DA SEAWEED IS ALWAYS GREENER...

LINUS AND I went on a mini-epic-roadtrip today. He came by at 12 and we went up to Mooloolaba to see the fake dinos at Underwater World. Hilarity and tragedy ensued.

Firstly the trip up to Mooloolaba takes a good hour and a half from my house, but being us, it took more like 3 hours! We got lost along the way, and had to stop for lunch as well. It's actually really difficult to get from the GC motorway to the SC motorway, who woulda thought! They built this like big city thing in the middle of the path! CRAZY!

Anyway we finally arrived at UW just a bit past 3, and went through pretty quickly cuz we didn't really care THAT much. The fish were pretty cool. You can't see very well, but there was this car made into a fish-tank! It was cool! There was also an Axolotyl which was a 'flamboyant' salamander, so we personified him as this gay hispanic salamander defending his lifestyle and trash talking the other amphibians. It was funny. To us. Because. We. Are. Dumb.

And we went in the tunnel, which for those of you who don't know is actually a tunnel which goes through the middle of the aquarium, which is actually pretty cool. The fish and sharks and rays and stuff swim above you and all around you. Which is pretty awesome when you think about it.

And then we saw the awesomely pathetic fake dinosaurs! They were pretty cool. Except the dinosaurs teeth were soft rubber and squishy so it kind of broke the fourth wall a bit or whatever. Crushed the dream. I tell ya, if and when there really is a for-real Jurassic Park, I am so there! Like, for serious! Anyway the dinos were pretty cool. And actually pretty good with the scientific accuracy. I was expecting all sorts of error in bone structure and whatnot, and the old-school Brontosaur instead of the new-school Apatosaur that they had so I was impressed.

And then disaster struck. No wait, then we left and ate dinner at a Tibetan resturant. We had goat curry. It was good I guess but the thought of it made me sick. And it looked kinda of gross, the meat we cooked, but it looked raw. It was REALLY pink. It might have just been the lighting but it looked sort of gross. Tasted good though.

THEN the disaster struck. Nope, sorry, forgot about the icecream. We had Baskin Robbins icecream. Lino got a banana split, but in the hilarious Linus style, instead of a banana he just got a pile of marischino cherries, with the icecream, whipped cream, fudge and another cherry on top. I got a bowl of cherries on the side! SUGARY-SWEET!

THEN the disaster struck. We left and everything was relatively fine untill after we went through the city. We got lost again. This was the third time! Or maybe the fourth if you count our mini getting-lost adventure when we left the highway went around a roundabout and got back on the highway instead of turning around because we were already lost. Anyway we somehow ended up in a hillbilly town watching the train go past at a dodgy gas station. Which actually just turned out to be Coopers Plains and although we weren't on track, we were far from lost.

I finally got home. And um.. yeah that's about it. It was kind of a cross between a mini-road trip and a man-date, but lets assume it was the former. Anyway yeah, it was a lot of fun and funny, but being the horrible story teller I made it sound highly boring. Linus will no-doubt correct me, retell it, and actually make it sound cool. And not dorky like I made it sound.

ALSO being on the road for 6 hours, we got to see a lot of funny car signs. The best one:
"Exotic African Chocolate". That's not so funny untill I saw a black guy driving and joked that it was a sex-service rather than a confectionary company. Ok, so that might sound racist or something, but seriously; Africa isn't exactly famous for its chocolate treats. ... or is it?

IESSO

PS. I might bother with the image descriptions, but probably not. They're pretty self-explanatory.