Ronald en Hester in Australië en Azië

New pictures online

It’s a little bit quiet from our side of the world, mainly because we were working our ass off at the boatshow last week, but now we uploaded some pictures for you guys to check out. We’ll  put a nice story online this week, so keep on looking

'Work' Part II

We don’t have a lot of exciting things to tell you this time, but I’d just wanted to say I’ve found a job as well! Yeay.

Last Sunday I had a trial shift at restaurant Calabash at Sanctuary Cove, which is a 15 minute drive from Upper Coomera. After a few hours of work I was hired The manager said she thought I was very professional, pretty funny cause I’ve only had 3 months experience in hospitality. Anyway, she’s put me on the schedule for about 35 hours a week, so that’s good news. Yesterday I worked an 11 hour shift…very exhausting but good money.

Sanctuary Cove is some sort of village with lots of palmtrees for rich people with million dollar-boats. The general way of transportation is on a Club Car (golfkarretje) and that’s pretty funny but also very ridiculous to see. Rich lady’s wearing lots of make up, wearing all Gucci and Prada, carrying a Shihuahua or whatever (those stupid little dogs) on a Club Car of which the seats are covered with a tigerprint-fabric. Fortunately it’s not only this kind of people that visit the restaurant where I work!
Next week there is a big Boat Show in Sanctuary Cove, from what I’ve herad that’s gonna be incredible busy. I’m gonna do a 60 hour week or something…The restaurant manager needed more people to help during the Boat Show, so Ronald is gonna join us! With no hospitality experience at all he is gonna carry out plaids Ronald is almost done now with his webdesigning-job. At the moment he is in Brisbane, hopefully he’ll get another assignment.

That’s all for now…
Enjoy the long Hemelvaart weekend in NL!

Kiss!
Ron & Hes

Work!

It’s time now to earn some money instead of spending it all! It’s been almost 10 weeks since we left Adelaide and we’ve sort of planned our trip so that we would have to find a job by the time we got to the Gold Coast where Luke lives. Last Sunday we drove to Luke. Luke is a friend of Ronald’s dad and stepmom, he is Dutch but he lives in Australia, in Upper Coomera (near Brisbane) to be precise. We are welcome to stay at his place as long as we like, which is great! Luke has a nice big house, we even have our own bathroom here, wow!

After we had a look around in the area, we started to look for a job. Ronald found himself a job straight away !! He is designing a website and he works at home. Earning big bucks!! For me it’s a little bit more difficult this time…it’s low season and a lot of cafe’s/restaurants don’t want to hire people for just a few months. I’ve handed in my resume at quite a few places now, but haven’t heard anything of them so far. I also applied for a job at one of the many themeparks around here, but I guess I have to be patient (which I am not!). Tomorrow I do have an appointment with someone, that is to sell cosmetics in Brisbane…I’ll see!

We´re planning to stay here for about a month (maybe a little bit longer), so if you feel like sending us some mail, this is our address:

61 Vivacity Drive
Upper Coomera QLD 4209
Australia (ofcourse…)

Last but not least: there are 7 new short movies online under ‘video’s', have a look!!

Kiss! Ronald & Hester

I believe I can fly

A ‘short’ update…I’ll only write about the highlights!

We’ve done something really cool, we flew an airplain!!!
We heard from someone that in the Town of 1770 (called after the year James Cook set foot on land here) we could do a very good joyflight for a relatively small amount of money. So, we went there, found a phonenumber to call and the next day we could fly!!

We met Bruce the pilot on a grassy airstrip somewhere. The plain was a Cessna, suitable for 4 passengers. Together with Ivy (another Dutch girl) we took off…wow, what a feeling in such a small plain. The view was great from above, the coastline, the lighthouse, the small bays, the inlets, the islands, really amazing. Bruce asked us if we liked rollercoaster rides, and after we all agreed on that through our headsets (very professional)…oh my god…he let the plain lower in altitude very quickly….my stomach was turning around! We landed on a beach somewhere and from there it was my turn to control the plain!!! That felt so strange, being able to move in three directions. Cool experience! After another landing on a beach, on an island this time, it was Ronalds turn to fly. Bruce let him take off!!! I haven’t seen Ronald scared very often, but now I did!! We didn’t crash Bruce did some aerobatic trics again and after one and a half hour is was time to get back to the airstrip. What a great flight!!!

Bruce asked us where we were gonna spent the night and when we answered that we wanted to go sleep in the car on a parkinglot somewhere, he said ‘why would you wanna do that?’ and offered us to come over to his place. So we did! His house was on top of a hill and overlooked Agnes Waters (a town). We slept on his veranda and woke up when the sun rose over the ocean…

From Agnes Waters/Town of 1770 we headed to Bundaberg. We paid a visit to the Bundaberg Rum Distillery there, what a smell! But after the tour we could taste two drinks each. Yummie! But it was at midday and we hadn’t had lunch yet, hmmmm….

Now we are in Tin Can Bay, where we fed a wild dolphin this morning!!! The dolphins come out to the marina every day ’cause they know they’ll get some fish there. We could just walk into the water and let the dolphin eat the fish out of our hands! That was fantastic.

Ok, my time here in the library is up! There are some new pictures!!

Love, Ronald and Hester