Day 5 - We are in Alice Springs!!!! What's in your backyard???

I am all class

Our NT Draught 2L Beer
The Bojangles

Main Street of Alice Springs

Welcome to Alice

Well we survived the night at Kings Canyon...with not much sleep as the dingos were running past and howling...we both woke up again around 3 in the morning a little cold...to see some other tourist sitting outside on deck chairs waiting for the dingos...we get out of our beds at around 630...this is a sleep in for us...and had the best shower of the trip...got to use hot water and it was just awesome...amazing how much you can miss the simple things in life...
A quick petrol stop at the resort before we head off for Alice Springs...we pull up behind an idiot whom had parked at the back pump so we would have to wait. He did see us and moved forward after 10 mins of trying to cross the language barrier, so that was nice. Only problem was the pump we could now reach was not in use...Chat to the guy who works there and he tells me that maybe while we wait we should put air in the tyres...the guy in front was french and having all sorts of problems putting diesel in his van. We check the air and then quick thinking as we are decide to use the petrol bowsers on the other side. We fill up and the guy is still there only 30L into filling up his tank...Bit of a chat to the 2 guys working there one had been there for 2 weeks and was only staying another 8 before heading over to Elquestro to work...the other had been there for 1 month...What a life...the more we travel and talk to people the more it seems working in these tourist places is a great idea...
As if that wasn’t enough Disco D and his Mrs came to the petrol station to bid us a fond farewell, after he got confused by the sign on the road which he took to mean veer off into the bushes and not around the slight bend in the road....then he lost it and started howling and carrying on because the wife wasn’t following him around.......doesn’t matter what species of animal you are I guess that is a proviso
A completely uneventful trip from Kings Canyon to Alice Springs...and around 2pm we roll into Alice...First stop was The Flying Doctors for a quick tour. $7.50 for a ten minute video and a chick talking to us for about five minutes, however the money does go to a good cause keeping the doctors and nurses in the skies in rural Oz. A look around the museum and we are off again...we headed up to ANZAC Hill to see the view of Alice...you can get a great view of the whole town from up there. A nice memorial for the diggers of Australia and New Zealand...
Next stop was the historical telegraph station...Wow there is some history there. It’s sad to read all the stories about the Aboriginal people and how the half castes were taken and moved around like they were. A lot of the building from the station had been demolished but you could see the conditions would not have been fantastic in the 1940’s...
We decide to go and check in at the caravan park. We have changed our plans as I mentioned a few blogs ago we now have to be in Darwin on Friday. And as we managed to see the couple of things in Alice Springs fairly quickly we were now only staying the one night. Found the park without any problems. I had pre paid this stop so it was just a matter of getting boom gate keys and find out what site we were on. Only to be told by the chick that we had not paid. She let us in anyway and then I quickly got internet for an hour to prove to her via my bank records that we had paid. She kindly refunded the night that we were no longer staying. Wasn’t expecting a refund at such late notice so I was very grateful.
On the net for an hour went so fast uploading photo’s on facebook. While we charged our cameras and relaxed for a bit and also freshen up with showers...we had big plans for the night...a supermarket stop, a couple of beers at Bojangles, some washing and then catching up on the blog and our facebook pages...this was all thrown out the window when I jokingly sent a couple of messages saying your shout...Such wonderful friends we have...Colleen, Rob and Hailey shouted us a NT Stubbie...a 2 litre bottle of NT Draught...the one stubbie is $27.50...it’s huge...so huge in fact it is stored out the back and in its own special box...like true troopers we start chugging down on the disgusting beer that NT draught is...but we were determined to finish it...along with the stubbie Coles requested a very fitting song – Grinspoons Lose Control...I think we already had...Clint also kindly shouted us a couple of beers with his $20 voucher sent our way...Again a very big thank you...and we hope that Hails appreciated the jive turkey dancing we did on the net for her to see just how special needs we really are, I am sure the people in the pub would agree to that!!
Mel gets up and requests Johnny Cash – Ring Of Fire...gets the oldies up and dancing away I’ll tell you...most embarrassing part of this is the DJ/Radio Broadcaster (As a live radio show is broadcast from there every night all over the world via satellite) remembered our names from the vouchers and told everyone it was us that requested...One of the cutest barmen we’ve seen in some time comes over to pick up our empty glasses when we are half way through our stubbie, he is impressed with how we are doing...But the beer is getting worse as it’s getting hot...we were by this stage adding ice to our glasses. He kindly bought us back an ice bucket...Now that’s a funny site, keeping your beer cold in an ice bucket...Just to prove we are in the outback a cockroach just crawls along the floor...I do a little squeal...then the toilet was a fun experience...Barb wire in the toilet seats and the taps turn on the opposite sinks...very funny to watch other people try and work that out...
We notice three guys sitting across from us had been waving at the camera’s that live stream on the internet. They were also bought a gift voucher for an NT Stubbie...I kindly went over and offered to let them try it before committing to 2 litres if the stuff. So other than the one glass I poured for them to try we finished off the whole bottle...needless to say we were very merry by this stage...Then to polish off the drinking we spend Clint’s voucher on Pure Blonde Naked. Neither of us had seen it before so thought we’d give it a try...we used the rest of the voucher to buy some nice beer...Pure Blonde...Yum...by this stage we are now sitting at the table with some English fella’s (the one’s I gave a drink too) Alex, Matt and Sean...very nice guys...had a blast chatting to them for ages. Alex decided he was going to call it a night so it was just the four of us from there. Matt kindly shouted a round with the boys joint funds...as I taught them some new aussie words...not appropriate for here...ha ha ha ha ha ha...last drinks are called and we are now out the front of Bojangles at who knows what time...takes us 25 minutes to debate the pro’s and con’s of all alternatives before settling on going back to our caravan site instead of the Lassiters 5 star cassino/hotel the boys were staying at for another beer...luckily our site was powered...
So we are on the way back to the park and Matt pops up and says “you aren’t going to kill us are you” only to get Mel’s response of “well you should be alright you’re not Peter Falconio” So we are all now sitting around the camper and we only have 2 cold beers...such gentlemen as they were Sean opts for water and Matt has a warm beer...it would have been really warm too...sitting in the back of the campervan since Port Augusta...Mel and I enjoy our cold beers...not that we really needed it at this late stage of the game...Always good to sit around with some people from another country and discuss the more serious things in life like the royal family and how they are not needed...politics and the world economy at the moment...now why in my drunken state would I want to be talking about this shit???
LAST DRINKS are called again at 3am and after a brief phone call to the cab company the boys are ready to hit the road, and as classy aussie chicks go we are ace!!!! We walk them to the front of the caravan park to send them on their merry little way to enjoy their 5 star holiday as we continue on our merry little way further up the highway in our trusty little 1 and a half star campervan.