The next installment – I let my guard down

There is a lot of new stuff going on in the land of Daisy right now … stuff I want to blog about!!  But I feel like I should at least kind of finish this story – seeing as it is THIS story which serves as the foundation for a lot of the excitement in my current life.  (haha! current – as if this story happened like SO long ago and not just a couple weeks ago.)  We all know I’m a serial quitter so I’m going to resist quitting and give you the next installment.  But if you find there are like weird parts missing and a whole lot of “wickeds” thrown in – well don’t say I didn’t warn you.  :)

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So there we were – on a bench in Noosa’s national park staring at each other with disbelief as the reality of the situation sank in.  We had been deserted with nothing but one towel, the clothes on our back, our lil cameras, wallets and a dead cell phone.  It was late afternoon, we were a 30 minute walk from town, we were EXHAUSTED and both still bleeding from our escapade at the boiling pot.  BUT the good news is that we were NOT sights for sore eyes – oh no *wink* we still looked as FRESH as Daisies (haha – I couldn’t resist.)

Ok so we begged a ride into town – there was NO WAY we were walking and after being dropped off by the city center we were given directions to the nearest Hostel.  But GUESS WHAT??

THIS IS WHEN IT STARTED POURING RAIN.

No joke.  It started POURING and do you think we had an umbrella??

So we ducked into a nearby business to wait it out.  And waiting we did.  But the GOOD news is that this business happened to be a travel agency.  So there I am looking at all sorts of travel deals – like to Fraser Island, the Great Barrier Reef etc – and since we were already up the coast – it was as if it was a sign from above and the heavens opened up and (oh wait – they did!) So yeah – we weren’t prepared to do any bookings considering we didn’t even know where we were going to sleep that night but at least it was CONVENIENT!!  :)

Ok so the rain calmed down a bit and we headed over to the hostel only to find out it was booked.  Yeah – the hostel had NO VACANCIES!!  And it was at this point that we learned that every hotel in town would probably have no vacancies and I probably looked like I wanted to cry and the Random Stranger from LA said to follow him and he snuck me upstairs in the hostel and sent me to the girls’ showers (I know – that was a no-no …) but after a nice long hot shower that I wasn’t supposed to take – I felt a LIL bit better.

He took a shower too and then we met here (pic below) in the restaurant section of the hostel and ate dinner.

I’m not going to pretend like I wasn’t a bit grumpy.  And I also won’t pretend that the Random Stranger from LA didn’t have his work cut out for him as my companion.  :(  But I did try my best to be a good sport and by the time the Random Stranger from LA hunted down and caught a few wild and FRESH mangoes for my dessert in a nearby tree … well .. I mean come on – how cute is that?  I cheered up a bit.

UNTIL WE HAD TO WALK FOREVER TO THE NEAREST HOTEL ONLY TO FIND OUT THAT IT WAS BOOKED OUT TOO!!!

Blah blah blah this is the boring part where we had to walk and walk and walk and then we had to go buy deodorant, and a toothbrush and toothpaste and dental floss and blah blah blah they didn’t have what we needed at the first store … walk walk walk walk walk walk = grumpy grumpy grumpy Daisy!!!

Skip to the part where – FINALLY – we found a place to stay and he booked us into a nice hotel room with a huge jetted tub, and he drew me a bubble bath (omgosh – lol – SOMEONE didn’t know much about bubble baths *cough-randomstrangerfromLA-cough*- there were bubbles EVERYWHERE!!!  Like I’m not kidding I wish I had a picture because it was like the tub EXPLODED with bubbles.)  And yeah – we talked about our predicament – and even though I never really doubted it – looking at him, have I mentioned he has GORGEOUS brown eyes??  But yeah – I don’t know why but I trusted him.  And had from the moment I met him.  And even though we were in a terrible situation – even though I was stressed, grumpy, tired, etc – there he was taking care of me.   And even though that made me feel REALLY GUILTY (he didn’t ask for this situation – he didn’t even plan on my being with him!! I was causing him trouble yet he acted like I wasn’t an inconvenience at all and that he wanted me there!!) So yeah – I felt guilty but also reassured.  I started to let my guards down.  I knew it was all going to be ok.   Things happen for a reason.  And this little mis-adventure – well … all I could think about was that if I DID have to go through something like this – if I WERE about to embark on a crazy adventure – how lucky was I that it was with him??

Pretty dang lucky.

Amazing what bubble baths can do isn’t it?  :)

and OMGOSH I’ve made it this far WITHOUT a wicked!!!

Dang that’s pretty wicked.

The next day we made the decision to make the most of it – and booked a self-drive tour on Fraser Island since we were already so close.  :)  And VOILA!  We had 4 days ahead of us with no change of clothes, no make-up, nothing – and I was SO EXCITED!!!!!

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