Kristopher's New Zealand Trip

We arrived in Australia on the 9th of March. Our plane landed in Brisbane which is halfway up the east coast. Week took a train from the airport to the centre of Brisbane. Then we spent the next hour looking for a hostel. After searching for ever we ended staying at a hostel that wasn't cheap, and was horrid. All the hostels were either really dumpy and expensive, or nice and outragously expensive. We spent 4 days in Brisbane deciding where we would be going for the next couple of weeks. After much delibration and talking to lots of people we decided on the Gold Coast, and more specifically Surfers Paradise. At the end of our 4th day in Brisbane we hopped on the train and went to the Gold Coast. When we arrived we started looking for a campground. There was not to many campgrounds but luckily we found one right on the beach for a reasonable price. After walking 30 minutes we got there. It is a pretty nice campground with a pool and an outdoor cooking area. We set up camp and just relaxed. The  second day we went out to town and went to a couple surf stores. After much deliberation Jordan and I both bought a surfboard. We walked back to camp and waited anxiously for the next morning when we would go for the first time. We woke super early the next morning and went down to the beach. the weather wasn't perfect but we were to anxious to surf to really care. After swimming out a bit we tried to get it going. For the larger part of the morning we really only could body surf the waves, not able to get up. By the end of the morning session we were standing up for a couple of seconds. But the end of our time here we should be getting quite a bit better at it.

Pictures coming up within a week hopefully