Now Sarah was super keen on visiting Palm Beach. It's where Home and Away is filmed. Her and Little Jenny Allen had been to the Neighbours set when they were in Melbourne. They all got up early (some taking longer than others) and headed out to go and hire a car to get to the beach. But there weren't any cars. Everything was booked. Sarah was really upset as it was pretty much the only day in the holiday they could have all gone there. Instead they decided to go to Manly. The day was so hot and waiting for the boat, they all got their suntan cream on. After a 30 minute glorious boat trip and a quick game of 'mine' they were settling down on Manly beach with their picnic and there they chilled for an afternoon. They had to make sure they sat near the toilet, as Ryan bladder was ever so weak.
"Ooo shall we go and get some beers?" Ryan asked. "I've been dreaming about drinking beer on the beach!"
So off they all went to the bottle shop. After a quick lesson of how to open up a beer bottle with a lighter, they wandered over to the harbour side of Manly. On the beach side, they weren't able to get in the sea as there were too many stingers (stinging jellyfish). There were still jellyfish in the harbour side, but not stinging ones. They set up their towels and drinks etc and were just about to tuck in to a nice cold beer when they noticed the sign on the side of the beach
'NO DRINKING ALCOHOL'
Dammit. After a bit of a conversation whether they should just chance it, they realised they were way too law abiding for such a thing and packed up their bits to go back over to the beach side. There they sat happily with their beers (having not looked out for any similar signs this time) and watched as an older lady walked about with a metal detector. As they watched they realised that she was just trying to find anything that anyone had unfortunately dropped throughout the day. They thought it a rather sad hobbie for her. As she approached Ryan made some beeping noises to throw her off course.
As they finished their drinks they headed back to get their boat back to town. It was Little Jenny Allen's last evening so they had planned an evening out. She had gone a bit earlier to go and say goodbye to her old boss, Scott. The sun was setting and there was a bit of time to wait before they got their boat, so what other option was there but to eat at Nandos. It was just too good an opportunity for them to miss. And what a good Nando's it was.
Back in town and a shower later, they were in the SCU bar toasting the end of Little Jenny Allen's holiday. Ryan didn't make it out. The sun, beer and whole chicken that he'd devoured had taken it's toll and he crashed out as soon as they had gotten home. As they sat there, watching in awe at the surfing video that was playing, Little Jenny Allen got a missed call from Magic fm, the place she had gone for a job for before flying to Australia. She ran outside to call them back, almost certain that she didn't get the job. But 2 minutes later she returned smiling from ear to ear. She got it!!!!! She was soo happy, and the group congratulated her. All the more reason to be celebrating!
The next morning was a bit of a write-off. Little Jenny Allen, Sarah and Anya packed up and checked out of 'The Wake Up' hostel. Anya went off to send a package of 'tut' home (tut that she wanted to keep but not drag round with her) and the other 2 went to have breakfast. Before long it was time to get the airport bus. Laura and Ryan were staying in Sydney for a few more days as they had only just got there. Sarah and Anya had plans to head up to Brisbane and would be meeting them in a few days. So they got on the airport bus, waved Little Jenny Allen off at the international airport and checked in to their own flight to Brisbane. It was weird waving her off. She was too little to be heading home on her own.
Soon enough Sarah and Anya were checking in to their new hostel in Brisbane. Anya was excited to be back with travel pal Sarah again. They'd had so much fun in Thailand together. Check in was the slowest EVER. They'd hoped to go and do some shopping, but by the time they had checked in and booked the following day's trip everything was closed (it was only about 5pm on a Saturday) so they decided it was time for something to eat. They had a nice pizza, a glass or two of vino and an earlish night in their sauna'd room (which also had a dead cockroach living in the corner - Anya didn't know whether to point this out to Sarah or not, but she did, but then wished she hadn't going by Sarah's reaction).
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