Tuesday 23rd December
A rainy morning in Gold Coast followed by a coach journey to the long anticipated Byron Bay! Very happy with my Hostel of choice and even went to Aldi to finally get some food to cook in said hostel 😊
I then joined my roommate for a walk up to the lighthouse and with the drizzly weather didn’t expect much of a sunset but this cleared and led to some spectacular views of the much spoken about sharks!
At the top we were also rewarded by a pod of dolphins followed by a spectacular sunset!
Then someone in the hostel put on the film EXmas which I was greatly enjoying until someone else turned it off right before the end 😢
Shattered at the end of the day but excited for Christmas Eve 🎄🎅
Wednesday 24th December
What a day goodness me! I had a relaxed day went shopping and treated myself to a few books as a Christmas present and then took myself on a lunch date with another of my vouchers from Rob and Kay!
Then got myself ready to join the BBQ happening at my hostel where I re-met 2 lovely girls I had bumped into on K’gari and befriended them and their roommates!
Just before 6:30 we got news that the piano bar was already sold out but thought we would try our luck anyway and went and joined the virtual waiting list before heading to the beach for some pres 🍻
This was excellent and included a brief free 30 min silent disco on the beach before we headed to the Saltwater Social Club where we had an excellent dance and drank far too much but lots of fun was had 🕺🕺
We then returned for late night Croissants and Cookies and by this point it was well into Christmas for us so see below Vicky’s lovely video she received to see in Christmas 🎅
Thursday 25th December 🎄
Had a beautiful day on the beach sunbathing and swimming (getting slightly stung by a horrible new discovery of sea lice) and having some coffee and fresh OJ to resurrect from my overindulgences the night before…
I was (entirely against my will) roped into joining a team to play pool and then hugely disappointed my teammate due to my incompetence but he went ahead and won for us anyway!
We tried to make it to the beach for sunset which was distinctly unimpressive but had a chilled evening by the sea which included a long argument I had with a Danish person regarding which one of us could get to Mars first.
I was TIRED when we got back to the hostel and unimpressed that more pool was on the menu so watched the end of the Holiday!
Friday 26th December
Again a lovely and chilled day which included some relaxing by the pool, getting a tour of our new friend’s car which we had heard LOTS about his troubles selling and packing up my room before venturing to the bus stop for the dreaded overnight coach…
All in all a delightful Christmas was had with lovely new friends 🫶🏻
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