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Week 1
Hey guys and gals! first of all can i apologise for my blondness with my first blog entry but a huge thanks to Tyler for sorting it out for me i promise this one will work this time and i will have done it all by myself 😊
well, I am now on day 7 of my trip and it has been sooooo amazing already! we were picked up at 7.30am last sunday from Sydney and headed to batemans bay for our first nights camping and bbq by the beach which was fab! the group also surprised me with a choccy birthday cake with lit candles and a rendition of happy birthday when i returned from making my phone call home which was sooooo lovely! me and vicky then proceeded to drink a bottle of voddy between us as a further celebration which then caused me to fall over my tent rope in the early hours and landed on a tent peg causing a huge bruise on the top of my thigh - oops! well at least i celebrated my birthday in style and the group now already know who the real smartiepinkpants is (wixey - i didn't
let you down chick)! I had a fab birthday although i was missing everyone back home heaps! thank you all for the fab birthday cards, pressies and messages i've received - they made me shed a few tears but they were all gorg!
next day we hit the road but not for long because our bus decided to break down! argh! so after a number of stops to try and fix it, bocky, our tour guide decided enough was enough and sent for another bus to be brought to us which had to be driven from sydney to us. so we killed a bit of time by hitting the shops and pubs for a couple of hours! once new bus arrived we were on the road again and visited lakes entrace which was beautiful where we went for a lovely beach walk while the weather was nice and sunny! Due to the bus trouble, we were now a few hours behind schedule so arrived at our hostel destination at around 10.30pm so it was straight to bed!
following morning we had another long drive and arrived in Melbourne at around 1pm and checked into the Miami hotel (although
it didn't quite feel like miami coz its was bloody freezing)! hotel was gorgeous though and we headed out to melbourne aquarium which was ace and we found nemo so it was a bonus! Then it was back to the hotel to get ready and we then all headed out to Melbourne casino for dinner which was very classy followed by bevvies in the bar by the hotel. I got very excited on the walk back to the hotel when we saw a possum on the enbankment at the side of the road - which really amused the rest of the group coz a possum is like seeing a squirrel back home but it excited me! (small things eh)!
day 2 in Melbourne me and Chantelle walked around the botanical gardens which were beautiful (dad - I saw a bright green parrotty looking bird with red and yellow on - im sure you know what it is he he)! then walked around the parliament buildings and the war memorial which sounds really boring but it was really pretty and good exercise coz we bloody walked miles LOL!
Night 2 in Melbourne was spent back at the local bar but this
time it cosisted of tequila shots - eurgh! but it was all good!
Next day we left Melbourne at 7.30am (eurgh - my head hurt bad) and arrived at Bell Beach which, so far, has been my favourite beach it was sooooo beautiful although pretty windy and cold when we arrived but still got some nice piccies! then we hit the great ocean road for about 5 hours which was absolutely gorgeous and we managed to see some kanagaroos from the bus which was very exciting! we arrived at Port Campbell and stayed in a hostel there for the night which was spent playing drinking card games and was also my first expereince of Goon (lau w - OH........MY.........GOD LOL!!). Next day, waking up with another sore head we had an early start to make our way to Robe where we stopped off along the way to see the 12 apostles which was sooooo amazing and then had a nice picnic at the blue lake.
and here we are now, day 7 in Adelaide (oh, we've just come back from wine tasting so i hope you can understand my typing - its looking a bit blurry to me)!
we are here tonight and then we head off at 7am tomorrow for an 8 hour drive to Mount Remarkable for a hike and Emu and Roo spotting which im sure will be interesting - particularly with hangovers as we have just purchased some pink sparkling wine and a box of goon from the wine tasting event! hmmmm!
Im having such an amazing time already and its only day 7 - although we are all looking forward to getting further north for some warmer weather coz its pretty cold here! so far out of the citities sydney is still my favourite and im looking foward to returning there to climb the harbour bridge!
Hope everyone is doing ok im missing you all like mad! its been quite difficult to update my blog on a regular basis as we are on the road a lot of the time but every chance i get i will log on and update you all!
thanks for all your messages i hope i get chance to reply to them all!
oh and one more thing, one of the guys here has decided to keep a "blond comment" diary as quite a
few have been made so far by me and vicky but unfortunately im in the lead with my comments so i've decided to keep my mouth shut for at least the next couple of days ha ha! (at least im not the only one here)!
love to everyone i'd better shut up now - i will be in touch very soon
love smartiepinkpants
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Annie
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Hey Sweety Pie! Cant believe its only been a week hun, feels longer! sooo glad that your having a whale of a time, loving the pics! (you know me and pics!) good to hear that your keeping up with the wine drinking!! oh no Goon is that what Lau chatted on about when she was doing her stand up with laura!! hehe we love Dwakie really! glad you liked your card and lil pressie mate! did you save it to your biffday really?? hehe I have been a bit slack on the blog for the past 2 days what with out for a meal, shopping and drinking and not to mention the hang over from hell this morning! it 7.39 now and ive only been up about 2hours so just hope i sleep tonight!! Ive been waiting for a text from your mom about baby smart and still nothing! who will he follow being stubborn, not his aunty smarty hey! Hope you get chance to nose on facebook at some of the pics im putting on!! Love you long time! anna/annie/annabella!!!!!!!