first weekend sans jetlag

This friday was my first real night out. It felt like a normal night out in texas actually- started out with happy hour after work. I met lots of new people - the entire time they were talking about plans for the night - who's going to which bar, which party, etc etc. I had pretty much made friends with one girl and was planning on going out with her for the night. She announced "We're going to a house party!! wooo!!!" So I start to listen to others at the happy hour. "you going to brians?" ---" oh yeah, we're going to the weeeeed party."


woah. what? weed party? I am soooo not into going to a weed party with people from work. Or at all. But let's face it. I (a) have no other plans and (b) have no friends. So I decide to go. Luckily they were saying "Wii party". Thank god. Just Nintendo...And I got 2nd place in bowling! yes!!

the end of the night ended up at a bar called regatta, which is not too far from my apartment.
Here is a picture of the toilet. It was a lot like a toilet in jail.



Saturday morning I woke up, called mum and drank a cup o tea, like a good commonwealth girl. And this was my view from the balcony. It was going to be a good day.

after tea, i head downtown. I decided that i was going to let myself be a tourist today. I did totally geeky touristy things. took pictures of stupid stuff, bought stamps and post cards in bulk, walked around looking at maps making others walk around me. no worries though - got some great new pictures of boxes.




And then i happened upon a street preformer. i am certain he is going to haunt my dreams for years.



A few other things worth mentioning....

burger king anyone?


And to my dismay, this store had nothing to do with david bowie. Or davy jones from the monkeys. Bugga!