it's been a long day, mister!

over it
Originally uploaded by I like fireflies.

so now i'm going to tell you about the two train incidents...
1. the lady that we stayed with in brisbane was kind enough to drop us off at the train station. it was a sunday and a bit quiet. no big deal right? we had about five minutes until the train was to arrive. now since it was sunday the ticket counter was shut so we had to use the automated ticket machine. no big deal right? WRONG! the machine only took coins and between the three of us we only had about six of the twenty four dollars we need for all day passes. we started to panic and run all over the train station asking people to trade cash for change. we had two minutes left...we are still rounding up change as we are throwing it into the machine as the train is coming. we here it down the tracks...we are freaking out! we still have two tickets to go. the train stops and we are still pumping coins into that stupid machine...yelling...laughing...trying to get the passes before the train starts going again. let's just finish by saying that as soon as the last pass printed out, we were running to get on the train and as soon as we did the doors shut and off we go. talk about an adrenaline rush!
2. fast forward to the end of the day. it's about an hour train ride to where we are staying from the city...so we get cozy. so we are sitting there listening to our music, reading and just having a jolly ole' time! we have no idea what time it is cause none of us have watches and apparently we forgot that our cell phones told the time. at any rate, time flies and all of the sudden we are at a stop and i ask which stop is this...christina flies up and runs to the door as she realizes that this is our stop. tammy and i are trying to round up all our stuff as christina is screaming at the door and pushing all the buttons in the vicinity including the emergency button...she gets the door open and runs outside only to run back inside cause she realizes we are not going to make it out. so there we are in an empty train, having just missed our stop and practically peeing our pants with laughter. needless to say we went to the next stop and waited a half hour until the train went back to our stop. this photo was taken as we were waiting for the train to go again. good times!