More Poppy Goes to Australia!
Poppy: This is the next day. We went past fields of sheep on our way to the nature-thingy-bobber.
Beck: Bonorang wildlife park.
Nick: Boi-oi-oi-oi-oing.
Poppy: Yeah, so we went to Bonorang, and saw some kangaroo, this one was sleeping. The whole place smelled like shit.
Nick: Muthafucka kangaroo wheeeee...
Beck: I took the excellent picture of the Kanga-poo.
Poppy: There was this one bastard roo...we had these little food bags to feed them, and this kangaroo was like snuffling at the bag, and it grabbed the bag away with its little paws and ate the paper bag, not the food.
Poppy: Hehe, and in this pic Matt looks like he's getting head. That kangaroo must have gotten a decent sum of money for that act.
Nick: He looks like he's getting head.
Poppy: You're just repeating everything I’m saying. Why don't you suck a fuck?
Nick: How exactly does one suck a fuck?
Poppy: Would you like me to show you?
Nick: Yes I would.
Poppy: (Pauses) Well I don't know how, YOU are the suckafuck.
Poppy: This roo looks like is putting its paw in Nick's hand. We tried to get the cockatoo to say "Suck a fuck."
Nick: But it wouldn't say it. All it would say was "G'day cobber."
Poppy: And "Hello Cocky."
Beck: And we fed Pepsi Blue to a wattle bird.
Poppy: But we didn’t get any pics of it.
Nick: It was more important for you to get 15 photos of Tassie devils.
Poppy: You know that hole you put pie in?
Nick: You mean my pie hole?
Poppy: Shut it.
Nick: So why DID you take so many pictures of the devils?
Poppy: They made cool sounds.
Nick: Were you hoping to catch the noises in the pictures or something?
Poppy: ...Yes.
Tasmanian devils (More...)
Poppy: The devils wouldn't eat the food on the ground, they only wanted the food that the other had. That way they could fight over it. It was like watching siblings fight.
Nick: Or me 'n Matt. We can never have nice things.
Poppy: There was a little tiny bird in this tree, I think he was looking for some coconuts. They have some beautiful LOOKING birds, but all of them seem to squawk instead of sing. Very odd. I got a stuffed Kookaburra toy, when you squeeze it it laughs like the Joker from "Batman the Movie."
Poppy: That night, we went to this goth event called the Coven, so I was able to do Matt and Nick's makeup.
Nick: I had makeup on.
Poppy: Matt looks evil.
Nick: He was like, "Blerrg, I was sick in a bucket last night.
Eliza's boyfriend John
Poppy: So we got to the bar, sat in chairs with big crosses on them and hung out with wonderful gothy people.
Nick: All whom had greasy black hair.
Poppy: Here's Nick and Beck. Nick's pissed. We made Nick a cardinal that night.
Nick: Nick got much free beer.
Poppy: Cardinal Puff is a wonderful drinking game. It goes like this:
How to Become a Cardinal
Hold a full glass of beer up and say, "This is my first Cardinal Puff of the evening."
Take a deep drink, put the glass down. On the surface of the table, tap the fingers of your right hand, then tap the fingers of your left hand. Stomp your right foot then your left foot. Do a little dance and say, "And a shimmy. This is my second Cardinal Puff Puff of the evening."
Take two deep drinks, and put the glass down twice. Tap your right hand twice, and your left hand twice. Stomp with your right foot twice, stomp with your left foot twice. Do two little dances and say, "And a shimmy and a shimmy. This is my third and final Cardinal Puff Puff Puff of the evening."
Take three deep drinks (finishing the glass), put the glass down three times, tap three times with each hand, stomp three times with each foot, do three little dances, and say, "And a shimmy, and a shimmy, and a shimmy."
Hold your glass up and say, "Once a Cardinal, always a Cardinal!"
If at any time you make a mistake, either verbally or in actions, you have to refill the glass and start over.
Nick: And I said "And a shuffle" instead of "And a shimmy" and everyone thought I was joking. It made me sad. In the end I felt like saying "And a shiffle." It tastes like burning.
Poppy: This drinking game requires the long-lost skill of remembering stuff, to avoid having your glass refilled.
Nick: I thought the point WAS to have your glass refilled again and again.
Beck: Note Nick's slow downward spiral.
Nick: My God, I'm looking a bit sweaty there.
Poppy: Nick looking real pissed.
Nick: What a dramatic turn-around.
Poppy: Nick took Cardinal Puff Puff to a whole new level. Nick and Beck are fighting over me. It’s pretty flattering.
Poppy: This is the best pic of them all. Here's Nick trying to eat the wax from the candles on the table. But the wax kept hardening before he could get it into his mouth, so he kept scooping up more. Was it to impress the girls?
Nick: Did it work?
Beck: Word.
Poppy: Uh, sure. After the Coven, we walked back to Nick's....Since three of the four travellers were pissed, everyone tried to climb a fence, then walked along a cement barrier.
Beck: I kept my balance pretty well.
Poppy: This is where Beck is jumping off.
Beck: I look like I'm flying.
Poppy: Beck has supernatural flying powers.
Nick: I think I was sick on the way home but I gave everyone smiles and like 15 minutes warning. "I'm gonna be sick okay...not just yet...oooh, here we go..." But I bounced back and later made everyone egg 'n bacon muffins. Apparently everyone likes them.
Beck: Well yeah, except for the bacon part. That night I saw Nick break an egg on his head.
Beck: We did rock-paper-scissors for the privilege of who got to sleep next to Poppy.
Poppy: Actually it was for who got to sleep on the couch.
Nick: So it was for the privilege of who WASN'T going to sleep next to Poppy.
Beck: The rules weren't very well defined.
A week later.....
Poppy: Now that the vacation is over I realized how much I really do miss Australia (not just the vacation part). I am working on becoming an Australian resident and I should hopefully be back there permanantly in early to mid 2004. I have only been back about a week, but here are the top 10 things I miss about Australia:
10. Hearing "No worries" 5 million times a day
9. Nick's sorry excuse for pick-up lines
8. "Aussie Aussie Aussie! Oi Oi Oi!"
7. Cherry Ripe and custard
6. Good times, good times - "There are two penguins taking a shower together...."
5. How clean the country is
4. Driving on the left side of the road
3. Funny meanings for words like "Bush" and "Root" and words like "Ute" and "Cobber"
2. Matt and Nick
and the #1 reason is...
1. Beck and her sweet sweet arse
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