Thursday, before we left, we spent the morning digital processing our images. AKA an overload on Photoshop and some other program that edits photos – very useful, but hard! Hopefully I will get the hang of it by the end of my trip!
A few of us decided to spend the afternoon exploring the city of Mildura and getting pictures of all of the places we frequented: Coles (the grocery store), the Brewery, Kmart, and … more haha. We headed back to the hostel to eat some dinner. After dinner, I headed out with a few other girls to find some wifi at McDonalds. We closed McDonalds out, but continued to use their wifi outside. We were going to join the rest of our group at the local nightclub, but they closed at nine. What?!
Instead we played a drinking game back at the hostel, All Hail the Governor. If you’ve never played, it was awesome – plus, we were entertained by Leslie. She was hilarious. She only had a few glasses of wine, until she was posing with her wine box and glass. Haha. Needless to say she was feeling it in the morning we when got up and left for our trip.
Another girl, Becca, woke up and her eyes were swollen. Ouch. While the rest of us got our stuff together to head out, Neil took her to the doctor (he’s our dad away from home). She caught up with us later at a park where we took a pit stop.
We made it to Broken Hill around 2:30pm, where we checked into Mario’s Place. We explored the city a bit, and then we went to an old mine to get some photos. Obviously we had to be careful around the site. One girl slid down a hill of rocks while we were there. Luckily, she only got a few scratches and bruises. I think she’s a bit stiff now. Later on I heard she forgot her wallet back at Mildura as well. I spotted her for dinner, and I will probably do so for the rest of our trip.
After the mine, we traveled to Silverton, where Mad Max 2 was filmed. Speaking of Mad Max 2, I accidentally said that Mad Max was like Deliverance… I think. It’s actually more like Waterworld. Both are excellent. I recommend them both – you all should watch them!
Okay, back on task – I got some pretty good shots of the city and of the gorgeous sunset there. When the sun had finished setting, and we could no longer take any pictures, we headed to the local pub. Neil had some of us volunteer for the “test.” You had to pay $2 and tuck the tip of a large funnel in your pants, while balancing a potato on your forehead. The bartender ran down the line with a bottle of water, pouring water down the funnel. It was hilarious. The volunteers did get a shot of beer our of the deal – and wet pants of course.
After we finished our beers, we headed back to Broken Hill, where we grabbed some dinner and hit up the hotel’s pub. I headed to bed early, and slept hard, which isn’t surprising after a beer … or two. Haha. The “palace” is supposed to haunted, which might explain the wretched dream I had!
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