[Raleigh Becket is one of Those Tourists and Chuck is so unsurprised he would be so rich if he'd bet on it, which in hindsight would've been a pretty smart idea because it's not cheap to do all of the touristy things on Australia that she wants to do (it's over two hundred dollars to climb the Darling Harbor bridge and Chuck's a thrill seeker too but he has lived in and around Sydney for most of his life and he hasn't felt the need to climb the bridge but it's something she Has To Do).
This is what he gets for going to America and finding a girlfriend there.
Americans also have the bloody weirdest ideas of what Australia is actually like. There are more kangaroos than people but koalas are an endangered species. He's never seen one in the wild before, so he has no idea why she seems to think she's going to see one and if she doesn't, then the entire trip would be a bust.
Nevermind that Chuck thinks it's a waste of a trip purely because it involves spending Christmas with his dad because he can't think of a way to say "my old man and I don't talk at all because I can't forgive him for killing my mum" without actually.... saying that... and he is pretty fond of Raleigh 96 percent of the time but he doesn't want to have that talk with her. He knows that her family is all gone, so it means something to her to spend the holidays with her boyfriend and his family and he doesn't need her telling him how to relate to his dad.
Herc didn't really kill Angela, not intentionally. There was a car accident and Herc chose to pull Chuck from the wreckage first, and then go back for her and by the time he got back there, Angela had already passed away and neither Hansen man took the death well. Herc was lost without his wife and Chuck was too young at the time to not realize that his father's guilt and grief wasn't regret over picking his son and even if he gets it now, he doesn't forgive his dad for basically abandoning him.
So the trip at some point involves a detour back to his dad's house but that's still a few days off and he and Raleigh are in Queensland now, wandering around some trail because Raleigh read on the internet that apparently there are tons of koalas in this area but he's pretty sure this is a total waste of time.]
Can't we just go to the bloody zoo in Sydney and see one?
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This is what he gets for going to America and finding a girlfriend there.
Americans also have the bloody weirdest ideas of what Australia is actually like. There are more kangaroos than people but koalas are an endangered species. He's never seen one in the wild before, so he has no idea why she seems to think she's going to see one and if she doesn't, then the entire trip would be a bust.
Nevermind that Chuck thinks it's a waste of a trip purely because it involves spending Christmas with his dad because he can't think of a way to say "my old man and I don't talk at all because I can't forgive him for killing my mum" without actually.... saying that... and he is pretty fond of Raleigh 96 percent of the time but he doesn't want to have that talk with her. He knows that her family is all gone, so it means something to her to spend the holidays with her boyfriend and his family and he doesn't need her telling him how to relate to his dad.
Herc didn't really kill Angela, not intentionally. There was a car accident and Herc chose to pull Chuck from the wreckage first, and then go back for her and by the time he got back there, Angela had already passed away and neither Hansen man took the death well. Herc was lost without his wife and Chuck was too young at the time to not realize that his father's guilt and grief wasn't regret over picking his son and even if he gets it now, he doesn't forgive his dad for basically abandoning him.
So the trip at some point involves a detour back to his dad's house but that's still a few days off and he and Raleigh are in Queensland now, wandering around some trail because Raleigh read on the internet that apparently there are tons of koalas in this area but he's pretty sure this is a total waste of time.]
Can't we just go to the bloody zoo in Sydney and see one?