Land of Oz: 03.06

Almost there...

I have NZ, Melbourne/Big Blue Air, and school updates written. I'll have the pics ready soon and they'll be posted. At least I'm in Feb now! I'm nearly caught up! I've been at it since 10am and it's 3pm now and my stomach is sooo angry at me from neglect. Taking a break... might do more tonight... might wait. Anyhow - hope you're enjoying the updates.

Night out at Billboards - Feb 4

Kim, Haroon and I met Sahani, Udeshika, Mohammed and Manjit at Billboards just down the street from my house. We had some crazy fun dancing!

Kate and Kim... we look purty!

It's happy hour! Drink, Haroon, drink

Hip hop hooray.... hoooo.... heeeeeeey... hooooo

Ladies in the house - Kate, Udeshika, Sahani, Manjit

Oh my! Greeting with kisses leave their mark!

Manjit and me

Sometimes I even shock myself! Someone thinks I look really pretty in this pic. I might actually have to agree...

Chapel Street - Jan 28

Kim, Sahani, Udeshika, Nuwan, Haroon, Steffi at The Imperial and then Bridie O’Reillys.

with Udeshika - isnt she a cutie?

the boys... not sure what they are doing, but it was funny at the time!

the ladies

Steffi and me

Love these two gals!

mmmm... beeeeer.... CHEERS!

City - Crown - Odeon - Jan 21 (I think?)

Angelo, Kim, Sahani, Udeshika, Haroon, and Nuwan at Odeon at Crown Casino. Had pretty much crap rap going, but I got approached while dancing to do promotions for them. I was flattered, but it’s hard to sell a product you don’t love. So no thanks.

Me, Angelo, Kim across the Yarra River from the Arts Center

Trying to look sexy on the bridge to Southgate

Oh no! Wiley's got me by the throat!

Racin' the ponies! Go girl go!

Kim and Kate at Odeon

Cheesing it up with A'lo

Aidan's Birthday - Jan 20

Happy 27th! We went to have curry in North Carlton and then continued the drinking and merriment at his place.

The birthday gang (minus me b/c I took the pic - Rhys (A's housemate), Tiffany (A's sis), Simon (T's BF), Travis (A's housemate), Murat, Carl, Aidan, my empty seat, Kim, Andrew (Kim's BF), Rhys's GF whose name I never remember

The boys (Travis, Murat, Carl, Aidan)

Birthday boy and me

Indulging in the American custom of birthday spankings. I had to fight him for it while everyone else counted and laughed!

Phillip Island

I took a random weekend daytrip to Phillip Island. It’s just over an hour outside of the city and has great surf beaches, a couple small towns, and fairy penguins!

It all started out with a friend of Sahani and Udeshika’s suggesting an outing to Lakes Entrance, about 4 hours away. The plan was that the girls, Kim and I would be driven by the friend (Nuwan) to this destination in time to be there for sunrise. We had dinner at his place, watched a movie, then everyone tried to get some sleep. At 3am when the alarms started ringing, no one appeared to move but the driver and me (because I hadn’t even fallen asleep yet because I was talking online). He suggested an alternate destination to Phillip Island and that was fine by us!

We left around 10am and stopped at the visitor’s centre and then just drove around to some of the beach areas and lookouts. We stopped for fish and chips in the main town on Phillip Island and then went out to the far end of the isle (which took 20 min from the town – it’s a small island) to the blowhole walk area before heading to the fairy penguin centre. It was getting quite cool but we braved the wind and sat in the bleachers with the tons of tourists awaiting the arrival of the penguins back to their nests safe in the reserve. First there was one…then another… and then tons! They are, at a max, a foot high! Soooo cute! No pictures of them because it’s not allowed – the flashes can blind them (or so they say). So you can go here to see what I’m talking about. Otherwise, here are just a couple of the shots I took.

in the car...

some rocky terrain

Walking to the blowhole

Tharr she blows!

Night out at Frostbites - Jan 13

Angelo, Kim, Sahani, Udeshika, Haroon (and co), Nuwan, Mohammed, Ahem at Frostbites on Chapel Street. It’s called Frostbites because of the frozen drinks – think those frozen margarita machines at bars and Mexican restaurants. I had a mango drink that was quite tasty once I could taste it over the cold!