DAY 1 BABY

Nothing much interesting happened on the plane rides, I got to start to know some people and there was a little turbulence that made me nervous but I survived. On the flight to New Zealand from LA I had a conversation with a banker from Australia sitting next to for about 30 mins about healthcare and much to my surprise he actually was all for it. That’s one of my many missions for this trip is to find out as much as I can about different good and bad aspects of “Universal” healthcare. From the way he was talking it sounds like they have a much better system here than they do in Scotland or Canada, but that’s another topic that this blog will not concern itself with. But 37 hours later we arrive in Australia!!!!

Let me just say this is probably the coolest place I have ever been to in my life. The wildlife here is just phenomenal. The calls that some of the birds here have are absolutely nuts. The beach that we have here has some of the craziest waves that I have ever seen as well. They are perfect for surfing wake boarding. OK but anyway I am getting side tracked again, try and stay focused.

But anyway after we got off the plane and got into our charter bus and I started to get incredibly excited. I was also exhausted and slept through most of the two hour bus ride. We got to our camp, and let me just say, this place is kickin. We have a pool, a lake, tennis course, high ropes course, indoor gym, a field, archery range, rock wall, weight room, and not to mention being about 100 yards away from the ocean. But we all got settled in to our cabins and explored the campgrounds. Once settled in we walked around the town (Lennox Head) and had a guided tour of it from our TA Kurtis Moss. Lennox Head is a neat little town that has an amazing rock face overlooking the ocean called the head. It is also home to the number 7 surfing spot in the world (huge waves I’ve seen them). After a couple hours of exploring we came back and had a tasty barbeque provided by some of the owners of the camp. After that we all went back to our cabins and called it a night and rested from our exhausting journey. OHHH I almost forgot, within the first couple of hours of being here, I was attacked by a bird. In the middle of our field there was the yellow faced bird sitting on its eggs and I got a little to close to it and it started flying at me, there is a video and its great. But that was day one.