The Last Night

After visiting “Lauren’s Special Place” I didn’t think the evening could get better. I was more than pleased to be proven wrong. Boyd, Lauren, Kirsty, Rachele and I hung out in Boyd’s room and had the most wonderful snack of wine, cheese, crackers, and honey-comb tim-tams (delicious!). We talked, laughed, reminisced before watching Death at a Funeral. Such a good night….well at least it was until I had to go back to my room at half past midnight.

I had packed over the entire weekend so I would not have to pack on my last night. I still had a fair bit of stuff from my desk and shelves to put in my luggage. Before going to bed I weighed my bags to discover I was nearly 5kg (approx 12 lbs) over my allowance –PANIC! I had already donated some clothes and given away some stuff to Boyd and Maddie. It was three in the morning when I began the process of going through my stuff weeding out stuff that I really needed for Indonesia and stuff I could live without. This included two frustrated skype-calls home…I didn’t get to bed until 5:30am and had to wake up at seven…not exactly I had in mind for my last night in Townsville.

Oh well, I have everything I need now and I was even able to send four small boxes home with my text books, notes, brochures, soccer shoes and some other miscellaneous goods. The weight limit was irrelevant anyways when I got the airport. Because I had to change my flight around and would no longer be checking my bags all the way to LA, I was not given my original baggage allowance of 70 lbs and was thus charged $100. Bitches.