Super Duper Return To Canada: Hawaii Edition

Hello from Hawaii everybody. I am currently waiting for my flight to Vancouver from Honolulu as I write this. It's pretty nice! This is a decent airport. Everything is expensive af cause its in USD but I'm still alive!




But uhhhh yeah this is my last day outside of Canada for a minute I think? It's been really fun but I am looking forward to being in the cold again. It was so HOT and HUMID in Hawaii, oh woe is me being stuck in the rich white people vacation destination, it's so hard being handsome and sweaty.

Hawaii is really nice though! This is the first time I've ever been, and it was really really great except for the heat and the fact that I have to pay tax afterwards and then tip at restaurants again. That is something I'm genuinely going to miss about Australia, why don't the USA and Canada just calculate the tax into the price in the first place, why do we live in this backward country >:( But the beaches were really nice, you don't get sand everywhere like you do in Australia, the sun wasn't TOO killer, and there were no flies swarming me like there are in Australia right now ahaha. Everything is absolutely super overprice though, my wallet is SORE but soon I will be in Canada and don't have to think about currency exchange at all. But I had some delicious loco moco for breakfast and then there was some cool open market on tonight, so I grabbed a "Loaded Pork Fries" which was also amazing. It may be expensive but at least it's delicious! I now just have 6 granola bars that will last me until Canada, plus whatever snacks are on WestJet. I DON'T need the $20 USD starbucks sandwich it's NOT HAPPENING. That's like 30 CAD ITS NUTS.



Okay now I'm back in Canada, I got really tired writing that in Hawaii and then had to board my plane. I slept like poopoo, I read a bunch of One Piece before going to sleep and I had awful fever dreams about how the straw hats needed to save Sanji from Big Mom. But it's fine, I got like 4 hours of "sleep" and now I'm back in Vancouver baybeeeeee, ready to just hang out with some friends for a minute and then go decompose at my parent's house tomorrow. Can't wait to play Oblivion and walk the dogs every day.


I don't think I have the brainpower to actually write anything in here that's deeper than "I feel eepy sleepy" so I'm taking a break again, I tried to drink a coffee and it helped a bit, but my brain still wants to force shutdown. I'm going to go do something brainless until my friends are free. (nevermind I'm back).

So now that I'm back in Canada, I think something fun to do would be to make a highlight (and lowlight) reel of sick Aussie Moments that happened over the last year :)

HIGHLIGHT 1: CASSOWARY ENCOUNTER


This is such a major highlight for me. Me and The Boys saddled up in my new shitty car and took a trip to Paronella Park, which was super cool to begin with, but then we decided to also head to Etty Bay to see if we could spot a Cassowary. We searched the beach, but couldn't find anything. Dejected, we started driving away from the beach, and about halfway out of the beach road, there it was.

CASSOWARY!!!!
We all ABSOLUTELY popped off in the car, and we managed to follow this beauty for like 4 minutes until it wandered into someone's yard and we couldn't follow it any further. Absolutely magical moment that deepened all of our friendship and appreciation for Australia :D

LOWLIGHT 1: FOOT BREAKAGE


Pretty self explanatory. Early when I was in Port Macquarie, I fell off a rock while hiking near the beach and ended up getting a hairline fracture in my heel. This forced me to stay home so I couldn't work my sick new job at the turkish restaurant. Drove me crazy not being able to walk around and go on my bike. I'm super lucky the recovery didn't take very long, but omg those 2 weeks of having to just wait around in the heat of the house was torturrrreeee.... :( On the bright side, I made good friends with my housemates during that time and also got to work on my first game and finish Fallout 4. Not willing to do this again I stg.

HIGHLIGHT 2: CHROME CHOMPSKI AND OTHER ART


So there's like, lots of cool art in Australia? and I had a great time seeing all of it? Chrome Chompski is definitely my most memorable, but other highlights include seeing Sparks at the Sydney Opera House, and the painted rocks in Port Macquarie.