A week gone by......in Melbourne

Ok a quick update of what I have been upto as I'm sure its really exciting!!
Right well we returned to the Queen Vic night market, ate some curry and had some wine. The band wasn't as good as the week before, it was a Beatles cover band and they didn't look like them and didn't sing good either. We didn't stay late.
We got back to the hostel and decided to head into the hostel bar. We had a few drinks, chatted to the barman (hairy man!) and when he finished we asked if he wanted to join us. We had vouchers for cheap beer - which was not a good idea. We got pretty drunk but had a laugh so it was ok. I think the night ended around 3am. It was fun.
We also headed back to the free outdoor cinema on Friday (I don't know what it was with this week...) with a bottle of wine! We watched Muriels Wedding and drank our wine, it was nice. We got back to the hostel bottle shop and got another bottle - all in all we went through 3 bottles between us, were a little drunk - went to bed and then remembered we wanted to have french toast so got back up, went to the 7 eleven and got eggs. Made and ate that at around 3 am!! Yummy.....!
The city on Saturday morning was hot and smoky...there are loads of bush fires in Victoria at the moment and the smoke had been blown into the city. We moved into Emma's uncles on Saturday morning time. We chilled out there and then in the evening headed to the outdoor cinema again. This time for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (sp?), no wine, but we did have fish and chips. I had a really yummy grilled burrimundi with some parsley sauce on it. I have to say thats one thing I prefer about the fish and chip shops over here, you don't have to have it battered. You can choose grilled, crumbed or battered. Anyway, the film was ok and food was good. We got the train back afterwards and off to bed.
I did not sleep well but we had decided to go to St Kilda on Sunday morning for the market and the beach. Another really hot day, got up to 42 degrees!! We got to St Kilda and ate some breakfast and then wandered round the craft market. I had forgotten my hat and so bought a new one, was too hot to be on a beach in direct sunlight without some protection. After checking out the craft stalls which were rather nice we headed down to the beach.
I got changed in to my swimming stuff, yes I cover up, which consists of shorts and a protective t-shirt. We found a spot and Emma sat down, I headed into the sea - oh my god it was cold!!! I eventually managed to get right in, tried to snorkel but that was rather boring as it was just sand and further out was really cold.... I chilled for a bit in the sea and then came out to dry. Emma then went in for a bit. We chilled on the beach for a while then went off and had a sorbet each and a drink. We met back up with Rod, Emma's uncle, and headed back to the house in the boiling hot car!! Watched a film in the afternoon and chilled for the rest of the day.
Now yesterday we didn't do much during the day, popped to the post office, had a drink and cake.... Last night though we had Neighbours night!! Yes it is sad..... Yes it is tacky..... And yes it is full of British people!!! But we had been promised Stuart (Blair), Toadie (Ryan) and Steph (Carla) and I wanted to get a picture with them!!!
There was alot of waiting around, you wait at the start for them to come out and then they do a couple of, stupid, questions each and then you wait for them to make their way round the crowd to you.
When Toadie came out he had someones question in his pocket and moaned cos he gets asked alot of the same stuff, he pulled it out and it was something like "How did you get that blonde cos you're so fat" his response was "Every time I fu#k your mother she gives me a cookie" - I felt it was appropriate. There was cricket talk....which got all the Engliah singing Barmy Army!! Toadie was quite a bit smaller in real life, not fat at all!!
Steph seemed a little drunk but very happy. She had stupid questions too.....one was "Why did the turkey cross the road?" and the other was "You don't really use f#cking soda stream surely?" - apparently she has done an advert for it. She was really beautiful though and petite.
Stuart......well what can I say but perfection!! I would quite happily sleep with this man, marry him and, if he so wished, have his children too!! He was very sexy!! I liked him alot!!! As did Emma, she was going crazy clicking her camera taking pictures of random parts of his body - he did have a nice arse though! He was asked a Do, Date or Dump question with Mrs Mangel, Helen Daniels and Madge Bishop. In their order in answered Dump, Date and Do (apparently just to piss Harold off).
After the random questions we went and stood at the bar and then had to wait for them to come round. Toadie reached us first, he wasn't very chatted, he asked if we wanted our pictures taken and I was like "well thats why we've come...." which he just laughed at! We then said to him that he didn't really need to go to the UK as it comes to him in this bar. He seems to do these evening quite often, which makes you questions his life!! Although apparently he is married with a baby! There is a bit of a season finale happening here where Toadie gets shot.....I asked if he died and he said no - I think he was just saying that!!
We then had Stuart, wow, and he has just returned from the UK so I asked if he had done panto (kinda taking the piss) it turned out he'd done 2.... Dick Whittington and Cinderella (played Buttons)!! Ha ha. I think he is returning to the UK. He was just the right height and was a really friendly guy. We liked him best....
Steph was next, her body guard had a bit of work!!, she was a bit all over the place. Seemed good fun though as she was dancing around and really happy. She seemed happy to chat as well but I didn't really know what to ask her plus she seemed pretty drunk. We got our pictures taken with her though and she was really nice.
I think these nights, although possibly annoying, make them feel really famous!!! Its quite funny. I liked meeting the stars but the rest of the concept was not really me. They were doing a quiz and other competitions while the stars were working their way round. It was quite a good night. We stayed until all the famous ones had left and then we headed off. I am glad I met who I did, I don't think I'll feel the need to go to another night.... We do have the neighbours tour booked for Christmas eve with Lorraine and Graham though which will be ok!
Anyway so there is my week, we have Robbie on Sunday and then we are off to Adelaide to meet Lorraine and Graham and do the Great Ocean road back!! Should be good.
Hope everyone is well.
Congratulations to Louise and Phil who were married on Saturday!!! Well done, you guys looked great - my mum emailed a couple of pictures! xx
Dawn
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