Pub Crawl

I decided last minute to do the campus pub crawl. They had buses leaving at 3 and 4 pm to go to the bars and drink. Most people started pre drinking at 2 pm so at noon. I didn't which made the night more expensive. Drinking is definitely a huge part of the Australian culture. 

I did the 3 pm crawl and didn't really know anyone else when the crawl started. I ended up meeting a bunch of Norwegian people right away and basically hung out with them the entire time. There was actually a good mix of people there. When we got on the bus to go to the next pub there were these Brazilian people that would bang on the roof and shout futbol (soccer) chants. Seven Nation Army was a popular one chanted. Everyone dressed up like Waldo and we had group leaders that were dressed up like wizards. The wizards also had these Australian chants that were similar to army chants that we did.

The pubs themselves were alright. A couple were dive bars and they are the first dive bars I have seen here. Most were kind of fancy. I asked the bar tender at one what the cheapest mixed drink they had was and she told me water. I ended up getting a $8.50 whiskey and coke. They had a swimsuit competition at one of the pubs and that is the 2nd time in the short time I have been here that I have seen that done at the bar. 

At the end of the night, I ran into three Australians. They told me they swam 12 hours from Brisbane to go to the pubs in Gold Coast. Brisbane is really flooded still so I don't know how they did drive though. One guy tried to swap shirts with me cause I had the waldo shirt on still. We swapped but then I realized that I couldn't get on the bus home unless I was wearing a Wally shirt. These Australians had it in their heads that Americans don't like Australians for some reason. I thought it was the other way around so I guess we were both wrong.