So after the most luxurious experience of my life I took a 13 hour Greyhound bus ride up to Cairns. Surprisingly it wasn’t actually that bad. We watched two movies on the way (Get Smart and The Lake House) and slept a lot. In Ciarns we stayed at Dreamtime which was a cute, comfy little hostel with hammocks, which of course Ally inadvertently fell asleep in until she was awakened at 3am by pouring rain. Because we got in at 2am we only had one real full day in Ciarns, which was hot hot hot. But I soaked it up knowing that I am coming home to snow. We walked around the cute little town, had an amazing lunch at a cute cafe, shopped, went to a museum of local Australian art, and down to a lagoon where we dipped out feet and wrote lists. It was a nice, relaxing and very hot day, and a great way to end an amazing vacation. The next day we spent our whole day in transit, getting very familiar with airports.
Fun fact: all through Australia we saw this fast food chain called Hungry Jacks with the exact same logo as burger kind. I just assumed this place had ripped off burger king’s logo, then I found out that it actually is Burger King, but they couldn’t name it that because there is a restaurant in Australia named burger king that refused to sell the rights to the name. Way to have a spine and not sell out to corporate giants aussies!
