Monday, 3rd May 2010 - Labour Day

Labour Day or Labor Day is an annual holiday celebrated all over the world that resulted from the labour union movement, to celebrate the economic and social achievements of workers. The majority of countries celebrate Labour Day on May 1, and it is popularly known as May Day and International Workers' Day, while some celebrate on the first Monday of September.




The celebration of Labour Day has its origins in the Eight-hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest.



Celebrating the Australian labour movement, the Labour Day public holiday is fixed by the various state and territory governments, and so varies considerably. It is the first Monday in October in the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales and South Australia. In both Victoria and Tasmania, it is the second Monday in March (though the latter calls it Eight Hours Day). In Western Australia, Labour Day is the first Monday in March. In both Queensland and the Northern Territory, it is the first Monday in May.

Saturday, 1st May 2010 - SPEEDING FINE

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So not happy. Got an email from my Dad. When I hired a car in Victoria, months ago, it appears I did 9kmp, yes only 9kmp over the limit and they have fined me $149. How disgusting is that. I am not happy in the slightest. I only hope it does not I get points added to my UK licence.

Thursday, 29th April 2010 - Glee

So Claire told me about Glee ages ago and very kindly sent me some of their music. This week I managed to catch up. I hired Glee Season 1. Having not seen it before I had no idea what to expect. But I loved it. It was great. It was like High School Musical but only better. Loved it. Caught up with the whole of Season 1 ready for Season 2 premier tonight. Get in! ! !

Tuesday, 6th April 2010 - The Girl with Dragon Tattoo

I finished girl with the Dragon Tattoo with morning. It was great. Only took me two weeks to read it. I went straight out and searched Brisbane for the cheapest copy of the next book in the Millennium Trilogy. Then I discovered that the cinema around the corner from me was showing the movie adaptation of the book.


Well was I disappointed? Yes. It was in Swedish or something like that. With subtitles. If that was not bad enough they missed out loads of important stuff from the book. Seriously not impressed.

Saturday, 3rd March 2010 - Mortan Island

Mortan Island is just off the coast of Brisbane. You have to get the MICAT to the island. We booed ourselves on an adventure tour. We started off with jumping into out wetsuites and going for a guided snorkel tour of the wrecks in water of sunken ships. These act a reef for sea life. It was great. There was loads to see. We was given bread to feed the fish. I got scared. There was loads of them and they was in a frenzy. Lol. I kept dropping the bread.


I managed to see two Sting Rays swimming along the bottom of the sea floor. That was really great. There was a turtle swimming about but I missed seeing that, sadly.



After the snorkeling we went inland for some 4WD'ing. It was bumpy but we was in a massive coach so was not too bad.



To end we went to 'The Desert'. A massive sand plain with some massive dunes. We jumped on some wooden sheets and projected ourselves down the dunes. It was really good, but scary. I got a mouthful of sand. In fact sand got everywhere. But still was a really good day. After that we headed back to Brisbane.

Thursday, 1st April 2010 - Nine

So I booked some tickets to see nine (a movie) outdoors in Brisbane's south bank. Oh what a bad bad bad idea. First off. The movie was a real flop. It was so boring. Then it started to absolutely throw it down. I got soaked and thought that was excuse enough to go, despite being only ½ way through the movie.

Thursday, 1st April 2010 - White Water World

Between Brisbane and the Gold Coast is a cluster of theme parks. One of them is White Water World. I have been desperate to go since I heard about the park. Months ago. Today I got to go. It was great. They had loads of rides that literally made you just laugh out loud. There was the Green Room which was my personal fav. You get into a blow up dingy and are ejected into a massive funnel. It was really scary because you think you are going to come out. Really really great.