This weekend was absolutely fantastic! My mate, Slim and I went to Melbourne. We took off Thursday night for Launceston (a couple hours north of Hobart) and caught a flight to the mainland at 6 on Friday morning. We got to Melbourne and hopped a tram to St Kilda, a suburb featured in these first two pictures.After a lovely breakfast (I had pancakes- SO good, and so rare in this country) we went to the beach where I saw a small field of Jellyfish. I started playing with them (only poking the tops) when I saw a HUGE jellyfish almost the size of a football. I played with it for a while and determined it would probably be best NOT to try and pick it up to throw at Slim.
In the second picture you can see some of the dolphins jumping. There were dozens of them that went right along the coast line. It was so cool!Friday night we went to a big place called the Crown. It was right along the river and had dozens of restaurants, a hotel, shops, and a casino that took 15minutes to walk across! Of course after our lovely Thai dinner
we went to the casino and tossed away a few dollars, but between the two of us, we only wasted $8 in the penny machines.Saturday was sweet! We got up and went to the Victoria market. It was really cool, but after walking down just two rows of stands we both realised how much lighter our wallets had gotten and how much stuff we had acquired;
so, we took off to the train station. After a quick bite to eat we were off to the footie game! What a great experience!! The game we went to was an AFL (Australian Football League- it's Aussie rules football though, which is completely different from our football) game between Collingwood and Carlton. Those are the two most rivaling teams in the AFL so the air was tense, and the players were vicious! 
There was a HUGE fight after the first quarter amongst the two teams.
Adam, the young bloke in the picture here, said it was the worst fight he's ever seen in a footie game! Well, luckily, Collingwood (the team we were there to support) won, and we went to a bar for the rest of the evening to celebrate. There was a nice jazz band, and afterward we went back to Adam's where we were put up for the weekend.
Our flight took off at 8:30am on Sunday, and we spent the rest of the morning driving back to Hobart. I spent the afternoon chilling with Courtney, and am still a bit wiped from the whole weekend. Things with school are getting a bit hectic. I didn't realise until Thursday that I have a 2,000 word essay due on Friday,
and I didn't find out the topic until today... whoops! I'll git 'er done though. We only have three weeks of class left and all of the projects (one for wood skills and four for audio recording) are looking a bit frightening being due so soon.We have our first big rugby match against Christ this upcoming Sunday, and as a prop (the person who takes the ball first and whose job it is to bust through the defensive line) I am VERY excited to cream some Christ pigs (that is not derogatory, the pig is their mascot)!!!
Thanks for keeping tabs on me! I'll be sure to let you all know how the game goes! Wish me luck!
5 comments:
you're using the lingo...i am jealous b/c i would sound very silly doing that...plus i don't have a legitimate excuse like living in a country with such funny words. i miss you!
That sounds like so much fun!!! I like that you went to a "footie" game with your "mate" where you met up with some "blokes." I like the jellyfish story, too...do you think you could actually make jelly out of them? Hmmm...and would Veggitarians still be able to eat it??? Good luck at your game and on your school shenanigans!
Wow! Another adventure-filled weekend! I can't imagine how many words will be in your 'semester/vacation word bank when you're on your way home. I love the pictures. I double-clicked on the dolphin picture and it blew up to fill the screen - I could actually see the two jumping. I also saw the fruit bats. They looked just like the ones on our walkabout on Sunday. So did the rheas and the wallaby's. We thought of you at the zoo. Hmmm! Imagine that - you and the zoo - they kind of go together. Ha! Ha! Can't wait to see you - sooooooooon!
Lots of love ~ mum xoxoxo
P.S. Do you only take pictures on sunny days? Almost all your outdoor shots are full of sunshine and beautiful blue skies. Does it ever 'weather' down under? Sooo pretty.
:-) xoxoxo
Katie, What great pictures again. You have been so lucky weather wise. Did you get you paper done on time? What about tthe projects? After all you did go to study!!!!!Gup is really enjoying keeping up with you and that's a compliment as he seldom does E things.... Will be waiting anxiously to see and hear about everything at turkey time. Love ya tons Gap
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