Good Vibrations

So yesterday I went to a music festival called Good Vibrations. The ticket was very overpriced, but Christine persuaded me to buy it because she said I was going to have the time of my life. She was very wrong. The concert would have been great if it didn't rain ALL DAY. Apparently, rain isn't common in Sydney, and if it does rain it is on and off sprinkles. We woke up to a cloudy day but we hoped for the sun to come out at some point. Our new friend, Jordan, who we met through Sophia, told us about the concert beforehand and was nice enough to come pick us up at our dorm yesterday morning. He took us to his house which is in the North Beaches area. It reminded me of Southern California with all the beaches and surfers. On the way we stopped at a DRIVE-THRU liquor store! I didn't know those existed, but they do in Australia! It was sick. Once we got to his place we met his friends and partied for a bit before taking a $90 cab ride to the concert. Money is lost quickly here and I don't like it. The concert started at noon and went till 10, but we got there around 2 and left at 8. It started raining about an hour after we got there and it never stopped. It was fine at first because I had an umbrella, but it became very uncomfortable after awhile. A lot of the good bands didn't have tents over them so we didn't get to see them because we didn't want to stand in the rain. The only good thing that came out of the experience is that on our way into the concert, we got "Free Snooki" t-shirts and our picture taken for the MTV Australia website! Look for me on there! I wish it hadn't rained all day, because Good Vibrations would have been awesome if it was a sunny hot day like it usually is in Australia. Now for the worse part of the day. We had the hardest time getting home. We had to go back to Jordan's place to get some of our stuff and then we tried to take a bus to the train station. EPIC FAIL. The bus passed by us TWICE without stopping. Apparently you have to hail it down like a taxi for it to stop around here. Once that happened, we tried to catch a cab and got denied. The driver told us we were going too far. Finally another cab drove by and agreed to take us to the nearest train station, which was $35 away :-( When we got there we bought tickets with the only money we had left and jumped on the first train we saw. It was the wrong train. We had to get off, detour back to the stop we got on at and wait another 20 minutes for the right train. At this point I wanted to die. Christine was laughing about how funny our situation was, but I didn't find it so funny. I was tired and thirsty and I just wanted to be in my bed. We got home around 11 pm and I was so thankful. I am glad that adventure is over!