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Published: August 10th 2007
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Reunited with Emma and Ant - so Northern they're practically Scottish! G’day!
Ok, I’ve been incredibly lax with writing my blogs lately so I’ve got about three to catch up on! I had planned to make life easy on myself and shamelessly plagiarise Ant and Emma’s blog but since the blog site crashed the other day most of the blogs have been lost. After being close to tears I managed to salvage mine but I don’t know if everyone will be so lucky. What a complete and utter nightmare. So I’m a bit hesitant about continuing with posting blogs on the site but I’m going to persevere and just make sure I back everything up!
Anyway, on with the story of my adventures! On leaving Sydney I flew back to Melbourne. I had booked the flight because I had thought I’d be going on to New Zealand from there and I’d only planned on being in Melbourne for a couple of days. But since I’d now decided to stay in Oz for a bit longer I could take all the time in the world there to catch up with everyone, great!
On arriving in Melbourne I booked into the same hostel that Emma and Ant (from the groovy grape
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Oli, Dicky, Dave, me and Ant on our way to St. Kilda to get me some pumpkin! trip) were staying in. It’s the middle of winter over here and the hostel didn’t have any heaters - we were freezing! A couple of days later the rest of the gang from the trip arrived - Dicky, Oli, Dave, Will and Leanne - so it was great to be back together again and we had a couple of crazy nights out in Melbourne (although I now think Ladies’ Night and free champagne should be banned, as does the taxi driver who had to take me home!).
As I’d lived in Melbourne for three months I took it upon myself to play tour guide for everyone but I discovered that it really wasn’t my forte and that I didn’t know the city as well as I thought I did! Not to worry, we did get around a few of the sights and I took everyone on a trip to St Kilda on the premise of showing them around but really with the sole intention of buying some marinated pumpkin that I’ve been craving since I left, it just isn’t sold anywhere else in Oz!
We also turned into surrogate Essendon fans when we went to an AFL (Aussie
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Oli gets some extreme toothbrushing practice in at Luna Park Football League) game at the Telstra Dome which was good fun. I was a bit confused as to why hardly anyone turned up until the end of the first quarter - surely if you’re going to go to a match you’d want your money’s worth and see the whole game?! The fans are pretty restrained at the match too, only coming alive in the last quarter. It reminded me a bit of the Magic Numbers concert where nobody danced or sang along. Aussies can be strange!
I also had the chance to meet up with the guys I used to work with when in Melbourne and wouldn’t you know it, the place has fallen apart without me! It was excellent to catch up with them though, made me feel I’ve made a couple of life-long friends in the two Jo’s (definite holiday opportunities in the future I think, eh girls?!!).
And I met up with the adorable Kiwi Sam who survived the charity campaigning for a whole day longer than I did and we lived up to our tradition and got pretty merry in the strangest pub we could find, good fun! Sam and I also went to
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Dave, Ant and Dicky try and look hard...and fail miserably the Pixar exhibition that was on in the city at the time but since we were both too stingy to pay to see the full exhibition we had to amuse ourselves with trying out some futuristic computer games for free. I thought I’d be very amusing and put the nickname I’ve acquired in Oz “Frank the tank fanta pants” (very long story) in on my game but I was slightly embarrassed when I realised that my game, and name, was been projected onto a huge screen on the wall for everyone to see. Didn’t find it so funny then!
Since most of the groovy grape crew were heading up to Sydney (leaving Oli Oli Oli! behind in Melbourne) Dicky came up with an idea that was absolute genius and something I’ve been wanting to do since I came to Oz - roadtrip it up. Excellent! We looked into various options before deciding on hiring an 8-seater Kia Carnival - a definite family-mobile if ever there was one!
So we were set for the next part of our journey and waved a sad farewell to Oli as we drove off for our week-long trip to Sydney. Bring on the
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Leanne's ingenious method of drinking without having to move her gammy leg roadtrip! Xx
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