Cairns Nightlife

Even after all our exciting adventures during the day, the group didn’t seem too tired the second night to see what the Cairns nightlife had to offer.  We all went our to dinner at this restaurant/bar.  The food was surprisingly good which was a relief considering I was beginning to give up on food in Australia already.  After dinner and a few free rounds of beer (the bar staff was really friendly and generous might I add) the restaurant turned into a club sort of environment.  It was cool to socialize and get to know some of the other people in our group.  I found myself laughing and having a great time, especially when they started the fish races – yes fish races! It seemed quite odd but everyone went along with it.  I’m not sure if this is typical in Australia but no one else seemed to think it was that odd.  They had gold fish representing different countries and people bid on them to put into the race.  The person/fish that won the most races won the prize.  Then we headed back to our hostile to check out the nightclub there.  I thought it was a perfect time for me to buy a hair dryer with an Australian plug – an investment that would be beneficial throughout my trip.  I'm sureit was completely essential to stop by the convenience store at 1am to get it as well.  Then we arrived at Gilligan’s’ – downstairs they have a bar nightclub which seemed to be packed.  I was honestly pretty tired at this point and although I was enjoying the Australian bars I know there is more to come and call it a night.  We still have lots planned and I didn’t want to get sick.  From the looks of it though, we have a really fun group and it’s going to be an awesome 5 months!