Melbourne Trip

Rod and I headed to Melbourne over the weekend for 3 days. Took the red eye there, not too bad on Virgin. Arrived at 5.30am – nothing open. So sat in the casino for an hour or so watching Commonwealth games – trying to stay awake. Went for breakfast – mmmm belgian hot chocolate and egg/bacon roll at my favourite place – Theobroma Choc Lounge - it’s a must on every trip to Melbs Then we caught up with Rod’s best mate and family, theyhave a cute little one year old girl. Had lunch with them at Spencer Street shops, I did a little bit of shopping – only 20 mins worth – not enough… Got the bug… Holding out til Sunday…. Went and checked in to our mystery Wotif apartments, really nice, directly across from Queen Vic markets, close to trams. Chilled for a while, before heading to a laneway called Block Place for tea. The first place I  saw looked nice: Caffe e biscotti I liked it becuase it was also a bar. We shared yummy pumpkin bruschetta for entree -it was devine. Our mains were nice too, and so much cheaper than Perth. Didn’t stay for desert – being good…… Both exhausted by this time, with only 2 hours sleep on the trip over.

Saturday
Slept in before taking train south to see the TK’s – had the best day just hanging out with them. We went out for a nice lunch together before heading back to Haley and Richard’s new house to chill out. We played some dance game on the Wii with the kids. Had an early dinner – Mexican feast. Was great jsut sitting around the table with the family H + R so kindly dropped us home.

Sunday
Rod ran in the half marathon, while I slept and went shopping at DFO. Only had a 3 hour time frame for shopping, certianly not enough when I spent an hour in the Rivers store…. But got me some good bargins. Rod did so well, ran his half marathon in 1 hr and 45 mins He is a star. Afterwards we went to the lovely Fitzroy Gardens and spent the afternoon catching up with Rod’s cousins. It was nice and warm. So relaxing chilling out in the sun eating yummy food!  From there we went our separate ways I caught up with Marcus and Amber and Rod went to say goodbye to his mate. We left to ehad to the airport at 8.30pm. Had we known we could have left much later as Tiger flight was delayed!!! 3 hours later we were boarding our flight home and arriving back at our doorstep after 1.30am.

Awesome weekend though! Melbourne rocks!

Unwrapped

I had such an awesome weekend I felt motivated to blog about it! Friday night the UniClub turned 5 and I went to their birthday celebration with some friends from work. It was such a great night. Yummy canapes, a couple of glasses of wine and lots of dancing to the great band. An awesome way to start the weekend.

On Saturday I went to the WCE vs Carlton practice match at Leederville Oval. Was a great atmosphere, a nice change from Subi Oval. WCE won of course. Then I met my friend Liz and we ventured off to Unwrapped, markets in South Perth – all the stalls had hand-made items – it was unreal! I bought some cool things – the purple beads I have on today at work are new. I love the purple colour! I bought this awesome black onyx necklace with a lovely clasp that I can wear with my new dress to my friend’s wedding later this month.

In the evening a group of 10 went to Zappatas for Rod’s birthday – yummy Mexican food and great cocktails – a shame the bar closed at 9pm – a tad early I thought for a Saturday night. It was still a fun night even tho there were a few mishaps – don’t talk to me about Transperth

Sunday I vegged for most of the day which was needed and then went to Social Tennis in the afternoon with a couple of mates from tennis lessons. It was great – so glad we finally got to go. We all played quite well for our first time on grass. The swim and the wine afterwards made it a great way to finish a fantastic weekend.

Melbourne weekend

Last weekend we went to Melbourne on the red eye flight. Arrived in Melbourne Friday 5.3oam. It was freezing cold!!! We were lucky to be able to have a snooze at Rod’s cousins before heading into the city for a late lunch with Rod’s family. Very relaxing day. Beautiful sunny weather, but a tad cold. In the evening we headed to the footy, Eagles vs Carlton.

Both happy before the game

Good result for Rod’s team, my team were rubbish to say the least. But Le Cras was fantastic, he kicked an awesome goal! We had seats very close to the action, which I was happy about!.

We stayed in the city Friday night. I did a bit of shopping Saturday morning(very naughty of me, supposed to be saving for SA) and we had a lovely Belgian Hot choc at Theobroma Chocolate Lounge, Spencer Street, just the best. Basically its a mug of hot melted Belgian chocolate, my favourite!  Then we headed south on the train to my friend’s in Mitcham where we had a fantastic night at their Engagement Party.

Great shot

We spent a relaxing day with friends on the Sunday, eating left over party food and yummy chocolate cake. It was a fantastic weekend of footy, family, friends and shopping.