CONTIKI BEACHES & REEFS / AUSTRALIA DAY 7

After an action packed day on my birthday and a heavy night of drinking, you'd think I'd wanna spend all day in bed right? Wrong. I dragged my hangover arse out of bed at 6am to do something only dare devils, adrenaline junkies and borderline psychopaths do... I was going to jump out of a plane.

Since being back in England, I've seen hundreds of my Facebook friends skydive in Australia and it actually made me giggle because it's something I don't think anyone would ever do in the UK. But there's something about Oz that makes people spontaneous and daring and think "why the hell not!" Plus, if you're gonna jump out of a plane, you might as well do it in 30 degree weather with views over Australia's Gold Coast!

The mini bus picked us up really early because it was a 2 hour drive to the skydiving centre, but at this point I was surprisingly calm considering what I was about to do. In some ways, I'm kinda glad I was hungover (by hungover I mean still drunk) because I wasn't really with it so I wasn't as nervous as I normally would have been. You can watch my skydive video below if anyone is interested. FYI, our answers to his questions were awkward because we'd had about 3 hours sleep, were still drunk and hadn't mentally prepared ourselves to answer questions before chucking ourselves out of a plane.

The whole thing is such a blur now, but you get such a sense of accomplishment once you've done it and I would honestly recommend it to anyone! I love facing my fears and this was definitely one of them - number 2 on my bucket list was well and truly ticked off!

I slept the entire journey home and jumped straight into bed as soon as we got back to the hotel. I think everyone spent the day chilling by the pool but I was so sleep deprived, I didn't wake up until 5pm that evening! Contiki can really take it out of you, especially with the early mornings, the long coach journeys, the activities and the late nights partying! This was our one and only activity free day (apart from the skydive) where we could choose to spend it how we liked, and I know it seems a shame to spend it in bed but it needed to happen. I didn't want to be tired and exhausted the rest of the trip, so I tried to take advantage of sleeping whenever I could.

That evening a few of us decided to go to a Thai restaurant to say goodbye to a few of the girls who were finishing their tour in Surfer's Paradise. We were joined by 4 new arrivals the previous night who were continuing on with us to Cairns, but a few people dropped off at different destinations along the way. After dinner, we went back to the hotel and chilled in the guys room for a bit but that was about it!

Next stop, Noosa!

xxx