Murgatroid's Blog

This week I went to the Gold Coast, Queensland with five girlfriends for a couple of days. The Gold Coast is mostly famous for its beaches, its nightlife, Schoolies Week, and the theme parks.

Well, we have beaches, and we have nightlife (sorta) in Newcastle, and we are too old for Schoolies, so all we could do was go to theme parks!

Damnation *cough*

It was quite possibly the number one best Holiday I have ever had. Dreamworld on Monday was superhappyfuntimes, with the mega fast Tower of Terror, and the fun spinny Claw, and lots of thrilly rides, and OMIGOSH THE CUTE TIGER CUBS, but MovieWorld on Tuesday, I'm pretty sure made my year.

Not just my day, or week, but the whole freaking year.

It started off fantastic, with a rollercoaster called Superman Escape (a bunch of insanely fast, red-and-blue fun) and just got better as we ventured through the extreme awesomeness of the ScoobyDo Spooky Coaster (say that three times fast) and the Wild West Falls (which we went on about 7 times, in search of the perfect photo).

But there were two things that simply outshone everything else that happened that day, hell, this week (even the boxed extended trilogy of the Lord of the Rings movies, and the official replica of Professor Lupin's wand that I purchased)

1. We were walking down the main street, when one of my friends yelled (screamed) out "OH MY GOD IT'S BATMAN!!!" and literally jumped on him. The other girls all got photos hugging him, but I shyly walked up to him and asked if he could give me a high-five.

AND HE SAID YES.



And just when I thought things could not possibly get any more awesome, (and who could blame me for thinking that, since I had JUST HIGH FIVED A SUPER HERO) A dude dressed up as Austin Powers starts driving around in a golf buggy with a microphone saying that the parade was about to start, and to celebrate, he was going to give free Cornettos to people who answered a quiz question.

I desperately wanted to win a Cornetto.

I waited through as Fake Austin asked the first couple of questions, kicking myself everytime he asked one, cause I knew all the answers, until finally I couldn't contain myself, and the next time Fake Austin asked who wanted to answer a question, I jumped out from behind some randoms and screamed as loud as I could, "PICK ME!!!!!!"

And since when I'm loud, I'm really loud, Fake Austin simply could not ignore me, and he asked me the next question!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't remember much after this, Daffy Duck was in my face, Wonder Woman was in my face, my face was on the big screen, cause hey, a big camera was in my face, and the next thing I know, the Parade has started, and I have a Vanilla Cornetto in my hand.

Best. Day. Ever.
Of all time.

~~Murgie~~