Melbs

After Cassie arriving, we had a day to rest and then off to Melbourne, which is south in Victoria. Flight was great (only a short hour and 5 min). Upon landing, we scooped up our rental car and headed to meet some family friends. We went down to Saint Kilda beach and ate some lunch, walked around and got some yummy ice cream. While my parents drove my granny to her friends house, Cassie and I hung out with Tarin ( an old friend from when I still lived in South Africa) and went to the park to walk to dogs. Once my parents returned we got dropped off at my other family friends house and had a nice bbq.

 The next day we went to Brighton beach. It is a bay so its semi flat water and a darker rocky sand, but has these adorable huts that people pay thousands of dollars for! Just to have a storage place on the beach...that shit cray. They do make for an awesome picture, and some are painted very nicely. Our favorite was the Australian flag one. After the beach we went to eat lunch at a nice café called The school yard. It is an old church converted into a restaurant. It had some very delish food. Later that night at my mom's friend (Cheryl) we had a big dinner, filled with people I didn't know but none the less it was good. Danielle is my moms other friends daughter, she is a tad bit younger (21) but a really cool girl. She took us out to a bar called The George. Super fun spot and there were some very nice looking Aussie guys there :).

On Saturday we took a drive up the coast to Red Hill, where there are a lot of vineyards. Before heading to the vineyard for lunch, we stopped at a place that makes homemade pies. Such a beautiful setting. The restaurant at the vineyard was bridal shower over-kill. Literally every girl I saw walk past had a bride to be sash, and they had a wedding that night they had to start setting up for! Besides the bridal mayhem the food (pizzas) and wine was amazing! After leaving the vineyard we popped in at a small beach, hung out there for a short period of time and then headed back home. Cassie and I had plans to go out with Tarin, her wonderful boyfriend and some of his friends, so we needed a nap! We ended up going to a nice burger joint and then made our way down Chapel street ( where all the big clubs and bars are located).  We went to two places, but I can not remember the names. We made up a game to see who could get the most free drinks, the boys had their theories on how a gal could score a free drink and we had planned to test these theories. Unfortunately, Cassie and I are too shy to play this game sober, so we did not score any free drinks from random guys....Sad day.

 

We came to Melbs just in time, on Sunday there was a big festival going on called the Saint Kilda Festival. The street that we went to the first day we got there was completely closed off and there was live music on a bunch of stages ( all Aussie bands, but still enjoyable). Over 400,000 people were estimated to be there, that's 4 times more than Tomorroworld! Cassie and I took a tram to the festival, and spent most of the day there until we had to meet up with the parentals to go to the airport. Besides music there were lots of vendors selling t-shirts, jewelry and much more. we watched a volleyball tournament and just chilled on the beach. Very fun day, but our shoulders were fried ( no sunscreen was used, poor decision...) Back to Sydney we go to fill our days with everlasting fun.