Randomness... with Owen and Kaitlyn

I just returned from another night of randomness with Owen and Kaitlyn. These happen remarkably often and typically include a trip to some restaurant, like Maccas (Mc Donalds which is open 24 hours a day on the South Side of Rocky). A bit about them: Kaitlyn is a Red Frog so we met at one of the College parties the first week. Red Frogs attend many of the parties, offering a place to talk, freezer pops, and donuts as well as red frog gummies. Their goal is to provide support for those who aren't drinking and are connected with local churches. Although I met her there I had not talked to her until I saw her at church. Owen: He lives three doors down and I met him shortly after he moved in. He joined some of our hallway parties which are held very close to his doorway but I really began to know him after one night's experience. I was wandering the halls about one on a Saturday night not feeling like going to bed when he knocked on the kitchen door to be let in. The front doors close at 10 and although everyone on College's key's open the doors to all buildings, he never carries his. Since he wasn't ready for bed and neither was I, we started talking and I found out he had gone to COP youth group and was planning to go to church in the morning. I asked to go along, before I realized he had a motorcycle, and enjoyed it. We met Kaitlyn there, hung out afterwards and started our random nights. Often they consist of movies (at the College or the cinemas), Maccas, and random other things. Thursday nights have become our night to hang out although Saturdays after youth group and Sundays after evening church also are hang out times. An example of a night: the most recent in my memory...tonight.
Tonight, after church at COP, finished everyone (about 25 youth/Uni students) headed to Nandos. Kaitlyn was nice enough to pick me up since I slept through church. I was very tired from 6.5 hours of scuba diving in the pool and having to use either a regulator or snorkel at all times. Every night about 10:30 and on the weekends the gates to the college lock forcing people to drive through the Uni. Although that sounds like an easy trip it's a bit out of the way and includes 7 speed bumps. However, it's possible to get picked up at the gate which includes walking through a small gulley with a few logs and high grass. Usually it's no problem, however the flashlight on my phone wouldn't turn on so I went through in the dark. My flip-flop fell off leading into a few minute search for it. Finally I arrived at the gate and then at Nandos. Dinner was a chicken wrap and lots of talking. We left at close to decide what the three of us where going to do since everyone else had wandered off. Owen gave me a ride back to College on his motorcycle while Kaitlyn met us there. Usually I wear the black helmet but tonight I got the red one... one slight problem. There is a visor on the red one which catches wind very easily so as we were driving along I felt my helmet rotate up. By the end I learned how to ride with it but I think next time I'm going to steal the black one again :) We arrived back and considered our next plans. Since I had never been to Mount Archer, a mountain about 10 min away from Uni overlooking Rockhampton, we agreed to go up there. The mountain is very beautiful and has a great view of the city. It's very windy so after a while it was time to get steamers.

Owen had never had one and Kaitlyn had only tried mine from a few days ago. Here steamers aren't common things so although the McCafes can make them, I have to explain how to. The price also changes based on who is working. Tonight they counted as teas at A$3.10 each but last time it was A$2.50 and the first time it was only 60 cents. Either way they are very tasty and get weird looks from the cashiers. We each ordered a different flavor but of course we had to try them all. Near the end of our exchange to try to tell which flavor we liked best and if we could tell the difference, the workers were starting to look at us a bit funny. Needless to say, we did switch about 10 times each before picking a flavor to drink. In the end, Owen ended up finishing all of the drinks though on the way back to College. Since Kaitlyn was tired and needed to wake up before driving home we looked at the stars. They were much brighter than last night which was the first time I had seen the Southern Cross. Unfortunately, the Southern Cross and sometimes Orion's belt are the only constellations they know and the Dippers aren't visible. I decided it would be fun to play the haha game. We played it at Student Life (the Christian group at Uni) but one small piece was missing. It's important to play the game whenever you are close to tired, often done at sleepovers. We were tonight so we arranged ourselves on the ground as best as we could with our heads on each others stomachs. The game is much easier with 4 people or more cause a triangle is hard to form with bodies and leaves arms awkwardly in the middle. Either way, we played a few rounds of the game which is very enjoyable to wake Kaitlyn up. Then it was off to bed for her, study for Owen, and blogging for me. That's the end of another night for the three of us. Next on the roster: camping and canoeing on Thursday with a few additional people added. Well I'm off to shower and make sure I don't have any tics on me (apparently Owen had one from the grass somewhere). More to come soon.