I got up, and started getting ready, I went and had a shower etc.

My mate went into the kitchen, and started making some breakfast. I went in and got a bowl out of the cupboard, my mate asked if I wanted some cereal, I said yes.

I went to the fridge to get the soy milk, and the next thing, I turn around and my mate is pouring milk all over the cereal.

Ugh. I then spent the next few minutes pouring the milk off the cereal again, and put soy milk on it instead.

I went and sat outside, and ate the cereal, and left the milk.

I helped my mate push his bike back outside, from under the stairs.

I took the speeding ticket from out of my bag and looked at it.. oh hello.. I noticed that the cops wrote the number plate of my mate's sister's car on my ticket. Well, I don't think I'll be paying that.

I showed my mate, he said to just wait for the letter, and then reply with a letter saying that I don't own a vehicle with any such registration plate, nor have I operated one, they'll go and check it, find that it's got nothing to do with me, and will probably cancel it.

Now I just have to make sure that I can get the reminder letter.. because that'll probably go to QLD too, and it'll take me 6 months to get it from my other mate's ex girlfriend.

My mate and I gave some money to my mate's sister in law and her girlfriend, both for staying there, and for them to go and buy some food, so we didn't eat them out of house and home.

We grabbed the stuff we needed, loaded up the bikes, and then my mate jumped on his bike, his wife in the car, and I on my bike, since I had no real choice but to ride today, it would have stuffed everything up otherwise.

Anyway, the 3 of us took off, and went about 70km down south, to the Holden dealer where my mate's sister bought her car (which we were borrowing).

We dropped the car off there for it's service, apparently there's a free service included with the car purchase, and she only bought it a few months ago.

we waited there for ages, there was a line to book the car in, once that was done, we went back to the bikes, and grabbed a few things out of thr car, and got ready to leave.

My mate and his wife had left their mobile numbers as contact for when the car was ready to pickup, but now they realised that they hadn't charged their phones.

I said I had a phone charger in my bike (along with a cigarette lighter wired onto the battery), but when I pluuged the charger in, the phone didn't start charging. I looked more closely, noticed the charger had an LED on it, and that it wasn't on.

Hmm, something stuffed here, I'll bet the fuse has blown again. Oh well, no time for mucking around now, since I have to use an allen key to get the other side of the bike off, where the battery and fuses are.

My mate's wife said she'd turn her phone off to save the battery, and my mate put a diversion on his phone, that if it was off (if the battery ran out) then the call would go to his wife's phone.

My mate jumped on his bike, I jumped on mine, and his wife jumped on my bike as pillion, since my bike is more suited to carrying a pillion than his.

We took off, and we rode 20km or so back up the coast, and got off at the exit for Dreamworld, and weaved our way around and into the car park.

We went to the bike parking area, parked up, and I used my bike cable to chain both bikes togther.

My mate's wife's sister had given her a voucher, for cheap tickets, adults at kids prices. The offer was for "locals", people who live in QLD, or far north NSW.

Since I'm somewhat of a "local", with a QLD license, they said that I should buy the tickets, and my mate gave me his eftpos card to pay for them with.

That was fine, I went up to the window, gave the woman the voucher, and asked for 3 tickets. I was expecting to have to show her my license, but she just asked my postcode, and I told her my QLD postcode, which was fine, and then I used my mate's eftpos card to pay fro the tickets (he'd told me his PIN so I could do that, heh).

As I was doing that, my mate and his wife came up to the window, we got our three tickets, and then we went in.

The first thing we wanted to do was get rid of a lot of junk we were carrying, I had my helmet and jacket etc, I won't need those.

We went over to the lockers, ah, the same as they had at the rum factory, only this time we had to pay to use them (of course), $7 something/day, not too bad I suppose.

We were thinking we'd need 2, because they aren't huge, but when my mate paid and opened one up, we realised they were pretty deep, and if we used a slight bit of force, we should be abel to shove everything in.

I packed my helmet and jacket in the back first, so they can just squash that as much as necessary, and then we shoved more junk in.

Both my mate and I had brought shorts to wear around, instead of our jeans that we'd worn to ride our bikes, so we went into the men's loos to get changed.

Heh.. the toilet seats were those novelty clear ones with barbed wire and redback spiders in them.

We finished getting changed, and then went back the locker again, where my mate's wife was still shoving stuff in.

She'd worn her shorts under her jeans, so she didn't have to go anywhere to get changed. I unpacked most of the stuff from my pockets, put some sunscreen on, and then we locked the locker and started in to the park.

We only got a little way, and then I decided that I'd put my phone in the locker too, because I wouldn't really need it, and it's just something to have to worry about losing or having stolen or dropping off one of the rides or something, so I went back and put it in the locker.

I caught back up to them, they were heading over to go on the first ride, The Claw, one that's only been put in recently.

It was good coming on a Thursday.. there were no lines, the ride was just finishing, we went and got in the queue, it stopped, they unloaded it, and we got on immediately, sweet.

I didn't like this ride too much, it swings back and forth, and at the same time the bit that swings is round, with everyone sitting around the outside of it, and it turns around.

I didn't mind it too much when it would swing up, and you were looking at the sky, and then you'd go down backwards, but then when it swung back down, and you were going forwards, I hated it, and I was swearing my head off.

One of the times we went down forwards, there was a loud clang noise, I didn't like that either.

When we got off, I realised I had no loose change left in my pocket, it must have all floated out, and that must have been what I heard clanging, as it belted down on the big steel plates below the ride that drop down whe the ride starts.

We got off there, and headed straight over to go on the next ride, Wipeout.

I have no idea what this ride does, I didn't watch it, it was just loading up at this point, about to start.

I went and got in the line. My mate stood around having a smoke, and watching the ride, and then he came and got in the line, but there was about 10 people in between us.

We got on the next ride, ie once the run it was on finished and everyone got off.

I went around to get on, it's 2 rows of seats, one facing forward, and one facing backwards. I got on the front, and then the next bunch of people all went around to the back, so when my mate came to get on, there was only a couple of people in front of him.

Thos people were going to sit down next to me, so I asked if they wouldn't mine just leaving one seat for my mate, and they said that was ok, and then my mate thanked them, and he sat down next to me, and the people we'd spoken to said they weren't going to argue with 2 big blokes like us, especially one with a big green mohawk. Hehe.

More people filed on, and they got ready to run the ride. The front row had filled up to the end, but there were a few spare seats to my right (you get on from the left) because the chicks that got on before me originally sat there, and then moved right down to the right end, and I couldn't be bothered to move.

Now some chick got on, and there was no room, so she asked if everyone could move along one seat. I got up and repeated her request to everyone, and then someone said the ride was about to start, so I just sat down again.

Then they came over the PA, and asked everyone to move along one seat, so we did. Then my mate had to be a smartass, and make some comment about the seat (that I'd been sitting in) being wet, yeah, haha.

The harnesses came down, and we got locked in, and then the ride started. My mate's wife wasn't going on this one, she was just watching us and taking pictures.

This ride is hard to explain, the rows of seats are attached to rigth angle arms at the ends that turn around, so the seats go around in a circle, it does this for a bit, and then the 2 ends move independently, and it sort of twists around, and then the rows of seats start doing 360 degree turns, while the thing is twisting.

It all sort of settles down after that, the 2 ends go back in sync, and then the seats just rock back and forth for a bit, and then they spin around the other way to before, and the ride ends.

We piled off that, and went to work out what we were going on next.

My mate wanted to go on The Cyclone, which is a little rollercoaster. We went and got in the line for that, it's a massive queue area, all inside this spiral building to get you up to the top.

We had to wait in the line about 20 minutes here, but it wasn't too bad, because we'd only been in the park for a little while, and already been on 2 rides, with no great lines.

We chatted for a bit, and then when we got on the next run of the Cyclone, we ended up at the ass end of the people that could fit on the ride, so I wasn't able to go in the same coaster car as my mate and his wife, but that was ok.

I started out waiting in the line to get in the car in front of them, but then some kid asked if I'd swap with him into the car in front of that again, that suited me, so I swapped.

I started chatting with the Indian guy I'd be riding with, he was there with his kids.

The ride that was going finished, and the doors opened, and then the 4 of us piled into the car, the 2 kids in the front, and the Indian guy and myself in the back, we continued chatting while the ride got ready, and then left, and chugged up the first hill.

After that, it shoots down, swings around a bit, and there's a couple of loop the loops, it takes your picture halfway through the first loop, that was pretty groovy.

I got ready for it, and gave the camera a big cheesy grin and thumbs up as we went through, then did the other loop, it swung around a bit more, and then we ended up back where we got on.

Gees, that was quick. We got off, and sort of dawdled our way back down (you line up inside the building, on the spiral ramp, and go back down the outside of the building, on another spiral ramp.

We stopped and watched the next run of the ride, and then we continued wandering down. At the bottom of the ramp, you end up in a gift shop, and at the counter they have the photos of the last run on display.

We looked at them, I didn't mine the one of me, we grabbed the numbers of the photos, because we were talking about coming back to ride it again, so the 3 of us could get in the same car and photo.

We left from there, wandered back to main area of the park (because this ride is right off at the side).

They have a centrifuge ride there, I can't remember what it's called, but we went up and watched it going around, heh, there wre some people in there turned upside down, that looks cool.

When it finished, my mate and I went down to line up to go in it. The guy running the ride screwed up stopping it, and the door missed the stairs, so it had to go around again to line up the door properly.

Once that was done, all the people piled off, and they let us in. My mate and I went across to the wall opposite the door, and waited.

My mate said it was a race to see who could turn upside down first, heh, you're on. We waited another couple of minutes while everyone got in and they told us what to do, and then it started.

It took a little while before there was anough force to hold us against the wall, my mate beat me turning upside down, but I was only a little bit behind.

I blame it on me being a bit of a fat bastard, and needing a bit more force to hold me up against the wall.

We rode the whole ride upside down, not long after getting upside down, the force is too much to move again, so you couldn't turn bck around if you wanted to anyway.

After going around for a few minutes, they started slowing it down, and told people to turn back around, and then they slowed it to a stop.

Riding upside down stuffs you up, because it's spinning one way, and then you turn around, and it feels like it's going the other way.

We wobbled off that ride, and decided to go and get something to eat (_after_ going on that ride). While looking for a food place, we ended up in the arcade. I don't know why they would put arcade machines in a theme park, anything to collect money I suppose.

My mate bought $11 worth of tokens, the minimum you could buy, and the machines only took the tokens.

The first machine in there was one where there's a bunch of stuffed animals attached to a rotating belt by crepe paper, and you use a gun loaded with little plastic balls to tear the crepe paper.

There were a couple of animals hanging off by only a few threads, so my mate used almost all of the tokens trying to get one of them, and did in the end, an octopus.

He gave me a go before he got it, but the guns were so far out of whack in regards to aiming, it was only because he'd had so many goes that he knew how far off straight the gun was.

I put a couple of the tokens in the machine where you can push more tokens off the edge, if you get it in the right spot, but didn't get anything there.

I found a stack of tickets hanging out of the machine to get more tokens, so I gave them to my mate's wife, if she wanted to swap them for anything at the counter, because that junk is always for little kids and girls, hair things etc.

Once all the tokens were gone, we left, and went to find some lunch. We walked through Nickelodeon land, and stopped at a game where you can win stuff.

There were 2 games, the first you had to catapult rubber chickens into one of 4 cooking pots that were turning around in the middle, and the other was a giant version of the fishing game where you put the "hook" in the mouth of a fish when it opens as they are all turning around.

My mate had a go of the rubber chicken game, you get a 3 goes and a practice shot, on the practice he got one in, but then didn't get anymore, so his prize was some sort of stuffed animal.

His wife had a go of the fishing game, it was a bit of a stuffup, the fish's mouth would open, and she got the hook in, and it would shut again, but then it would just pull out when she tried to lift it up, this happened about 3 times, and then she finally got one.

Depending on the colour sticker on the bottom, you got a different prize, the colour she ended up getting was common, so they had a bucket of crappy prizes to pick out of, so someone picked out this long stick thing, a backscratcher or something.

I got to use a Homeresque joke, from when Marge and Homer were having a posh dinner, with about 6 different forks, including some super long on, and Marge asked "what's this one for?", and Homer in a posh voice says "I believe you use that to scratch your ass", or something like that.

We kept going, there was a big tent with food places in there, but nothing grabbed our fancy, so we kept going, and ended up finding our way back to the entrance of the park again.

There was a food area in there, so we went in there, I just got a sandwich and a drink, and that ended up being nearly $10, typical.

Once we'd finished eating, we started wandering again, and we went into the old western area of the park.

There's a place in here to get those old time photos done, and my mate was going on about getting them done, so we went and looked in there, and it seemed pretty cool, so we worked out what we wanted to do, and sat down to wait.

My mate's wife went in the back to get changed, and for the guys, all the clothes are made so you just put them on over your normal clothes. The shirts and jackets are a single thing that you put your arms into, and it does up at the back with ties, heh.

We put jackets on over that, and waited again.

I commented that we were like newsreaders, sitting there with shirts and jackets on, but with only shorts on.

We perved on the chicks getting photos done in front of us, and when they were finished, my mate and I were told to go and sit in front of the bar.

We sat there, and they put a card table in front of us, which hid the fact we were only wearing shorts.

My mate's wife sat up on the bar behind us, and then we were given a stack of guns.

We took about 10 different pictures, and then we went got up, took the gear off again, and my mate's wife went and got changed back again.

Once she came back, we went through all the pictures, and picked out the 3 that we wanted, and which one in the frame etc.

This was quite funny.. one of the photos my mate had purposely put a stupid grin on his face, and in the photo he looked like a gay porn star, and to make it even funnier, the chick working there kept displaying while we were trying to work out which ones we wanted.

While we doing that, she accidently scrolled back and displayed one of the photos of the 3 chicks that had got photos before us, and my mate jokingly asked if we could get one of them, and then his wife hit him, Hah.

We paid for those, and kept wandering, because it takes them a while to develop the photos, and put one in the frame etc, so we'd come back and get them later.

As we continued wandering, there was a stand to get fake tattoos. I looked at all the different ones up on the wall, but I couldn't find anything that I liked.

My mate got one, two actually, some sort of lightning bolt thing on both sides of his neck.

He kept going on at me to get one, and I said that I hadn't seen anything that I wanted, so he said he'd pick one, and pay for it. Whatever.

I sat down in the chair, and then he picked one, and told the woman which one. The way they do these, is the black is done with a rubber stamp, and then they touch it up with a brush, and do the colouring with a brush.

The woman went through and found the stamp, and carefully took it out of the drawer, and kept it where I couldn't see what it was.

Hmm, somehow I think my mate is being a smartarse, and the woman's worked it out, so she's playing along with him. She inked it up, and asked where I wanted it, my mate said on the top of my right arm, but she said it was too hairy, but the inside was ok.

I turned my arm over, and she put the stamp on the inside of my right arm.

She took it away again, after having stamped, and I realised what it was. Oh Christ. It's a tattoo of a chick with big boobs.

I jsut sat there with a very unimpressed sour look on my face while the woman touched it up and coloured it, and my mate pissed himself laughing.

Once that was done, we kept wandering, me walking along shaking my head.

My mate and his wife wanted to go on the chair drop thing that's on the side of the Tower of Terror. He'd been going on about it all day, I told him there was no way I was going on it.

I can handle anything except being hung way up in the air for ages, and then dropped. It's not going to happen, I'm not going on it. I looked after the bag, and my mate and his wife went in and lined up.

I waited here for a little while, about 10 or 15 minutes it took, I just watched the ride going through several runs, because they only get about 6 people on it at a time, but it runs on both sides of the tower.

I thought about taking a picture of them, but then they ended up on the run on the back of the tower, so I couldn't see them anyway.

When they came back from there, we kept wandering, and we went and got on the skyway, and rode across to the wildlife area.

On our way across here, it goes across the river that the steamboat runs on, they used to have a big show, guys would come out of shacks along the side and have shootouts, but they don't do that anymore, now they just run the steamboat around the river twice a day.

We walked right through the wildlife area, there were kangaroos hopping around in the first bit, and then we headed into the reptile bit, and looked at all the snakes, and then walked around to where they have a tiger show at the moment.

We watched the tiger show, it was pretty cool, they had the tigers climbing up on the handlers, and standing up tall, and jumping around between logs, and one jumped about 10 feet off the ground off a rock, and one climbed a tree.

Once that was all done, there were a few spots of rain.

We rushed over to go on the Tower of Terror, this is a little maglev train thing of 2 carriages, that races up the side of the tower that the drop is on, and then races back down into where you get on.

Anyway, we rushed over there, and got in the line. We had to wait in here for ages for some reason. A couple of times over the PA they said that due to bad weather they would have to stop the ride (probably because the tower is a lightning attractor, or the rain causes the track to be extra slippery or something).

We waited and waited and waited, eventually the line moved a bit, and then we had to wait for another few minutes, and they made the announcement about bad weather again.

Eventually we got up to wait to get into the carriages. There was a bit of mucking around here, as to who was going to sit in what row, but we got that sorted out. The carriages came back, and we all jumped in, I didn't want to sit on the side, so I swapped with my mate and sit in one seat.

We sat in that for a bit, and then it shoots off, up to 160km/hr or something, and before you come out of the tunnel, it takes your picture.

After it got out of the tunnel, it was a thrill, because now you had some idea of the speed you were going, everything flying past, then it shot up the side of the tower.

It felt like quite a few Gs as it made the right angle turn to go up the tower, and then you just hang there for a bit, and then it shoots back down backwards, and races back to the start.

This ride only took about 1 minute, I don't know why there was a massive wait before, when we were only a few people from the start of the queue.

We wandered out the other side, and we all packed into a lift, the lift goes down, and opens.. in a shop. How convenient.

This was similar to the shop near the rollercoaster, they were showing the photos from the ride. My mate bought one of us on that, because you get a whole carriage with about 15 people in it in one photo.

Heh, it's a pretty funny photo, I'm just sitting there looking inimpressed, even though it's supposed to be going 160km/hr, and there are other people who looked scared shitless.

We bummed around in here for a while, I browsed around all the merchandise, it's all so expensive.

Just as we left that shop, they came over the PA and said that the Tower of Terror was now stopped, because of bad weather, but they would continuously reasess the situation.

It started raining a bit heavier now, it wasn't really heavy, but enough to be annoying.

I went with my mate's wife back to the old time photos place to pick up our photos, and my mate went back to the Cyclon to see if he could get the photo of his wife and him on the Cyclone this morning.

After we picked up the photos, I said I wanted to go to the Nick shop, and get something for my brother, so we wandered back there.

I had a look in there, there was stacks of cool stuff, I ended up getting a Spongebob Squarepants inflatable hammer for him.

My mate's wife wanted to look for some souveniers, because she said people always give them to her, but she never goes anywhere to get them anything, so we went into some jewellery shop, and she decided that the stuff was all too junky, so she didn't bother getting anything.

We went back to the entrance, and my mate came back not long after. He didn't have the photo from before, he'd got back there, and they told him that they'd taken the systems down because of the weather, in case there was a storm or something.

We opened the locker, and dragged all our junk out again, my mate and I put our jeans back on, and then the two of us left, and left his wife there, rather than pillioning her around in the rain, and trying to carry the framed photo and other photos we had.

We went back to the bikes, I unchained them, and then I doubled my mate back to the Holden dealer to pick up the car.

On the way there it totally pissed down with rain, and we got soaked through. While on the motorway heading to the car dealer, a motorbike cop got on at one of the entrances, I just ignored him, hung back a bit, and he left us behind.

We got off at the right exit, and headed around near the car place. I had to make a U turn to get in there, so I waited to turn, as I did so an ambulance was screaming around, so I just stopped and waited for them, and then I noticed I had a cop car sitting on my ass, oh great.

I waited for a gap, and carefully made a U turn, making sure to not have any stuffups, because of my license being suspended, and pillioning my mate, when I'm not supposed to have pillions either.

We got into the car place, and my mate went in to pick up the car.

I jumped off my bike, and stood out of the car, and tried to get some of the excess water out of my clothes.

It took ages to pick up the car. I got fed up with waiting after about 20 minutes, and went in to foudn out what was going on.

They were trying to charge my mate for the service, that was supposed to be free. $109 they're trying to charge or something.

My mate questioned what it was for, and apparently it was for replacement of a blown globe or something.

How ridiculous. He stood there and argued with the guy, got the manager out, argued with him. Then he called up his sister to find out what the story was in regards to the free service, and ended up giving his phone to the manager to speak to his sister about it.

I went back outside to wait again, I was pissed off. He came out, and told me that they'd managed to drop it down to $40 something, and he paid it, but told them that he was totally pissed off, and wouldn't be coming back there again.

He jumped in the car, and I jumped back on my bike, and we took off to go back to Dreamworld to pick up my mate's wife, and all the junk.

He was making up ground here and there, speeding a bit, I was just hanging back, and riding proplerly, ie at the speed limit, both because of my license, and because the road is soaked.

My mate thought he knew a quick way back, but we ended up going the wrong way, and then ended up right back where we started, so we did a U turn, but then I missed getting through the lights so only got halfway through the U turn and back on the motorway the other way.

I was pretty sure I could find the way, because we've already done this ride this morning, I got back on the motorwy heading north, and got off at the Dreamworld exit, and made my way around back to Dreamworld.

I think I got back there about 10 minutes afetr my mate.

His wife got in the car, and he got on his bike, the 2 of us took off, and headed back up for his sister in law's place where we were staying, his wife had to go to McDonalds (or Hungry Jacks, some fast food place) somewhere back near there, where her sister is a manager, to get the keys so we could get in.

We rode back, found our way, parked up in the carport, and stood around trying to dry ourselves off a bit.

My mate's wife got back about 10 minutes later, and we went inside.

I went and got changed into some dry clothes, and put my wet clothes in the dryer, there was nothing I could do about my sneakers though, they were totally soaked.

I grabbed the bottle of Bundy liqueur, and had a few glasses of that.

We sat and tried to work out what we were having for dinner. My mate's wife's sister in law had bought food, sausages and stuff, which my mate's wife wanted, but my mate didn't, we ended up agreeing to order some pizzas.

My mate had to go and pick up his sister's computer from where she'd been living before she came down to his place, it was north of Brisbane somewhere, and was probably going to take a couple of hours.

He took off, and his wife and I sat and watched tv, and ate cheese and crackers. When my mate had been gone for almost an hour, we figured he was probably on his way back, so I called up and ordered the pizzas.

They were going to take an hour, so that was fairly good timing.

My mate got back about 45 minutes later, and the pizzas arrived not long after that.

We ate dinner, drank some more Bundy, watched tv, and then went to bed.

My mate's wife was getting up early in the morning to head back home by tomorrow night, because she's got her friends coming from Uni for a party or something.