[sorry if this is long]
Start destination: Blacktown area/ Time: 3hrs/ Distance: approx. 230kms/ Final destination: Currarong
that was the plan... this is what it became...
Start destination: Blacktown area/ Time: 3hrs/ Distance: ???/ Final destination: Little Bay
The goal was to spend a few days with some mates from uni during the holiday period @ the South Coast. The outcome was something completely different but still the trip of a lifetime.
It all started on tuesday morning... as per usual i was running extremely late and didn't finish packing until about 12 midday when really that would have been the ideal time to arrive at the venue but nevertheless, it all happened for a reason. Shortly after this I set off to pick up my closest uni friend Kara to complete the trip together, but not 2 mins in i realised i didn't have my street directory so i headed back and got it.
Finally i got to Kara's and we packed the car... you'd think we were staying for ages with what we had but we were only planning on staying just 1 night in order to get back in time for different plans at the end of the week. We set off to the local shops where we ran into my grandparents "the spend thrifts" who gave us their cinnamon doughnuts for the trip... sweeet.
1pm: We left the shops after filling up on petrol and hunger fuel, we set off on our journey down the first main highway. Continued onto the next main highway as directed by our online navigator "whereis.com" who by the way we will never use again. After quite some time and a lot of chatting Kara and i decided to check what the next turn would be. Not moments later our so called exit came up... and chatting away we didn't realise until we had passed it, we had just been talking about how crappy it would be if someone needed to turn around coz it was double lines and so we're pretty sure we jinxed ourselves. Illegally... we crossed the double lines and back tracked a lot of 'kms' and eventually got back to where we were supposed to be. Our vow from that point on was to slow down before any turn offs to make sure we were in the right place.
3pm-ish: Following our instructions we were excited to have finally come across the first of 3 supposed round-a-bouts... YAY!! but soon after this we started to see buildings and city life after only trees and sand and grass and nature which we were sure was what we needed to head towards. Looking at the names of upcoming places we found it impossible to resist laughing as one by one we noticed a suburb that we knew was nowhere near where we wanted to be. We continued to follow the road that we knew now was taking us in the opposite direction....
4pm: We pulled into maccas right near Sydney airport, called our mothers and decided that at this point there was honestly no hope of us finding our way with enough time to actually do something at the destination. We called our friends and decided to break the news... it went down well... not! lol our friends were like dude you guys are stupid it's like 3 roads and u just keep following them - how can you seriously get lost??? I decided it was probably a good idea to find someone's place to crash at so that we didn't have to go home and be completely disappointed about not getting to the beach. I called my cousin who lives reasonably close to the airpot/beach, but there was no answer so we set off to her place anyhow.
5pm: Having arrived at my cousins place in Little Bay half an hour before we came to the conclusion she was not there after ringing the doorbell multiple times. In order to lift our spirits and any hope in the idea of getting somewhere to sleep, i decided we should walk down to the beach and catch some rays & waves before the day was gone. On our return we rang the doorbell again (it is a four story apartment building by the way) but there was still nothing. Kara and i looked at each other and cracked up... this had to be the most spontaneous thing we'd ever done and it wasn't working out well. We walked to the doorbell one more time and at that moment my cousins flat mate walked out of the lift and stood pointing at us with an expression of surprise, she opened the door and said hello, what are you doing here? she welcomed us in and explained that Rebecca (my cousin) was actually visiting her father and so it would just be us and her for the night.
From this point on we took the dog for a walk, ordered pizza, stayed up late eating junk food and then headed off to bed. In the morning we were woken up by the one and only Harry... Becs dog, who rammed himself into our bedroom door so many times that it eventually swung open and he jumped on the bed to greet us good morning. The rest of the day was so laid back... like a real holiday, we watched tv, went to the beach, slept on the beach, went in the spa and just plain chilled.
The trip home only took us 1 hr... imagine that - and thus completes the re-telling of our epic fail journey btw my car remained fine for the entire trip and then would not start at Kara's place just 10mins from my house.
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| At least we got to the beach... Little Bay |
2 Corinthians 4: 16-18
For this reason we never become discouraged. Even though our physical being is gradually decaying, yet our spiritual being is renewed day after day. And this small and temporary trouble we suffer will bring us a tremendous and external glory, much greater than the trouble. For we fix our attention, not on things that are seen, but on things that are unseen. What can be seen lasts only for a time, but what cannot be seen lasts for ever.
God Bless
Elleness
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