Hey :)

Im back again, just as promised I would continue my story today. It is amazing the kind of things you can catch up with at work here!! Australia is so lovely to me! After the great ocean road I have no idea what I did afterwards apart from work and sleep, but on the Thursday it was James 30th birthday he is part of the Scouse House generation so a load of us got all glammed up (kind of) and celebrated in style! I met Brucey for a beer first at his hostel it was happy hour so it was $4.50 for a bottle of 5 seeds which cheered me up immensely!! As that is well cheap! And then we headed on up to Scouse House. We got there just in time for a few more beers before we had to go out. We had a table booked at Max's which was where they kept sending me home when I turned up for waitressing trials! But all the food there looks and sounds amazing so we were all well excited. Me n Sarah had spend many hours at work scouring the menu trying to see what we wanted so obviously by the time we arrived we had already decided we were both getting lamb skewers with greek salad. Scouse House had already been to the restaurant to get some balloons and birthday related things up to get it birthday perfect. So Maxs is on hardware lane where they live and it is a proper lush buzzing street, the restaurant have a cool drummer man outside at all times and it has a wicked atmosphere, its proper holiday land I think i love it down there. So we all ordered some wine/beers/cider and some starters to share and mains. We all totally stuffed our faces!! My Lamb skewers were totally lush, best meal i've had since I got here i think, it was lush!! And Brucey got Kangeroo so I got to try some of that finally and it was amazing i think I would maybe get that if I ever get to go back there!! It was tasty tasty!! So anyways we all sat there getting more wine, then they started bringing us some free shots which was very nice of course!! Always a fan of a free shot or two. We got two free rounds of shots woohoo. Then they brought out the birthday cake so we all sang happy birthday to James, it even came complete with a disney princess feature!! We then headed back to their flat to continue the celebrations which was good, they have this song in the Scouse House which we dont know what its called but when it comes on everyone has to get to their own dance station and dance like a d*** for the whole song, Danny goes to the top of the stairs and Sarah n James go on the fireplace and I think Charlotte dances round the living room! It is hilliarious so we all did that, me and Meghan took position on top of the dining room table and Brucey joined Danny at the top of the stairs. They boys also pull their pants down (luckily not their boxers) and take their tops off too!!it is like the chippendales gone wrong haha. So we spent alot of time dancing to that on the night! Danny n James had also 'borrowed' a water dispenser from the restaurant when we left, and we all left with our wine poured into coffee cups so we could take it with us. Charlotte decided to take the water thing back as she felt bad as they'd gave us free stuff so off she went and came back with a bottle of white and a bottle of red wine!! Which I though was amazing! More free stuff!! So we drank even more wine and continued to party hard. We then played finders keepers but I sang the tune for Fun House as loud as i could for the duration of the game, i also knocked over some red wine somewhere and then got banned from the game and held back by james!! How rude indeed!! Then I got kicked out of the party... haha not really then I left to go home as I needed to be in work answering peoples subscriptions woes in 2 hours approximately. So off I went!!

The next day I was feeling a bit rough but actually not too bad I went to aldi on route to work and stocked up on cheese n bacon bun and chocolate croissant to perk me up for the day!! But then by the time I was on route home I realised I couldnt manage going out again that night so I went home and had a nice neighbours catch up night in!! Living the dream indeed!! When I woke up on the Saturday it was beach time!! I'd messaged everyone demanding we did Brighton Beach and Goon was essential. Our Claires brother Martin had also landed in Melbourne the day before so he was coming too with Clare, so I met him, Clare, Brucey, Shauna and Sam outside of flinders and off we went to the beach!! It was soo hot too, we were all stocked up with our goon and cider which was pretty exciting. Scouse House came like 30 mins after us so we had a nice beach crew kicking off. We set up our stuff right behind these 3 girls, and by the time we were all there we were obviously pretty loud and wondered how long they'd last and 3 minutes later they were off so we could spread out haha. So nice we are!! Martin has brought red wine goon to the beach which was a whole new class, that I hadnt seen at the beaches of Melbourne before so we were all well impressed with him. We had quite a lot of drink with us so we were well partying the beach up. It was lush and hot and I went in the sea a fair few times which doesnt always happen on beach days as it is cold in the sea here its not like asia bath sea water. Shauna and Sam went missing for hours looking for alcohol but they eventually made it back!! Scouse House left to go home just after the sunset which we are all obviously huge fans of, if you have seen my facebook this will make sense. We all do alot of sunset posing photos!! Me, Brucey, Martin, Clare and Shaua ended up being at the beach for hours, then Brid from work arrived with her wine which she was drinking out of a takeaway soup box haha!! So proud of her!! So we were there all night, we got the last train home which was very rock n roll of us haha. We we literally sitting on the beach in the pitch black watching the stars, when i went to the toilet I saw some cockroach type things!! Shocker indeed! I have seen nothing evil like that at all since I got here. I have basically only seen one spider and it wasnt a nasty looking one. So that was obviously a nice wee... anyways on my home from the station i thought I would walk past Janines work to see if she was finished shift yet and ended up going into there for a wine or two. While I was there Robyn fraped her and put on her FB that she was 4 months pregnant haha and then we all replied like 'good on you n archie' haha. So then all the congrats messages came though, haha poor love and her mam is on facebook so that could have been a big shocking thing for her to read haha.

Anyways the next day was SUNDAY and that means only one thing - FUTURE MUSIC FEST yey!! I was soo excited about this!! I got up and ready and went to go and meet Brucey and Tommo. When halfway down the road I had forgot my ticket - oops. So went back home to retreive it! Then continued my journey. Just crossing one of the million sets of traffic light crossings I live near and I got my phone out my bag to text Sarah or something and then when i went to put my phone away in my bag i realised my ticket was no longer there. Seriously!?! So i startrd proper panicking and emptying my bag asap and frantically looking through it and couldnt find a thing anywhere, I then started a stressed out backtrack to retrace my steps and found it like 25 metres away where I had orginally got my phone out! It was just lying there on the street - oh s***! Lucky me!! I live in a quite area just before you hit the city so if i had dropped it anywhere else it would have well been gone by now! So i was so happy to have found it. I am such a spud sometimes. So anyways off i wandered to meet the boys via a trip to Hungry Jacks (burger king) for a frozen coke which is the most amazing invention ever!! I love them so much, i really want to get some vodka one day (when im a rich backpacker) to have a vodka frozen coke cocktail!! Mmm! But anyways on route to Scouse House I stopped off at the bottleo so me n Tommo could grab some cider and meet his friend Frank who will always be crazy Frank I think. I then also stopped off at pieface to get a sausage roll as I was feeling slightly hungover. Worst sausage roll ever Greggs would be happy about the pastry products I am getting over here I swear!! So anyways we got to Scouse house, Frank had some amazingly bad pants with him (not wearing them) they were like khaki jeans that were all orange splattered like bleach had been poured on them basically! The story behind the pants was they were his mates. This is what happens to pants in Brisbane when your girlfriend finds you in bed with another woman apparently haha. I thought it was hilarious - we were like Frank are you sure they're you 'friends?' haha. But he claims they weren't his but he wanted to cut them and turn them into a pair of shorts so he got cutting away and when he put them on it was evident that they did not fit him, they were very tight and he could barely sit down in them which i think proved the fact they weren't his anyways!!

After a few drinks we headed to the festival, we walked all the way to flinders station and got on the party festival train. Then we went through the security section and we were in!! It was a nice day for a festival as by the time we got there around 4pm it wasn't blazing sunshine it was nice and cloudy so it was acceptable weather!! After a 45 minute toilet break (why are womans toilets always rammed?) I went off to see Rudimental who were amazing I was very impressed. I then managed to find J9, Joanne, Jo's brother Stephen and Zoe in there somehow which is amazing as there was soo many people in there. Me n J9 had to meet up for Gangnam Style as it is of course our Asian Song of choice. So when Psy came on i was so happy to discover he was doing Gangnam Style not once but twice. Once so you can take photos and film his amazing routine and twice so you can join in and dance the second time. What a nice Korean he is. I think I love him a little bit. So course we danced like crazy fools both times yey!! Happy days indeed. I then went and saw The Temper Trap who were brilliant, Dizzee Rascal, Hardwell who was completely amazing, Avici, The Stone Roses and we went to see who the mystery UK guest was in the Jack Daniels tent and it was only Greg Wilson!!!.... nope i dunno who that is either. I was thinking it was going to be Craig David so what a let down to not be able to get out all of those Bo Selecta jokes on him. Shame on the festival organisers!! But we all had a fab day and night we danced our little socks off!! It was a huge festival and there were 9 stages!! It was massive, I'm so glad I went it was well worth the $160 ticket!! During the festival we kept all losing each other, we lost Crazy Frank so many times bless him and eventually he bought a hat from someone for $32?! Nutter! We made a lot of new friends all day with the randomers milling around. And we all painted our faces pink with Tommos sunblock stick so we all looked super cool clearly. By the end Me n Scouse House has lost Tommo, Brucey and Crazy Frank of course so off we went and headed to the train station when we got there finally we realised it was massive queues so we decided to walk home! All the way Sarah was like ' I need a wee, Im not walking Im getting the tram, Avici is picking me up' haha she was hilarious! For over an hour she was dying for a wee me n James were trying to make her wee herself or wee in a bush but she would do neither!! Eventually after walking down loadsa random streets we ended up at a pizza shop so she could we and we could all get a drink as we were all super thirsty by this point! After 1 hour 30 mins of walking home we ended up in Kensington which is miles away from home haha so we got the train from there back to flinders - we literally just managed to catch the last train which was pretty lucky as I was shattered and wanted my bed!! They all went out as non of them were at work the next day but obviously I was as i needed my bank holiday pay of $50 per hour!!

The next day at work i was soo sleepy nevermind though I sharp got over it, and ended up on my way home deciding it was such a lovely day (around 36degrees at 6pm) that I was just going to have to go out for a nice couple of cold ciders, and I had been wanting to go out to the Rooftop Cider Bar in Jacksons at Flinders, so I went and met Brucey and Martin there for a few. The cider bar was really far upstairs and when I got there I was ever so slightly disappointed! It is teeny tiny! With walls build up around it so no views! And it was soo hot in there it was like inside outside. Bad times!! The good thing was the cider as it was all farmer brew strength cider. So we worked our way through as many of them as we could, at the crazy time of 9.20 we were kicked out of the cider bar cos it was very late?? Please also bear in mind it is bank holiday Monday!!?! Oh my god!! So we went downstairs and then continued our drinking in there, then brucey went home as he cant hack 3 nights out in a row apparently shame on him. Me n Martin continued true Geordie Shore style. There was a man in there who we found hillariousl he was Asian (I think he was probably related to Henry Wu) he was sitting there and we thought he was being sick in hid t shirt, he was literally putting his mouth in his top and looking down so I swear he actually was or spitting or something. Then he kept looking down there so we were like 'oh my god he has a weapon in there' then he started moving seats and sitting with people and showing them down his top and also continuing to be sick or whatever in there. It was so weird!! Then the security man saw us scoping him out and gestured to us that he was nuts basically haha! Proper nutter regular i think. I love these crazy kids! Anyways we were then kicked out of the cider bar too and me and Martin tried to go to Fed Square for some drinks there but they were shutting too. Oh my god does this country not know the meaning of a bank holiday celebration? Luckily being a Geordie I know exactly where the 24 hour cafe is which meant we could continue putting the world to right!! So off we went there, we were also surrounded by alot of asian people playing cards. It was around 2am when we left and we were sitting outside the whole time there, how nice is it that I can sit outside and drink here at that time of day! Haha not meaning to rub it in!! Anyway poor Martin had to do Great Ocean Road the next day which was a shame as he was getting picked up in 4 hours or something after we left haha. He later told me vomit did happen poor lad!! I just had to go to work to deal with old people on the telephone and not until 10.30 am so not to bad really!! Good times indeed!!

I think that is me well and truely caught up. I have a busy time ahead. Tonight its Meghans Leaving drinks at Asian Beer Cafe ooh Thursday = $1 Champaaaaagne! And Scouse House are having a party on Saturday, Grand Prix and Paddys Day on Sunday. Brucey and Tommo are leaving Monday so I think Friday may also be a party night. And me and some of the boys from work Tom and Kyle have decided were gonna sort a trip to Taz out asap and also a vineyard tour!! Possibly going to Neighbours night on Monday again but not sure as its the same stars!

So until next time big hugs guys J xxxxx