Best and Worst Weekend ... BATHURST 2005

WOW, what a weekend! It took 3 hours to drive to Bathurst for the Auto Race on Wednesday and when we got to our house we would be staying at, it was amazing--a heated pool, tennis and basketball courts in the backyard, massive house, and oh yes how can I forget, sheep, cows, and a horse! Yes my friends, we were in the country. There were 9 of us girls staying in the house which was great fun and I ended up coming out of this experience with some amazing new friendships with 4 or 5 of the girls (yea!)...But the worked sucked!!! It was basically a slave driven operation-yes, I made my quota each day so I got the 26$ an hour, but our boss there sucked-it SNOWED today!!!...Well in the "mountain" - but down on the track it was sleeting all day. I don't remember coming to Australia for this? The wind chill factor was -5 Celsius (23 degrees F) and we had NO winter apparel provided...The actual temp was 7 degrees (44 degrees F) by the afternoon with less wind. So that pretty much sucked and yes, now I think I will yet again have a cold. The races were quite interesting as the type of people who attend are as trash as I have ever seen, know here as "Bogans" and wow where they ever!! No teeth, dirty, country, odd English language-hard to explain but interesting to say the least....The Holden team (GM) ended up winning as this race lasts 7.5 hours! (what?!) and contains 2 drivers as well..The team of Mark Skafie and somebody else won. There are literally fights between Holden and Ford fans daily and these "bogans" camp out all week on the mountain (a Michigan hill) and blow up the dunnies (porta johns), set things on fire (including themselves so I witnessed the after burns on one such credit card applier), let off fireworks towards each other, and other hell raising activities. Overall the experience was great and I did make some good money--I was # 3 of 10 in applications applied so I have the opportunity to go to the Gold Coast in 2 weeks for the next race but I will be passing on this since IT SUCKED!!! I may be in the Australian Auto Trader Magazine next week as well as my photo was taken for that...and about 20,000 varies forms of trash now have their photo with or of me as well--never had so many people take or want my picture ever...and we were fully clothed in long pants and jumpers!. But yah-i made some really cool great new friends to go visit all over the country as well as hang out with in Sydney!!! So tired and cold..Off to an early bed for me!