DRACULA'S RESTAURANT - QLD

We head out to the bus stop to catch a bus to the Dracula’s restaurant. Oishii insists that we should go to the other bus stop as its apparently closer. After walking the entire city to surf we arrive to a bus stop that’s been cut off due to construction work. So we are basically standing in the middle of construction work waiting for a bus with two other old bags. The bus arrives and we jump onto it.

We arrive to Dracula’s to be obsessed with the building and it’s artwork. We go psycho taking photos of it from every angle. I had never heard of the place until Oishii did some research and insisted we should go check it out while we are at the Gold Coast. Dracula’s is one of those cabaret restaurants filled with entertainment and mysteries. To add to the night you enter the restaurant on a ghost train ride.

We spend a few minutes taking photos outside when we all get crammed into this tiny library looking room for a chat before entering. The guy talks and talks and its really dark and squashy in there. Somewhere along the time the guy states no flash photography which to me means nothing.

We walk in to the bar and quickly grab a cocktail each before jumping on the ghost train to the actual theatre. We sit down to enjoy our entrees when we both decide to start taking photos even though we are not supposed to. My camera flash goes off and it’s a screaming match when one of the staff members come screaming her head off that we cant take photos. My bad!

Cocktail

Our entree meal

Now all the waiters and waitress are dressed in character. They are all freaky looking lunatics. We have anything from a zombie to a nurse to someone that’s escaped out of prison look. Now we some how got the jackpot and got seated next to this old fart that took it upon himself to start a conversation with me the minute I sat down. He introduced himself and this lead into a non-stop conversation. I was ready to strangle the fuckwit by the end. Him and his wife arrived in Australia from London with a group of friends. Does it look like I care woman?

His group of friends just kept laughing at everything and everything. Not because it was funny but because they were drunk as hell and couldn’t stop laughing their heads off. By this time we needed alcohol and fast. We ordered a bottle of wine to help us in this situation.

During the intermission all of a sudden I spotted one of the waitress walking towards us with a cake in her hand followed by a bunch of zombies. The worst part was I knew what was coming but I was hoping to god it wasn’t what I thought it was.

You see before we went to the Gold Coast I checked out the Dracula website and told Oishii we should order one of the cakes they have because it looks good. We thought about ordering one, which had a hand on it but decided against it as we get dessert in the shape of a coffin.

It just hit me that Oishii had decided to surprise me and order the cake.I had all the characters (Dead Zombies and all) standing next to me with this cake singing happy birthday to me. Even though they couldn’t work out what my name was because Oishii had written on the cake "Happy Mykonos/Olympics Anniversary". No one knew what the fuck was going on. God I needed a few shots now. Apparently Oishii had asked them to not make a fuss and keep it quite. This was their way of keeping it quite. Can you imagine if she asked them to make a fuss?

Picture this Surfer Paradise 2006, I’m surrounded by dead zombies and Oishii singing Happy birthday to me when it wasn’t my birthday. The pommies all staring at us because we are causing a scene. The bitches were trying to figure out what was on my cake. Insert psycho lunatic guy who comes over with a knife. I thought he was going to hand the knife over to me when he lifts the knife and dramatically stabs the middle of the cake. My heart was racing like I’ve been on a treadmill for the last 6 hours. I thought he was about to stab me to death. There’s only so much excitement I can take now!

Once the parade was over this developed into a minor laughing fit. They took the cake away and brang it back to us in a box.

I couldn’t believe Oishii had organized this. What the hell were you thinking? After that fuss the second half of the show started. During the second half the waiter brang over a bottle of wine and told me to pass it over to the guy next to me. So I pass the bottle over when the guy refuses to accept it. So I pass it back to the waiter when the old guy says "Thank you I appreciate you buying wine for us". Like what the fuck? I wouldn’t waste my money on you lunatics.

The night comes to an end and it’s taken a lot out of me. We leave the restaurant around 11:15pm to head back to the apartment. We jump into a cab outside of the restaurant when half way to our apartment we heard a loud bang and smoke coming out. We luckily make it back to the apartment in time before we burn to death in that thing.

We race up to our apartment and have a shot while taking photos of my cake.

The Suprise Cake @ Dracula's

We decide to go roam the streets again to get Christine more footage. Being a Monday night no one was on the streets so we decided the best thing was to go retire into bed.