Road Trip: Uncut

I find it hard to believe it's almost Wednesday and that it was a week ago since I left for Sydney! I've been meaning to post something in the last few days but it's been pretty busy for me. We (Dave, Garry and I) drove back into Melbourne around 5:30pm on Saturday, but didn't have time to go home because Dave had work at 6pm. Since we took Dave's car up to Sydney, Garry and I ended up meeting others and watched "Ocean's 12" while Dave was working. I ended up getting home around 1:30am and then I had to unpack and shower and all that.

Sunday morning I had to wake up early for an 11am shift at David Jones. Just coming home from a road trip with little sleep, I struggled through work and was happy to get home. Ann and Anna came over to watch some "Cold Case" episodes and later that night I went to Donny Pannies with Chris, Cliff, Garry and Julz. I slept around 2am Sunday night.

I had work at 12pm yesterday and needless to say, I was pretty fatigued still, I hadn't caught up on my sleep and I was constantly doing something. The shift was quite good actually, not many people came in to shop so I was relieved. Later last night, Anna and I had dinner with Vo and Carmel as a farewell before Carmel trekked off to South America and the US. This meant I had another relatively late night.

Today I woke up early to go to my orthodontist appointment and then had to go to the city for an interview. I then came home and it's been the first time since the road trip that I've managed to just sit and chill for a bit. Furthermore, I had the opportunity to use the computer because no one was home! I didn't end up doing much except play Pro Evo 3 as my d/l speed has been capped once again. It's taken me since Sunday to d/l "The OC", "North Shore", "The Apprentice" and "Joey" but I still haven't finished d/l any of them! Arrgghh

Mm anyway I think I've rambled on enough and I guess you guys wanna know how Sydney was? Well I enjoyed myself thoroughly! I would have liked to have stayed maybe one more day but I think we made the most of our brief stay. Wednesday was spent packing and driving up to Sydney, we intended to leave Garry's place around 1pm but it ended up being closer to 3pm by the time we left. We made quite a few stops including one interesting detour to the "Hedge Maze" which I've got on video. We ended up crashing at some motel at around 3am, had dinner (which was 2min noodles, egg and canned tuna haha) then slept pretty quickly.

We intended to make the most of our stay there so we set our alarm for 10:30am. We got up slowly but eventually made our way to the train station close to noon. Here we caught a train to the city and that was where we would spend most of our day. We ended up walking around George and Pitt Sts, as well as going on a ferry around the harbour which was definitely worthwhile. During lunchtime, we spotted Ben Lee busking at Circular Quay and took a few photos with him. Around 6pm we booked three tickets to the short film festival, Resfest and then headed home to clean up and get ready for a night out. The short films were pretty good, some were very funny (we all agreed that "Pol Pot's Birthday" was probably the funniest) and overall clever and entertaining. That concluded around 9:30pm and we decided to walk back to the car, which was parked in Chinatown, and make our way to dinner, which Dave recommended be the renowned Harry's Cafe de Wheels which was on the other side of the city in Woolloomooloo, which we learnt on the cruise was known to Sydneysiders as "The Loo". I have to say though, anyone who visits Sydney must have a go at those hotdogs because they are definitely something different. At $4.90 for a big tasty dog with peas, pie meat and sauces, it was value for money! After dinner we thought about going clubbing at the well known "Gas" nightclub but we had had enough for the day.

Friday morning we were woken up early by the motel owners and packed our stuff, ready to go. We had yum cha for lunch at East Ocean which was recommended. The food was not too bad, but we didn't get a chance to check out the main attraction, which is supposedly their 5-star toilets. (???) However, all was not lost because the one and only Jana Wendt sat on the table right next to us! We felt too embarrassed to harass her for an autograph or anything so we ended up sneakily taking photos of her...much like the paparazzi. We had planned to leave for Melbourne soon after lunch as we decided to take the scenic route back along the east coast, which would add a few hours on to our travel time, but we could not leave Sydney without checking out Bondi Beach. It was fairly overcast that day, but the beach still looked nice and there were groups of people surfing and mucking around on the sand. Straight after Bondi, we made one last stop at Krispy Kreme to stock up for all the people back in Melbourne.

We left KK at around 4:30pm and spent a good 8hrs driving with minimal stops, save a petrol station and some Chinese restaurant in Batesman's Bay. We had gone really hard in terms of travelling and crashed at some motel, I don't even know which town it was in. Had another early start and hit the road by about 10:30am. We travelled pretty hard with not many stops and as mentioned at the start of this entry, arrived at Dave's place around 5:15pm.

Mm, I've tried not to elaborate on a lot, with little instances and fancy happenings to reduce my relatively long blogs but added in the bits that I thought were relevant, so I believe it's a bit bland in terms of expression. Hopefully someone has had the determination to sit through it all. Anyway, I'm still tired so I'll be off. Bye!