Lag B'omer

It's a long story and I have time. So' here it is. Thursday afternoon I went to Avis to rent the car for he trip, although a carolla was reserved I pulled out n a camery, a red 2006 camery with 2000 kilometers on it. Anyway I brought it back to yeshivah to load but the car that we went to Avis in ran out of gas on the way back so I had to bring them some gas. We loaded the car and at about 8:45pm we pulled out.

One hour in to the trip we made our first stop and a branch of JB HI-FI. They are really popping up everywhere. We ran around the car snapped some pictures and went on our merry way. This continued for the next 12 hours with alternate drivers and sleepers. Being that it was the 32 of the omer for most of us we still couldn't listen to music but, we had some comedy to keep us entertained and awake.



At about 9:00am on Friday we arrived in Brisbane were we spent Shabbos. We immediately went to mikvah davened and prepared for Shabbbos.





There was no minyan Friday night but we had a nice one Shabbos day. I conducted the Friday evening services as well as shachris and haftara.

Motzie Shabbos we went to Rabbi Jaffe's home, the other rabbi from the shul we don't goto. We enjoyed a wonderful Melava Malka and we watched Agent Emes volume 3 on a big screen, it was great. After that we went for a tour of the city and stoped at 7-11 for something to eat and drink.








Then we went back to our dilapidated unearthly excuse for a house {if my grandmother say that house I guarantee you she would have it knocked down. I only have a picture of the outside because I don't want you to feel that bad for us.



The next day, Sunday we didn't know what to do so we decided to aimlessly drive around and find something todo. So, we got on to the freeway and saw a sign that said Herschel St and I liked the name so I pulled off the freeway and got a picture. We then went back on the highway and saw a sign for Sunshine Coast it sounded good so we decided to go. Along the way there were many interesting things that you could see in the pictures below including a guy drinking beer driving a car at 110kph with a baby in the back. We saw the sights and came back home.






The next morning we got off to an early start and were at Bribie Island by 10:30 after davening and all that. We rented a boat and made our way around the ocean for about 3 hours. Then we headed for Mullumbimby. Now, let me explain what Mullumbimby is. It's a "city". Now we have all heard off cites that are in the middle of nowhere. Oh, not our Mullumbimby, this is on the outskirts of nowhere this place made Louisville look like Manhattan.




Along the way we made a few stops and different interesting places and then took the scenic route which is 7 kilometers of dense forest oh, and it was pouring rain like it only could in a g-d forsaken distant property such as Mullumbimby. What was interesting as you can see in the picture below is that the front window has almost zero visibility but, the back window was dry!!! We lost satellite positioning for a bit on the way and cell phones were out for like a half hour. When we couldn't find the party we had to drive back 5 kilometers to get a signal on our cell phones, but, after much effort we finally made it.






The party was great and I met some really nice people after 2 or 3 hours of partying we decided to make our way back to Sydney. The trip was pretty uneventful after arriving safely daving sleeping and cleaning the car we brought it back with no complications, though they were curious how I put 3000 kilometers on the car in such a short period of time. But instead of answering in an answer for I asked a question. Why is it called mileage if it's kilometers? She said she didn't know.So, I said I didn't know how I got so many kilometers.




P.s.For the answer to the Lag B'omer question previously asked see the coments on it.