Random Canberra

Okay so I know its been awhile since I've blogged, but its been crazy busy here with school ending and travelling and trying to cherish our last few weeks in Australia! Anyways, so Friday night a couple weeks ago I was drinking with the usual crew and we were trying to think of something random and fun to do for the rest of the weekend. Pretty much everyone decided to do Sydney, but me and Charlie had already done Sydney a few times so we decided if we were going to spend money travelling then we might as well go somewhere we haven't been yet. The tricky part was that we didn't want to spend too much and it was last minute at like 12am when we were deciding this, so it had to be some place where we didnt have to fly there...and so we chose Canberra. Canberra is the capital of Australia and its a couple hours south of Sydney. Anyways, so it ends up that everyone else bails and decides to do Sydney, so just me and Charlie went. We didn't go to bed that night til really late cause we went out to the bars, so basically the morning came reallllly fast...was up and moving at 830 cause we had to catch the 920 train. 

Probably the best/worst part of the spontaneity of this trip was the fact that I had NO idea I was going to be going anywhere that weekend...so when I went into town that Friday night I only brought a few things with me considering I figured I would be eventually coming back to campus before going out again...well, I was wrong. We planned the trip right then and I just had to deal with wearing the same jeans for like 3 days straight...I did randomly have an extra shirt and underwear so THANK GOD, cause that would have been too gross. So yeah, I probably looked like an idiot the whole time, but its a good story I think. 

So we had to take a 2.5 hr train ride to Sydney and then catch a greyhound bus from there to Canberra. The bus ride ended up being like 3 hours...and it ended up being one of the most uncomfortable buses ever. No joke. I'm pretty sure Charlie and I looked like awkward giants trying to fit in the damn seats...no leg room, no good. And then they played The Knights Tale during the ride and I had never seen it so I decided to watch it...I dont understand how this movie was so popular...it sucked and none of my friends better like that movie, seriously. 

Alriiiiighty, when we finally got to Canberra we had no plan, obviously, so we just walked around the city center for awhile and got some info brochures.  It was close to 4pm by the time we got there so we didnt have many options on what to do for our first night. So we went looking for this huge lake...and apparently we're both retarded cause it took us over an hour til we finally found it...which means by the time we got there it was dark as eff...whatever though, we found a random dock and just took it all in for a bit til we started freezing. Then we walked around the city center some more...Canberra is not really what I expected. Its really pretty, but it doesnt feel like a city at all, which is kinda cool. Its not noisy and there aren't crowds of people everywhere...really chill. Not much of a nightlife, so pretty much that night we went to this restaurant/pub had some dinner and amazing Guinness beers...it ended up being one of the more hopping places, so good choice then eh? Didn't have too late of a night though cause we wanted to get up early on Sunday so we could actually do some Canberra stuff.

So when I say Canberra stuff I mean we decided to see the Australian War Memorials, which were pretty cool I guess, but the best part was the War Museum they had...it was huge...we didnt have time to go through the whole thing, but they had some pretty neat stuff there.  After the museum we went to the zoo haha. I know, you'd think we would have done some other museum or something, but Charlie hadnt been to a zoo here yet and that was unacceptable so we did that. Best/worst zoo ever. They had sweet animals and shit and there wasn't like anyone there so that was tight, but I'm pretty sure I could have climbed into any of the cages and done whatever the eff I wanted without getting caught haha...there was no one around, it was sick...its was as close to being a ghetto zoo without actually being a ghetto zoo...I dont know, I can't really explain it, just take my word for it. Oh! and we got to pet some dingoes while they we were out walking them...siiiiiiick. I'm obsessed.

So yeah, thats the Random Canberra trip in a nutshell. Words of advice, dont go there for more than 2 days and don't go if you want to party party party, otherwise, pretty cool place and fun trip! I'll try updating some more, but I dont want to write anymore right now so PEACE.