Off With Your Pants! Day 1 of the Cheeky Trip!

Day 1-What a wonderful response! We were out there in the Valley Mall yesterday wearing our bin bags. Before we got there people were waiting around to donate goods to our cause. The Wicked Campers girls brought a custom made van door with our names sprayed on it, nice! I wonder how long it will take using this Fred Flintstone type vehicle without wheels?

We spent the day the whole day under the glaring sun in sweaty plastic (it didn't end up raining like we feared.) We endured all the laughing, pointing, gasps, looks of horror and sympathy but met some wonderful people throughout the day.
The stall holders in Valley Mall kept us in constant supply of refreshment and food and many donated items from their market shops.
People offered us places to stay, jobs to do, many donated items for us to wear and we have a hostel to stay in throughout our time in Brisbane until Wednesday.
We've a bunch of thanks to give Susie Gardiner who made a fantastic banner and some delicious home made biscuits. We'll be using this banner all around Australia Susie! Thanks, thanks and more thanks!

Anne was very surprisingly interviewed for a fashion magazine, which stated her dress sense as "interesting". She described her bin bag/garbage sack look as.... "Street skip rat," or "RUBBISH!" Gareth's mum adds.

Carlie from Nova radio came down to give us a bag of goodies! Thank you lovely.

As you can see from the video, Gareth did try to smuggle some biscuits but he was soon found out during the de-robing session. EVERYTHING was given up to the two beautiful girls at Wicked Campers. Sorry about the low quality of our video, we are waiting for the girls to send us a clearer, more professional link but until then we will have to do with the one my sister took on her little camera.

Please visit the Book Aid News page, where you can see what we are doing for them over the next four months.

Thank you so much to all those great people who have offered beds, food and jobs up the eastern coast of Australia. We will be seeing you soon. We are still looking for a few more jobs and beds between Townsville and Mt. Isa and further west. If anyone has anything to offer we would love to hear from you.

Phil would like to thank Gareth and Gareth would like to thank Phil.

We spent most of the day without footwear but by the middle of the afternoon we could walk home safely. Phil would like to thank the very giving guy who took the shoes off his own feet to give to him on the spot! Wow! That is generous!!!!!

What an inspiring day. The support and encouragement we received was phenomenal and we are so very grateful to everyone who left all the positive comments in our message book. We appreciate everything that people have done for us. We understand that there is a lot being done behind the scenes which we will never know about, such as people spreading the word about our cause and about Book Aid and we thank you all for your had work.

Wow! After a day in the sun clad in black plastic, sweaty and smelling a little stale. We feel great in the knowledge that the world is a great place full of people with a good sense of humour for a great cause.