A Millimetre? We'll use that in like, a morning

Today... sooooo much rain. It still hasn't stopped. Literally hasn't stopped raining heavily all day. In Brisbane, it pours this hard for maybe five minutes, then drizzles for another hour and stops.

Went shopping in Cairns Central, met up with a friend of mine named Mel for lunch (I owed her a sushi lunch) and talked about stuff in general. She's getting married later on this year, and she plus her soon-to-be-hubby just bought a house :D

Went to see Ice Age 2 in the afternoon, so basically spent the whole day inside Central, enjoying all its shopping-mall goodness. Ice Age 2 wasn't as bad as I was expecting, making me laugh out loud at some points. Just don't go expecting much and you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Heh, I'm realising that this isn't really a deep, philosophical post, but I'll continue anyway.

Went to HMV, used a gift voucher I got from my credit card points :) Got some Anime, and also a CD by Massive Attack called Collected. I've decided that their style of music is where I'd like to head... this is of course a tentative statement by me which can be retracted at anytime. On this CD is their immortal song, teardrop. You know, the one with the filmclip of the baby in the womb :S.

I just realised that I didn't tell you about Monday. On Monday, we went with some old friends, Alicia and Travis Clark to Port Douglas to have breakfast with the birds. For those of you unfamiliar with this tourist attraction, it's a service the Rainforest Habitat puts on - you have a beautiful buffet breakfast in the middle of an aviary, and all the birds, including ducks, lorikeets, parrots etc all come and hassle you for your food. It's brilliant, and then you get to walk around the park afterwards, feeding kangaroos, seeing koalas etc for awhile.

Hope everyone's going well, wherever in the world you mad folks are.

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Singin' in the Rain

Well, friends are back from AGMF, Jess's family's back from camping, everyone's back in Brisbane but me & Jess, we're up in Cairns, with rain coming down all around us.

Heheh, by the way, if you want to tease her about something, tease her about the fact that she's now playing mario party at any chance she gets - she has crossed over to the dark side and become a geek/nerd/thing. Anyway, I should probably get onto posting about other stuff.

Cairns is going well in lieu of the cyclone, apparently there was only one day or so that people were inconvenienced by the wind and stuff. Innisfail was really badly hit, so the hype that was given to how bad things are there is totally warranted - if you get a chance to give some money, please do, the people there really need it.

It's been great seeing old friends and everything, I really do appreciate being able to come up here to Cairns every now and again and touch base with people who consider me part of their family - my church, my friends and their families. The only thing that's been hampering things to do in Cairns (but I love it) is that it's been raining almost non-stop since we got here. The only time it didn't rain was Sunday morning, when we got up at 5:30 to get ready for the Easter Sunrise Celebration service on the esplanade, which was really cool.

Apparently all of this rain we're getting is due to the second cyclone which was following Larry - it's north of Cooktown, just creating a giant low all around these parts. Today's a real 'stay-indoors' day, with buckets just being thrown down from the heavens, and trust me, when the heavens throw buckets, they're gold buckets with silver handles, capable of holding several hundred litres. So later on we're gonna go rent some movies and then sit around watching them with some friends... It seems me and jess have come to cairns just to end up doing what we do down in brissie :P

-Fin-