Alice Springs

Sunday 24 October 2010

So, the walls here are paper thin as well. We were rudely awakened by a group of hyper screaming girls. I mean, these girls were really SCREAMING...a lot. They would count to 3 or something and all join in. After the first few times, a couple guys joined in. All this was at 1:00 am. A while later, they calmed down, and a new group of people would go stomping through the hallway or talk loudly, or sing, or do whatever they could do to make noise. It was as if they were afraid not everyone in the hostel could hear them. Well, they needn't be concerned.

At just after 4:00, we got up to get ready. A lot of people were still up. I guess it didn't help our hostel is right next to a bar. Because we had to leave so early, we had to get a taxi to the airport. I know we didn't stay here long, but it was the only way to get to our next destination. Alice Springs. Because of the time, we got a surcharge. So fun.

We got to the airport really early again, and waited. There was a camera crew interviewing people on our flight. They actually filmed us boarding the plane. Alison and I saw a flash as we went through. We may be famous!

During the plane ride, I tried to sleep. I closed my eyes, rolled my head on one side, slept, rolled to another side, woke up, rolled to another side. I have pains in my neck from every angle. We arrived in Alice Springs and had to switch our clocks again 1.5 hours different from Adelaide. So weird. We followed the instructions of where to go, but no one was there. We waited a while, and someone told us we needed to be somewhere else. Okay.

We stood outside. In the outback. That's right! In the Outback!

The bugs here outnumber people 20:1 or something like that. So we were constantly flailing our arms around. It wouldn't have been so bad if they just landed on us, but they flew right in our face! They come in every direction! Because we arrived so early, the rooms were not ready, so we put our luggage in storage and asked for a map. The hostel guy was really good. He showed us the three points of interest in Alice Springs. Our main goal for now is FOOD! We were so hungry. We went to a place, but couldn't order lunch until 11:00. We were there around 10:30, so we had to wait. After lunch (which was huge and made us feel sick for eating too much), we walked around. We decided to go up a hill that overlooks Alice Springs. At first, we weren't going to do it, because the outback is filled with the most dangerous animals on Earth. Then we decided it was the only attraction we hadn't done and, quite frankly, we had the time. We carefully walked up the hill to the top. It was a better view than I expected. Then we climbed down. It was SO HOT! We went through a couple shops and then went back to our hostel to get our key. In our room, we have to slam the door to close it properly. Won't that be fun tonight!

We basically played games until an appropriate time to go to bed. We though 7:00 pm would be appropriate. Just remember that we have been travelling a lot in the past couple days, have been doing all kinds of things, and have been changing time zones almost daily. We are really messed up with time and are really tired. So don't judge us too harshly.