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Published: November 16th 2008
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BATEMANS BAY
Just like Home & Away- check out our wheels!! Hi All
Firstly sorry for the delay is this blog been busy people- Im Melbourne drove down from Sydney myself & the 3 boys Wigs, Flute & Phil-left Sydney on the Tues morning collected our ford falcon nice car actually and we headed for Batemans bay which was our first stop- Phil & myself done the driving- arrived to rain in Batesmans bay we had booked into a YHA hostel but it was just like a caravan park- u wud think you where in Home& Away- didnt do much here made dinner & watched a DVD exciting stuff!! Next morning we headed off for lakes entrance but had to make a little detour enroute as poor Flute had got biten and his face was swelled up he was in a lot of pain so off we went to the hospital with him he had infact got biten by a spider and he had done the right thing going to hospital he had to get put on a drip and get antibiotics pumped into him,they wanted to keep him but we couldn't stay- so eventually we headed off for lakes entrance it was late when we arrived we wee all wrecked
so headed for bed!! next morning the boys went fishing and i hired out a bicycle and explored lakes entrance (anything was better than fishing!) Surprise surprise the boys caught no fish and we had to make do with fish and chips from the local chippy for our lunch- NEXT STOP MELBOURNE
Got to suburbs of Melbourne and we realised we had no map- How sensible of us so after nearly getting killed a few times thanks to Phil's action man style driving & going up and down the same streets we managed to find our hostel- although now i wish we hadn't!! THE HOSTEL the Melbourne international backpackers hostel is a story in its self- myself & wigs were booked into a 6 bed dorm for 2 nights- when we arrived to our room we were greeted by a 50 something year old man who was about 20 stone & lived in this room & liked to walk about in his boxers Not a pleasant sight- All his stuff was in the storage lockers & he even had the mattress & pillow from wigs bed on his own bed- d room stank of mould & dirty men- my
NED KELLY ARMOUR
Especially for my Daddy bed was covered in clothes there was another man an insomniac chef living in the room & he had everything alarm clock,suits heater all over the other side of the the room- we didnt know what to do but we knew because it was the International rules match & The Melbourne cup there wasn't a hope of gettin anywere else so we would just have to grin and bear it and go out & get drunk-which we did & when we went back to our room we thought we were in the room with a load of pigs the snoring was brutal worst we had ever heard & the insomniac chef who spent his nights drinking wine was sitting in the dark wine- strange- we tried to sleep but to no avail and the other 2 ppl in the room they were italian asked to get moved they never got a wink of sleep- badtimes
The international rules match was the next day- it was full of MAD irish we won if you didnt know it was a session & a half we had a laugh- went to a few Irish bars again just for a change- we stayed
Melbourne Cup
The 4 Amigo's!! out as long as possible but when we returned the 2snorers were in full force- complained to reception but they were no help at all which pissed me off. Thankfully we had arranged to go to stay with my uncle Dan and he picked us up the next day- talk about going from one extreme to another- him & his wife Eileen live in a fab Mansion in Mount Macedon which is abit out of the city but defo worth it- i got to stay in a suite with a 4poster bed, walk in wardrobe, ensuite with his n hers sink pure luxourios and they are spoiling us rotten cooking us fab meals giving us home comforts which we missed so much and taking us away on day trip to old Gold towns like Mouldon & Ballarett. We still here at minute but moving into city on Wednesday our cousin Sean who just got engaged last wk congrats to Sean & Cathy is going on holidays so we minding his place for him & in that time we gonna find our own place. Sean's wedding is in March so get to take in a family weding while we here!
Melbourne Cup
Don't we scrub up well- We also went to the Melbourne Cup which was class although i lost loadsa money- the boys got all suited and booted although Wiggy kept protesting that there was No way he was wearing a shirt & tie- As you can see in the pic he scrubed up well Mrs J would be proud. Met up and went to the races with Big Chuck he's doing great we stayed with him in his lovely apartment. The amount of style at the cup was unreal!! it turned out to be another session-on the train from the races into the city we had the whole carriage singing the fields of Atenry was hilarous all this asian ppl video recording it!! Ended up in Crown Casino its so surreal- i seen one lady lose $1000 in seconds, the casino had a nightclub, shops, cinema,hotel, foodhalls and was open 24-7!! We where only there to drink as we had lost enough $$ that day!
Met up with Cathal Brady we went for food he is also doing very well he just back from Dakata! he took me cruising about the city in his wee red car- was good to see him i hadn't realised he had been away so long! He has moved house and his house warming in a few wks so looking forward to it!
Not been up to much apart from that looking for jobs boring stuff like that hope to get sorted soon get a few bucks together for when the rest of the Mad Mc's arrive!!
Great to hear from you all at home- its good to know what you all have been up to so keep in touch!!
Hope its not to cold back home its 35c here goodtimes- all this talk of Christmas doesn't seem real so its soo hot!!
Anyway gotta go- won't leave it as long until my next update.
Leanne & Wigs x
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