Parties, Parties
Sunday, June 5th, 2005There is this nightclub in Brisbane, called ‘The Family’. It gained some prizes as being the best nightclub in previous years. It is really big - four floors, different kinds of music, full of things. It opens only at weekends, and even has a “dressing code” upon which it selects which people go inside. Roey and Alex talked about the ‘Family’s Party’ for three days.
So they were quite dissappointed when they wouldn’t let me in because I failed to meet their dressing code because of my … (Karen, hold still) … shoes.
Brisbane just didn’t fail until our very last moment there.
We went instead to a pub (’The Birdy Num-Num’) and spent there an hour or two. I knew how eager they were about this party, and so we split later (they didn’t want at the beginning, but I was having it my way) and I went to another place where there was a nice show - just some band with guitars and live music. They went to the Familiy, paid 12$ entrance, and found out that the place was totally empty. In fact, it was so bad that they returned for the Birdy-Num-Num for the rest of the night and kept talking about how bad (the exact term is Ma’Afan) this Family thing is for a full day. I, on the other hand, had a very pleasent evening.
A good thing that happened in Brisbane is that Roey bought a small guitar, and now he spends some time playing it while I drive the car, and we’ll take it for our sail later this week and he’ll give us guitar lessons.
So we arrived at Noosa. Noosa is a quiet beach-town, just north of Brisbane, at the Sunshine-Coast. The name is misleading, because it was pretty cloudy and there even was some drizzel, which turned into rain in the night (but today it is over, and there is sunshine once again). We arrived at Saturday just ready for the weekend parties.
A few years ago, Ofir tried to introduce me into nightclubs and parties. I didn’t like it because it was full of smoke, too loud, and too crouded. In Noosa I found a place (the Koala’s) where there was an excellent party, with absolutely no smoke at all. None was smoking, there was no smoke machines, and the air was - well - clean. I had a great time. Roey and Alex enjoyed it to a lesser extent, because they were very tired from the day before.
Today we concluded that the parties here are not what they expected. Instead, we are now going to a small natural reserve here at Noosa, where we hope to see Koalas in the wild. Later we will go to our next destination - the promising Fraser Island.
