CherryPopper

Over the weekend i headed up to the Gold Coast to visit my youngest sister who moved up there around the start of the year with her boyfriend. Ever since she has been nagging me to go up and visit her. I finally got sick of the nagging and gave in and booked the tickets.

Follow up:

I headed to the airport after work on Friday, got my boarding pass and walked to the gate. As i sat there and more people came to the gate it seemed that the "type" of people heading to the Gold Coast were quite... well I'll just give a few descriptions and you can come up with a name.

There were at least 5 very young expecting mum's wearing way too little clothes (the temp was still 16 outside), there was at least 2 older ladies with very sun tanned skin that looked like leather and most of the guys had mullets. I called my sister and asked her to "please explain" what i was walking into. She then explained that most of the people in and around the Gold Coast are of this high calibre.... i knew it was going to be a great weekend from then on.

We boarded the plane and i was lucky enough to get a seat next to twiddle Dee & twiddle dumber. They were expecting their to be free booze on a JetStar domestic flight and were quite pissed when i corrected them before they had a chance to ask the very disgruntled male air hostess. The rest of the flight was like a bad episode of bevis and butthead, stupid jokes with goofy little laughs. I was glad to get off the plane. My sister picked me up and I crashed at her place.

The next day we headed off to MovieWorld!!! I have been a number of years ago with my family but my sister doesn't remember much, what i remembered was that it was pretty lame. My memory was right it seems. We headed in and made our way to the "Police Academe Stunt Show" where they are apparently "all trained professionals"... I'd say they are out of work actors who know some slapstick moves. That was still as bad as i remember.

We walked around to the new batman ride and my memory of this wasn't that bad and since there was no line we just walked straight in. After a very cute tour guide did her little intro and then lead us to the evacuation tunnel another staff member jumped out and scared the shit out of her... that was the best part of the ride. The rest was just a lame movie sitting in a seat that moved, it was just a new movie, so much for new.

By now your probably thinking... your a grumpy old man... sometimes yes but i just feel sorry for the people who work there having to do the same act day in day out, cringe factor of 11/10.

Now on to the good stuff... the Roller Coasters. We walked past the Scooby Doo ride and seen that the wait was 40 mins!!! so far we hadn't waited 30 seconds for anything... So we headed for the new Superman Escape it does 0-100km/h in 2 seconds, bring it on. No waiting here either so we jumped on and strapped ourselves in, no lame story setup, just a line and get on the ride. You start out slow winding your way though the subway till you see the hole where we had seen a screaming mass shoot out of while walking around the park. You sit there for a few seconds and hear "superman" say to hang on tight... very tight and before your ass has a chance to tighten up your up in the air looking down and the next anus clenching bend. Like lupin its all over in a matter of seconds and its then that you realise the brown stains on the seat are from you, so we went again for fun. We then hit the lethal weapon ride and this one while a little slower is a lot more violent and throws you round like a rag doll, but still a heap of fun.

We had pretty much seen all the decent stuff at movie world so we left and had lunch at one place that got chased out of all other states except Queensland... Sizzlers!!!! Yummy cheese bread is all i remember about that place and while the cheese bread is still as good as ever i forgot about the people "all you can eat" places attract. I saw a chick hoeing into some soup and she spilt a little on her foot, she then licked it off her foot... LICKED IT OFF HER FOOT... WTF. Once we had our fill of ice-cream we left for a night out on the town.

The rest of the weekend was good fun just bummed around with my sister and her hot friends in the sun & seeing a few places along the coast. All up it was worth the pain of getting there.