Ramble On: Hazel Nuts Suck Too

Man, I hate brazil nuts!!! They taste like dirt and are big and clunky! Almonds on the other hand are delightful. They are so nice and delicious. They are shaped like a tear drop because they are what angels weep. I don't remember what I told you last so if I repeat anything too bad for you :P Sunday I didn't do much of anything other than take a bike ride with Andrew and plan out my hiking excursion for Monday. I'm suppose to go on a day long bike ride with Andrew next Sunday so hopefully that goes better than this time is all I can say for my butts sake.

Monday I took a bus and then a train out to the Glass House Mountains to hike around because Monday was a public holiday. Guess what the holiday was.....the Queen's Birthday! As far as I know Australia is its own country so why the freak do they care about royalty from the country and sent their ancestors there because they were unwanted criminals?! Who knows. Anywho, I got to the visitor's center at eight o'clock to start my day off nice and early to get as many hikes as I could in. The day was overcast and rainy most of the day. But I got there at eight only to find out it didn't open until nine. That would've been a good thing to check before waking up at five twenty in the morning....It was alright because i read for an hour until people showed up. I got a map from them and headed out on my way. Turns out this park was kind of like Arches National park. If you've never been to Arches I recommend it, but the layout of the park is such that you really need a set of wheels to see the whole thing. This was the same so I picked a mountain that had the most to do and set off for it. About 1. 5 hours later I got to the "parking lot". I walked around the base of the mountain(this mountain is only about 1,194 ft above sea level. To put this in perspective the Salt Lake valley floor sits at 4,226 ft above sea level.) After walking around the mountain I thought I'd go as far as I could up to the summit. It was a very misty/foggy day and you couldn't even see the top of the mountain. The description of the hike said it was for experienced hikers and did a bit of rock climbing. Well I've never really rock climbed and I was wearing my Tevas but I thought I'd try it out anyway and quiet when it got to much for me. I got to the rock climbing part but only went a bit up because the rocks were slippery and my Tevas aren't the best shoes for rock climbing stuff. The view from where I made it was so neat so I can't even imagine what it was like at the top :) I was somehow able to get back down without falling/slipping to my death and now my legs are sore today. I think I need to use them more. I wish I had a horse to ride... :-/ I spent the rest of the night watching old Merlin episodes and cuddling with my blankets.

Today at work I helped with turning everything on, giving some tanks a water change, cleaning some tanks, moving crap around in storage, prepping buckets for use, fed, and fed turtles. Not to bad :) Tho of course I can't have an accident free day. Today I was cleaning out this tank and I had to keep an eye on the water supply so that it didn't overflow, well it started to get high so I turned the inflow down but the water level kept rising so I turned it off but that didn't stop it. I freaked out and ran to get my leader. I told her how I turned it off and it did nothing. We got in there and it had overflowed. She looked and the pipes and told me I had turned it on full blast not turned it off. Good job moron!!! I had to use the infamous shop vac to clean my mess up with. After that the day was good. That's all for now! I hope you enjoyed it!! Because it put me to sleep writing it!!