Surfers Paradise! What an interesting weekend this was... March 6-7

Well this trip started out difficult even before it started... During the week before this weekend we were asking every Aussie with a car we knew if we could get a ride out to surfers so we wouldn't have to pay for the bus there and back. Just in case someone bailed on us we had back ups.  We knew we would probably need 2 drivers because there was 5 of us.  My room mate Brad said he probably would. A friend Sam said he would for sure but he could only take one. And a friend PJ said he would for sure but not until 3 pm on saturday because he had to work.  We thought we were sitting good until Friday. Brad said he didn't want to go anymore, then Friday night around 10 pm Sam said that he was really sick and had to go to the doctors tomorrow so he couldnt anymore... So all we had was this guy PJ who wouldn't be able to fit all 5 of us. So me and Jamie continued to search that night for another ride and we ran into our RA Wayde who said his gf and him were actually planning on going there in the morning, and he would ask her and let us know in the morning if we could get a ride.
    At 8am I got a text from Jamie saying Wayde could take 3 of us at 9 am. Perfect I thought. Well Around 8:30 am Regina gets a text from PJ saying that he actually has to work until 8pm so he is out... The bus we had to take if needed was leaving at 11 am... So Regina decided she wasnt going anymore because she didnt want to pay for the bus so Gina, Jamie, Jenna and I had to figure this out. Jamie and I decided to go with Wayde at 9am and Gina and Jenna would go on the bus at 11 am. The bus costs 30 dollars because we missed the cheaper one for 15.
   Well we all ended up getting there and so happy we did. Paradise Island is an awesome place. Its actually a real city with tall bulidings (which I actually havent seen in a month!) It was cloudy when we got there but we met the guys from st. cloud at the beach (they stayed the night on Friday as well) The waves were huge! A lot bigger than Byron Bay at least. The life guards were every where. We stayed there for a while then decided to go meet Jenna and Gina at our hostel to get ready for the night. We signed up for a pub crawl that night (mom and dad it is not as bad as it sounds) :) We got to go to 5 clubs/bars which all were really fun. One was The Bedroom which I LOVED because Sex and the City did one of their shows based of that club so I thought that was really cool! All in all it was a fun night!
   Until we got home from the bars.... Us four girls got a hostel  room to ourselves so we did not have to worry about our stuff getting stolen... so we thought... We got home around 1 am and realized money was stolen from our wallets.. 20 from Ginas, 50 from Jamies, and 150 from mine :( So sucky...
   We told the front desk the next morning and then talked to the manager... He said there was nothing really he could do since we didn't have travelers insurance...
   We were on the ground floor, had two doors. the front one that locks automatically when you leave and the porch door that had 3 locks (a bolt lock, a chain, and one on the handle) When we checked them when we got back they were all three still locked. The only way they could have gotten in was with a key.  The manager said he would check to see if any keys were signed out that night. Obviously the theif is not going to sign out the key so nothing is going to happen their...
   All in all we learned our lesson to lock our stuff in the drawers no matter if we have room mates we don't know or not. Kind of runied the weekend... but Paradise Island is still a really sweet city that i hope I can go see again.
    Today the 9th is FINALLY PURE BLUE SKIES IN LISMORE!!! first in awhile!! and of course I have class all day until 3... oh well still going to go to the pool once i am done!
   Sorry this is so long once again! I will put up more pictures from this weekend later!
      G'day mates :)