Week One - Australia

SYDNEY

Basically CG and I laid on Bondi Beach for two days soaking up the wonderful rays. You can read about my initial thoughts in my first post from down under. We have declared that the hottest bartender in Bondi area works at Mad Pizza, on top of being incredibly attractive he was a doll! Another noteable happening is that we got hit on by three confident high school students, we kindly informed them that we were older than we appeared hha. We chatted for a while and were very flattered. As a rule I try to be as sensitive as possible in those 'I'm super not interested situations' because it takes a lot of 'balls' (for lack of a better word) to approach and commence conversation! So, good for them, good for us!

Day 3

We left this.

And we found ourselves here.

The view from MF's apartment :)

MELBOURNE // ST. KILDA

We arrived at Tullamarine on Wednesday afternoon around two and took a bus to Kings Cross tram station where Chloe and I were met by Mr. MF himself! The reunion was epic, running, hugging the whole sha-bang which was promptly followed up by MF handing us literal 'Friend Cards.' A green plastic card that had big block letters across the front reading FRIEND. So we immediately knew where we stood haha, just kidding they were cards that would allow us to ride the tram system. And we were off.

Day 4 - Great Ocean Road

After a great night of catching up with a few old friends and making some new ones, CG and I rented a car and sort of attached ourselves to another group of three adventurers. This three-some was kind enough to invite us on their Great Ocean Road Camping Trip Extravaganza, the only way it could have worked out better is if MF didn't have to work. But CG and I bid him farewell and said YES to this experience.

We saw kangaroos in the wild, and koalas! We stayed in some beautiful free camp sites, we drove on the left side of the road from Torquay all the way to the last of the piglets! 

Day 6 - Sunday Session!!

Around 11am we headed down to the beach front, found a free community grill top and made a delicious brunch of scrambled eggs and steak. We ate off the grill like animals, sharing forks and drinking mimosas! It was a beautiful moment! 

Promptly after returning from the beach we made a massive spaghetti feast and played a hilarious game of guys vs. girls charades. Then we made our way across town on the tram to The Thornbury Theater for one hell of an amazing concert. Firstly the venue was beautiful, very classy feeling, with serve yourself water and plenty of room for groovin'! 

Nahko and his band rocked it out, hard. The coolest part was that his guitarist is from Minnesota and even knows one of our good buddies. Little Buffalo, or better known as Dustin Thomas has one of the most admirable stage presence I have seen in a long time! His smile was highly contagious and his dancing was sexy to say the least. 

We met an amazing new friend we met on the train, Mohed, who we invited to play plane charades with us and then he even came to the concert with us on a whim, his openness to the situation and 7 random strangers was a thing of beauty! 

Day 7 

Unfortunately CG had to depart back to the states, her agency would fall apart without her so I guess I'll have to try to keep it together. Miss her already but luckily I am surrounded by a few other amazing pals!

On this lazy Monday we watched a few movies because it was rainy and MF and I started planning how we would celebrate my birthday week!!!

We rounded out the evening with some Boozy Bingo at Base Backpackers Hostel. It was really fun although I was pretty offended by the extensive abuse of a beautiful young lady entitled 'the bingo bitch!'

I am having the time of my life and I am so lucky to have met the best people! Can't wait to tell you more, remember to keep living in your present and reaching for the stars! 

xoxox, kp