eh mate, just relax, its all good, cept for a few things.

I can't believe we've already been in Cairns for five days, even though at times it seemed like i was bored out of my mind, it's been a pretty action packed last few days. today we went on our dive trip which was really cool. its not like in the commercials but for our first dive it was excellent. the only problem is that me and darcy both have crappy ears and so we couldn't equalize very well, as a result of going 11metres under water, my left ear is in serious dissrepair, but after a few days it should be good to go again. the first time we dove i have to say i didn't even really look at the coral or fish as i was just focusing on keeping everything together, paddling, breathing, etc. the second dive was a better and besides my throbbing ear was an awesome experience. the rest of the day was sweet too as we just sunbathed on the front of the boat when we weren't diving, they had a really good lunch and got a complimentary ride in a glass bottom boat as well as champagne and a live guitar performance from one of the crew members. on a crappier note, darcy's camera also tanked when we took it diving the first time, as a result we now do not have a camera and we have no pictures to show for the whole day of diving. and a new camera really isn't in the cards. cards aren't even in the cards.
We are officially blowing any chance at a budget out of the water, it seems like we're forking out money at every turn. even though we constantly are aware of trying to keep things cheap it just adds up so fast.
back to the happy notes, we have met a lot of cool people lately as we start to get into the swing of things, lots of people from germany, a few crazy hollanders, a canadian, and a bunch more on a lesser basis. i'm beginning to just go with the flow a bit more, which everyone says is what you have to do, in fact our hamburger is sitting on the floor right now getting warm as we decided to pop a squat here and do our interweb shannanigans again.
tomorrow darcy and i are takin off on the bus to mission beach, i think we're gonna have to skip a lot of stuff as there is so much to do and so little time, even though lots of one's time is taken by just figurin things out, checkin out the town, etc. i feel like we've finally made cairns a bit of a home and we know a few people. oh well, last night was a good time as we went out with a few people, apparently there were a bunch of horse races somewhere in cairns and so everyone was dressed up all fancy and out on the town. oh and my jeans got stolen, sweet i know, i had them hangin off my bed a few nights ago and the next morning they weren't there, i thought i had just packed them already and forgot about it, now three days later, when i wanted to wear them when we went out, i could not find them...they were my favy babies too. my back pack is working really well though, thanks mom and dad, very good choice.
the past couple days before today we took a bus tour up to Cape tribulation to check out the rainforests, turns out it didn't quite hit the adventure rating me and darcy were expecting, but it was still cool though, we made fun of the bus driver to get by the boring parts and other wise had a good swim (our first one) at myall beach, saw some crocodiles in all their different growth stages. they're really lazy animals but impressive nonetheless. we had a good river guide for that so that made it better as well. and did i tell you how much i love peanut butter and nutella toasted sandwhiches right now? so good. sorry, that was a far aside. for more details on the cape tribulation trip, become friends with darcy on facebook and read his note. this little nut cafe is closing and we're hungry, so its time to go make some sups and call some recent aquaintances to see what we do with the night. enjoy
tomorrow wer're