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Published: April 16th 2008
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On Monday we caught the train to Ferntree Gully where we went to visit Shells's mums friend, Deb and the family!! Really weird for Shell seeing her as it has been 8 years since she last saw her! We met Deb and Pete her partner, son Daniel our age, Lauren her daughter and Hannah her Grand daughter!! Deb's was fab and im not sure how much goon we drunk within this week but it was a heck of a lot haha (i'd say around 16litres?! mental!!) We had great week..chillaxing, doing washing and ironing, catching up on our diary and blog and getting some nice home cooked food!!
At Debs there was alot of late mornings, we weren't complaining, it was a surprise if we were up and dressed by time deb got bk from her lunch break...making the most of it!! Althou we becam lil lazy we did get up and make use of our day! Lucky for us Daniel was in process of looking for a job so be was our chauffeur for the week!!..and great one at that!! First day we were there we went shopping at Knox, local shopping centre, Shell got her fix of boost(famous
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Unbeaten Char juice smoothies) and also picked up box of goon along with few other items of clothing!
Another trip was to the Dandenong Ranges, Dandenongs are one of the major tourist areas in Victoria, these were the mountains ranges that ferntree gully was situated at the bottom of! We went to the Sky high lookout where you can see the whole of Melbourne, this was pretty cool, being the tourist we are we got some snaps! We also has a visit to the wishing tree..Ha... none of our wishes have come as true yet! we stopped off for hot chocolate and food in a few villages surrounding the area called Sassafras and.. Olinda i think lol.It reminded me a bit of france with lots of craft shops and vintage stuff. Found english sweet shop, daniel had never heard of some of the sweets...pretty cool, very expensive thou! 15p fudge about $3 which is $1.40..ouch didn't spend too much in there! Ha! It was the best and great for char as she has turned into a chocoholic!Char had a cruise in Daniels lil Toyota before we headed back!
On the thursday night daniel took us out to the 'Pool Room'
Apartment
Unsucessful JILO! (our cellar but bigger and better!) where we met all of his school basically - thats what i mean about the cellar lol. We got introduced to alot of Aussie guys..which was pretty cool as we havent actually met that many aussie blokes yet, and they loved our english accents which they seemed to think was hot lol of course we werent complaining though!! Char was on a roll with pool...dunno whats happened to me...my skills are not so good anymore!! And yesss char was unbeaten by the lads...they hated it! Woooop Had a great night, few drinks and ended up on the dance floor stuttin our stuff!
The following day we got invited to stay at one of Daniels mate chris' apartments that was in the melbourne city.... we took up the chance straight away ha! Daniel drove us down in the afternoon, after he had recovered from the 3pots of beer he had! (1 and half pints..ya light weight!) We arrived at the apartment and to say the least it wasnt anything like the hostel we'd been staying in the other side of the city!! 3 Bedroom apartment with amazing few about 100metres away from the famous
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Us pretending its ours!! HA casino (biggest casino in the southern hemisphere!) !!...Ideal as thats where we were heading in the evening!! We went out and got some food and goon....Finally especially as we didn't get served in the first bottle shop as they said need to see our passports cause we were english...what load of rubbish never happened before...so Shell cracked it!! HA! (was the aussie's say instead of got annoyed) Then back to the luxury apartment and cooked food, started on the goon and got ready!! After good effort on polishing off the 4 litres of goon we decided to we holla a JILO!...this was great ideal until we realised we had no straws!...o but we did it anyway! And yes u can see how it turned out in the photos slightly impossible to drink to say the least! About half 12 we headed out to the casino, stayed clear managed to not be tempted as lack of money...soo we went up stairs to fusion and brought some more drinks instead! Lads being lads were wearing sneakers and didnt get in, they headed back to the apartment and some how managed to nearly get mugged!!...we don't no how! The morning arose to which
we found that chris had been slightly ill and was found sleeping over the toilet quite literally!..luckily we werent headed home first thing otherwise don't think chris would of made it! Ha! We cleared up the apartment, cleaned, moppped and hoovered and then left for ferntree gully about 4! Chilled out in evening as all felt pretty delicate! Plus we were heading to St kilda festival the following day with all the family so needed to be on form.
The following day Us, Deb, Pete, Daniel, Charlotte, Chantell and Sam (pete's daughters) and Lauren all headed to city again for the last day of the St kilda festival!! Was lush weather and a great astmophere, we watched sum live music, wake boarding, motor cross, went on ride and got few free goodies!! We met up with lads from hostel, before we headed back to the car to go back to Ferntree Gully for last night before we left on the monday. And of course the night did involve a few glases of goon! We had booked out first trip on the Oz bus on the tuesday to take us back up to sydney through the out back! We left
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Day before we left! about 12, said our goodbyes to Deb before she left for work and then daniel took us to the train station and admitted that he would miss us!...aRrrr! We headed into the city for a night before we got picked up at 6 in the morning to start our oz experience!
We just chilled at the hostel for the night, had few drinks, nothing hectic as very early start we had had in a long time! From here on all we had to expect was early mornings, early nights and alot of sight seeing!! Ahhhhh.....
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