Thursday, April 30, 2015

I don't care how geeky they look, I'm getting mud guards for my bike!

Come for The Pink Floyd Experience, stay for the Toowoomba Experience!

Two weekends ago, Sandra, Kirra, Laiken and I ventured into Toowoomba for a Saturday eve of awesomeness and awakening (shell we say). We left Brisbane on the Saturday afternoon, and arrived a couple of hours later at our Motel. This Motel really was like one of them stereotypical American style Motels, where it looked like the mayor of the town would be in one of the rooms being attended to by one of his mistresses, and there was a murder in that room other there, and two people were currently planing a robbery in another room, and the swimming pool was in the middle of the complex....in the middle of the car`park! Sadly, that last one was all too true!



But the main reason that we were there was to see The Pink Floyd Experience at the Empire Theater. In short, they were pretty dam awesome, pretty decent cover band. Pretty tight. They did about an hour and a half of mixed songs, then after the intermission (and a few more drinks for me), they did their main event....Celebrating it's 40th anniversary, they did the Wish You Were Here album in it's entirety, (Pink Floyd's best album), before finishing off with a few other classics.





Just to get an idea of the epic light show:

The music was awesome, but my files are too big to put on here.

After the (3 hourish long) gig, Sandra and I weren't done for the night. So we decided to stay out for a few and see what Toowoomba had to offer. Well to summarize, Toowoomba is a fairly largish town about 2 hours west (inland) of Brisbane, the biggest of all the surrounding mining towns, a place where not too many tourist will venture to, so locals can get over excited (aka annoyingly clingy) to a random Englash guy and random German girl in their bars....Urmmm, it was an experience, I'd compare it to a night out in Bitterne or Millbrook. Never the less, we still had a fun night, even if we did have to endure the same repetitive story of how violent Toowoomba prison can get.....trust me, I didn't even ask, but that didn't stop me being told!!!!

But honestly since my last post I haven't really been up to too much, definitely nothing to really write home about, which makes writing this blog a little harder. But please stay tuned, I promise things are gonna get better, May's already shaping up to be a good month.
Still waiting on our visas. We spent most of the last weekends (since my last post) house hunting (there was one Saturday where we viewed 7 places), and on Saturday we move into our new gaff, in New Farm (pretty much the suburb we're living in now). I will be living with two German girls aka I will never be right again!

Oh and this guy took up residency in our front garden:


My netbook finally completely broke...finally....I may or may not have knocked it off my counter one time too many.....


Time for a replacement: My new Blog Maker:


But first having to take all the old files from my old netbook...a lot of music there!



And I finally got to watch a Saints game on a big screen...just in time to see Saints beat Pochettino's record from last season, against Pochettion's Spurs.




Seriously, my next post will be a more exciting read! Hold on tight!!!