Roadtrip in Australia: A comedy (Act I & II)

Main characters:
Nina: Buzzing blondine, full of energy and addicted to braintraining.
Katelijne: Curly blond hair, loves adventures and addicted to travelling.
Mirjam: Brown haired, highly spirited, always the last to leave the party.
Iris: Curly brown hair, extremely ambitious and independent. In love with Egon.
Yaisa: Long black hair, positive and enthousiastic, addicted to life.
Egon: Long, slim, blond hair, blue eyes. In love with Iris.

Setting:
Our main characters are about to embark on an adventurous holiday in Australia. Coming from Holland, Singapore and Sydney, this party of six friends is looking forward to spending some time together, enjoy xmas and new year’s eve without parents (in-law) and recover from their hard working life. The scenes are set in Singapore, the Gold Coast of Australia and Sydney.

Chronology:
Day 1: Iris & Egon fly to Cairns and start their romantic campervan holiday
Day 14: Kaat & Mir arrive in Singapore to spend some time with Yais
Day 17: Mir flies to Brisbane via Melbourne, Yaisa flies to Sydney to spend a day and night with Nina. Iris & Egon arrive in Hervey Bay and start grocery shopping for the stay at Fraser Island, including Xmas dinner necessities.
Day 18: Mir picks up the campervan in Brisbane, Kaat flies to Brisbane from Singapore and Nien & Yaisa fly to Brisbane from Sydney. The four girls reunite at Brisbane airport and start driving North to Hervey Bay. Iris & Egon pick up the Toyota Landcruiser Wagon 4WD, stuff all the groceries in it and cross over to Fraser Island. The four girls arrive later that evening and are reunited with the couple. The party of six spend a wonderful 4 days on the island.
Day 22: Kaat & Nien leave the island in the morning, the rest is scheduled to leave in the evening. Nien flies back to Sydney. Kaat picks up the parked campervan. Lots of things go wrong.
Day 23: Kaat, Mir, Yais, Iris & Egon are eventually reunited in Hervey Bay and start driving down to Sydney. They arrive in Byron Bay in the evening.
Day 24: They spend the day in Byron Bay on the beach and continue driving South. Iris & Egon make some good miles and camp out in Hat Head. The three other girls go easier and camp out in Yamba.
Day 25: Iris & Egon continue their drive South, while the three girls get stranded along the Pacific Highway. They are forced to spend the night in Coffs Harbour, 700 km from Sydney.
Day 26: Mir, Kaat and Yais decide to take a plane to Sydney, Iris & Egon drive on… The three girls make it to Nina’s place without further ado and go out in hip & trendy Sydney.
Day 27: Iris & Egon make it to Sydney, the party is complete again! New year’s eve is celebrated in style and our main characters enjoy their last few days in Sydney together.
Day 29: Yais flies back to Singapore, closely followed by Iris & Egon who will continue their trip into Vietnam and Cambodia after a weekend in Singapore.
Day 30: Nina, Mir and Kaat go on a weekend trip to the Blue Mountain, after which Mir & Kaat go on a Safari to Alice Springs.

Act I, Scene 1, Day 17: How Yaisa almost managed to miss her flight to Sydney.
At Yaisa’s home in Singapore
Kaat: Hey Yais, shouldn’t you be going to the airport?
Yais: Oh, plenty of time, Singapore airport is really efficient, you only need to be there one hour before departure… but yeah, I’ll get going!
(After saying goodbyes, Yaisa jumps in a taxi and arrives at the airport)
Yaisa: Good evening, I would like to check in for the flight to Sydney departing in 60 minutes!
Ground staff: Hmm, you don’t seem to have a visa for Australia, miss!
Yaisa: Damn, that’s right, completely forgot… can I get one somewhere now?
Ground staff: Yes, customer services can help you….
(Yaisa runs to the customer services office, manages to get a visa in 25 minutes and runs back to check in)
Yaisa: Good evening, I would like to check in for the flight to Sydney departing in 35 minutes!
Ground staff: Hmm, could I have the credit card number you paid the ticket with?
Yaisa: Damn, that’s my old credit card… I got a new one a few weeks ago… I DON’T KNOW MY OLD CREDIT CARD NUMBER! But you have my passport, my eticket number…. Can’t you issue the ticket?
Ground staff: Sorry miss, I need the credit card number, otherwise you’ll have to buy another ticket at customer services…
Yaisa: I’m not going to pay twice for my ticket!! Wait, I have an idea…
(She grabs her mobile)
Yaisa: Kaat, HELP! I’m so glad you’re in my house! You have to find my agenda and look up my old credit card number… I think I wrote it down somewhere!
Kaat: OK, hold on…. Yep, found it!
Yaisa: Thank god… OK, got it! Thanks and see you in two days in Brisbane!
Kaat: Yep! Will enjoy your pool in the meantime!
Ground staff: OK miss, this is the correct number, here is your ticket, please go straight to the boarding gate!
Yaisa: Sure!
(Yaisa runs through customs, makes a quick stop a the duty free shop for some essentials and makes it to the gate 15 minutes before departure)
Who ever said Singapore airport was not efficient…?

Act II, Scene 1, Day 18: How a branch got stuck in under the 4WD...
On Fraser Island, just after the six friends are reunited and on their way to the beach villa where they will spend the next four nights. It’s dark and the road is bumpy, Egon is driving.
Someone: I’m hearing something funny… are you hearing something funny?
Someone else: Yeah, sounds like something is stuck…
Someone else: Yep, I'm hearing it too...
Iris: Egon! Didn’t you see that branch in the middle of the road? Did you drive over the branch perhaps?
Egon: I don’t know, I didn’t see… I’ll pull over…
Mir: I’ll check… Let me get out…. Yeah… It’s a branch and it’s stuck under the wheel!
All: Hahaha… great job Egon, at least we got the adventure started early!
(While Mir & Egon crawl under the car, the rest of the party has some fun taking pictures of them… 20 minutes later, they manage to get the branch out. Only a cable seems to be damaged, but after some checks, the car seems to work fine, so the party drives on).
Always avoid branches on dirt roads on Fraser Island….


Act II, Scene 2, Day 19: How Iris fed the Dingo
On Fraser Island, by one of the beautiful lakes. The six friends get out of the 4WD carrying a coolbox with their picknick.
Someone: Hey, do you see that sign? We’re not allowed to consume any food on the beach!
Someone else: Oh, it’s probably jsut because they want to keep the beaches clean…
Egon: Yeah, I’m really hungry, I'm sure we can eat...
Yaisa: And I would love a glass of wine to go with it!
All: OK, let’s picknick!
(Egon galantly makes sandwiches for all the ladies and lastly for himself. Everybody is enjoying the beautiful view and the delicious tuna sandwiches)
Mir: Oh oh, a dingo, there, on the beach! It must have smelled our food!
Iris: Aaaah, I don’t want my sandwich anymore, I want to get rid of it!
(Iris throws her sandwich 5 meters away from her onto the beach, where it lands approximately 3 meters from Mir & Yaisa. The dingo thinks it’s his lucky day, sprints to the manna that fell down from heaven and gobbles it down in 2 seconds… He then turns his head in the wind and smells there is more…)
Yaisa: Shit, I still have half of my sandwich! What to do?
(On an impulse, she completely stuffs it in her mouth and, munching slowly, keeps a close watch on the wild dog. The rest throws their sandwich back in the coolbox and the six friends watch the dingo slowly walk away…)
Egon: That’ll teach me to make sandwiches for ladies first! Next time, I’m eating my own sandwich first, I only had one bite and I’m really hungry! Maybe I’ll get mine out again and eat it quickly…
Iris: NO WAY! I want to go, I hate dogs, I hate dingo’s!
(Laughs and giggles by all, as they break up the picknick after finishing the wine and enjoying a beautiful afternoon on the beach).
Never ignore signs on Fraser Island….


To be continued and pictures to follow soon...