Wednesday, 30. November 2005, 05:56:37
As promised here is the schoolies post...
The Trip:After much discussion 10am was alotted as the time to meet at Chewies house, at which point we would be met by our luxary people mover and trailer for the trip. Everyone was ready when I arrived, yet our vehicle was nowhere insight. Upon walking up Chewie's driveway with two cartoons of the good stuff it became apparent by the look on Tony's dad's face that he had only just realised we werent going to be drinking orange juice all week. (At this point I said a silent prayer that I had elected to put the other cartoon of grog out of sight in my esky.) This was all quickly loaded into the trailer and soon after the Turner's arrived with their people mover for which we were very thankful for. After a few quick "goodbyes" and "no your not getting 'welcome aboard' tatooed on your penis chris"'s we hit the road...
Many a lunchtime had been spent worrying over what Turner's mum would be like on the trip down considering her beliefs regarding teenagers and doing anything apart from living in a cell..Despite these concerns I was pleasantly suprised to find she was pretty cool about the whole thing...(we dont think she saw the amount of booze we had in the trailer she was towing).
This made the trip pretty smooth apart from a few navigational difficulties and an encounter that can on be classed as dam smelly with a rather large dog turd in Kilcoy. Something I feel I need to elaborate on now...
The Dog Turd:After around two hours crammed into the car we decided to stop and have lunch in Kilcoy...something my nose at least regrets. After consuming what was a very nice meat pie, and waving to some St Ursula's girls I know who were on the way down, we piled back into the car. It was at this point Chewie recognised the tell tail odour of dog shit and looked at the bottom of his pluggers only to find, yes you guessed it, there was nuclear grade dog shit attached to it. A quick investigation, of which inspector Morse would have been proud (he would also have been proud of the amount of grog in the vehicle I suspect

) it was discovered that Tony had sucumbed to the scarlet manukka of dog shit also, and unlike Chewie had failed to realise before entering the vehicle.
Needless to say we could not travel in a car with dog shit, so a swift clean up operation was arranged, and David managed to recover a bottle of instant shower (for all you girls thats deoderant) to make the rest of the trip a little more comfortable. We were quickly on the road again... leaving behide what looked like a scene out of 'Texas Chainsaw Masacre' only the blood was dog shit on the pavement in Kilcoy.
After this the trip was quite smooth and we soon arrived at our destination.
Just like to note on behalf of Turner's mum she did produce what was the best call of schoolies something which I wont mention now as it was a definate 'you had to be there' call.
The Arrival:As I myself am a scum I booked me and five mates the cheapest place on the sunshine coast. I must say I myself was pleasantly suprised when we got there on Sunday to find there was in fact no carpet on the walls, and that the apartment was pretty decent. My intial joy at this discovery lasted mere seconds though as I quickly spied the large glass table, and matching coffee table, both of which are the bane of the heavy drinker who wishes to keep their bond. This did however explain the nasty witch lady at receptions not so warm welcome when she realised we were schoolies and that they had put us in such a nice room without a bond. (How she failed to realise six 17/18 year olds booked for a room during that week were in fact schoolies is something I fear we'll never know.) She quickly rectified this by taking Davids' mum's credit card details. Needless to say it wasn't going to be pretty if one of us destroyed either table in one of our drunken stumbles.
To help get over these intial concerns and to recover from smiting the nasty witch lady at reception I quickly cracked my first beer as soon as possible.
On the first night we all had a pretty quiet one in the apartment block we were in, as we had all had a big night at our formal/drinking spirits at Tony's house, and had come a long way. However, during one of my sorties to join Chewie in a lift party and see who was around we did meet Lawrence.
Now this is a sad tale so I suggest you get a strong drink around now...
Basicly Lawrence is one of the poor souls, who out of ignorance, or a sheer organisational oversight booked a family holiday during schoolies week, in an apartment block full of schoolies. Something my astute co-worker Dowling who was staying in a classy caravan park down the road, was quick to point out as we stood waiting for an elevator with him, on our way to a room party with various alcoholic beverages in hand.
(The story of Lawrence will be continued further on...we had many encounters with this poor soul.)
After parting company with Lawrence I can't actually remember what happenned that night but, I am sure we met Steph and Crystal who were staying in the apartment across from us at some point.
To be continued...