical weather so there are a lot of palm trees and other trees i've never seen before. there is some old architecture (1800's) mixed in with a lot of new. we've done some exploring so far. we stumbled across some really old fig trees that were awesome! the weather is quite warm which i am enjoying immensely! today i think we are going to go to the lone pine koala sanctuary to hold koalas and feed kangaroos. =)

p.s. we did make it on jay leno the other night. my aunt took pics and tagged me on facebook! =)

the blog

luis and i are heading to australia (i'm going for a few weeks and luis....well he's undecided as usual) so we decided to do a blog....why not? we'll post when we can and load pictures and what not. feel free to leave comments and email us. =)

today luis and i leave LA and head off to brisbane. we have about 15 hours of flying with a flight to nadi, fiji, a couple hour layover and then a couple hours over to brisbane. hopefully we don't kill each other on the flight. this is only the start of the trip.

we've spent a few days in LA seeing the sites and trying to get some good sleep before the flight. yesterday we went to venice beach to see the ocean and the street vendors/performers. we rented bikes and rode down to the santa monica pier. some strange guy followed us for a little bit listening to our fascinating conversation then luis went all crazy on him so he left. we watched a guy jump and walk on glass. those are about the highlights so far. we're trying to get on the jay leno show today.

more to come.....