1.21 Jigawatts!

In the end I got to quit Greenpeace about an hour before they could fire me! I didn't make the grand scene that I envisioned in my head, because despite the job not working out I really liked the people, but at least I stole a Greenpeace T-Shirt! The same morning before my final day at Greenpeace, I had an interview for the W hotel, which is now called the Blue hotel. When I went for the interview the lady said to me that they are owned by the Taj Mahal Hotel Group in India. Which really sounded impressive, but when I went on their website, it turns out that they own a hotel called the "Taj Mahal" in India and it has nothing to do with the real Taj Mahal in India! Not that impressive anymore. Mike has been working there for a week as a porter and I am going to start there on monday. It should be pretty good, get to park nice cars all day, carry peoples luggage, get walkie talkies with cool ear pieces and code names, and free lunch in their kitchen. Looks like this should be my last job in Australia before we travel at the end, so hopefully I can last more than a 8 days this time...The picture at the top was when we went with our roomate to fly his kite. Im in blue flying the kite and mike is in white lying on the ground after my mad sick kite flying skills knocked him on his coal mining ass.

The other day we woke up early to try and go surfing at sunrise. We got down to the beach while it was still dark, huddled up in our towels and waited for the sun to rise. What we didn't know was that the winds had brought in swarms of bluebottles. Feeling really chuffed with ourselves, we paddled out about a hundred feet when they first attacked. We lasted about 30 seconds out in the water before we were stung about 5 times and then swam in as hard as we could and ran straight to the showers on the beach. After that we watched about 5 other people try swimming and come running out of the water, which was funny when it happened to them...

Can't think of any other big news here. I plan on working for about 3 or 4 weeks at the hotel. Mike was saying that a lot of stars stay at the hotel and have been known to party with the staff. Apparently the Foo Fighters have partied there with other porters, so hopefully cool stuff like that happens while I am there. Mike and myself made deals on what cars we get to park in valet. I traded him a prius for an smart car, a subaru wrx for a mazda rx8, a 1992 buick century for an 1988 volvo station wagon, and the list goes on. Also I have never had so much fun watching the olympics before. Its really a lot better when you live with people from other countries and then the games get personal. Sometimes the celebrations get out of hand but its a great way to vent to frustration at our roomates. (this picture is from one of the barbies that we had at the beach)

The final picture is from the cliffs by the beach where we are staying. From where we are you can jump in the water and go snorkling...its really nice.