Mardi Gras

Last night was Sydney's Mardi Gras. Which is basically the same as the one in New Orleans except that instead of beads and topless girls Sydney's has "dykes with bikes" and "asian lady boys float"...Its really just their gay parade but it falls in line with mardi gras, so i guess that is why they call it that. So armed with our FEMALE german escorts we went down to watch the festivities. It was so packed we couldn't even see the streets for most of the time, just the tops of most of the floats. I dont remember all of them but there was a group from canada and I even saw an israeli flag or 2. Theres not much to say about it, because it was just more or less the same thing all night with some people in some pretty crazy costumes. Never seen the one in Toronto but I imagine its basically the same thing. Fun night and even more fun to watch Mike's reactions everytime a guy expressed interest in him. I guess I just didn't have what they were looking for...damn!

Been working at the blue hotel (really nice and expensive) for a week now. This will definatly be my last job here before we travel, but it sucks that we could only find it so close to the end because it is really a lot of fun. Most of day you just stand around and carry peoples bags up to their rooms and you get to park the occasional porche, which at first was nerve wrecking driving on the wrong side of the road, but now is fun. It is weird because the hard part isnt driving on the left side, you constantly think of it, but the turn signals are on the other side of the wheel so I always turn on the windshield wipers when i want to make turns and more dangerously sometimes forget to check in the oncoming lane when making turns : Other than that it, the job is great, we get radios with ear pieces and joke around all day. It almost makes me look forward to work...almost. Also a lot of men have been checking into the hotel for the parade this weekend so when you're bring their bags up to their room all you need to do is hum "milkshake" or anything by madonna softly, and they always tip you...hey for money, anything is possible. On another tangent, the actor that played kip dynamite from napolean dynamite stayed at the hotel. It was kind of disapointing that we couldn't ask him about the internet and everything but it was still funny to just see him. Apparently stars stay at the hotel all the time under aliases and get snuck in through the side enterance.

A quick update on surfing and getting stung by jellyfish. I seem to have hit a plateu with surfing, getting slightly better but not making a lot of ground. But on the brightside, I am really getting good at getting stung by blue bottles. You get so used to it and the pain isnt that bad, its more of the idea of having them float around you that terrifies me. They only wash in when the wind blows towards shore, and it really only stops people from going in the water when there are tons of them but that is rare. Thats all i will say about them because I know that they sound a lot worse then they really are. Final picture is mike and myself with 2 people from his fan club :)