..sydney.. in not much detail >_<
because, unfortunately, i don't remember very much O_O
Friday 5th Sept
6:00pm
sun sets above the clouds. so pretty.. like soft snoes. wanted to jump outside and fluff around in them, but i didn't. because caro knows clouds = wet.
6:25pm
plane descends into Sydney! twinkly city lights. (why doesn't melbourne twinkle, dammit?!)
7:00pm
meet with Kaz & Aaron. rained lots. got to see Aaron's car. got to sit in Aaron's car. but i didn't get to sit in the back, my favourite spot (Kaz claimed back seat >_<). got driven to the hotel, so yey, i didn't get too wet. Aaron has a lot of stuffed toys in the boot..
the three of us sat around in the hotel waiting for Gav to arrive. keeping track of him was made difficult by the fact that the boy HAS NO MOBILE PHONE. omg. =_=
8:00ish
Gav! hugs all 'round. much catching up, and photoes. Gav was fascinated with Kaz's mobile phone. i think he needs one of his own..
8:30
Nut & Cammoo arrive at the hotel (yey). mentos, loot, peach rings & coke bottles distributed. glee ensues. ^_^
9:00ish
Chedter arrives.
Rain rain rain rain rain rain rain omg.
Dinner at Seoul-Ria... mmm. Spicy fried chicken, tasty hotpot with carrots & zucchini & beef & cabbage & naruto & sprouts & string mushrooms & button mushrooms, really sweet bulgogi, korean alcoholic lemonade served from teapots into tiny cups.. went woozy after 3 cups. ^^ can't really remember what else was et, but it was yummy...?
Then on to Passionflower for dessert.. except got distracted by the capsule arcade upstairs which has turned into a claw machine world of sorts.
CLAW MACHINE FULL OF YOSHIES.. and the BLACK YOSHI O_O aw man, i so wanted one. but they look impossible to claw >_<
Cammoo tried for Doraemons, but didn't manage it tonight.
Chetter & Nut clawed out 3 Dr Slump Poops for Kaz ^^
Going back downstairs to Passionflower.. flickes attackkkkkks >_< Aaron and I nearly tumbled down the stairs when I wouldn't let him have his arms back :p
"Children... not on the stairs.." Chedter & Carmoos warned. ahahaha, oops. but i didn't start it. not my fault..!
Menu-as-discus.. Kaz flung one to a nearby table.. oops.
Had a strawberry ice cream sundae. Gav had choc sundae. Kaz had western delight (?), Nutley had an espresso (which he later exploded all over the table), Ches had some mysterious asian combo dessert with green-ness and blackness and globby white dumpling-looking bits, Azza had icecream in a waffle nest, and Cammoo had choco strawberry crepe.
More flickies. Aaron got both Nut & Ches at once, and looked gleeful up until the point where they pounced on him. ^^
Upon leaving Capitol, more flickies attacks occur. I may have dinted my umbrella trying to defend myself.. pretty sure i came close to taking out Cammoo's eye.. sorry Cammoo!
Is now about 10 minutes to 3, and still not sleepy. Kaz and i pondered running downstairs to ask for WiFi activation... must resist..
Saturday 6th Sept
Late awakenings, trudge in the rain to bus to paddington craft market. Kaz bought me a wood pengie keyring, and a glass necklace. i bought 3 more for pressies for mum et al. Chedter finished his exam & foundsed us, so we dragged him around the rest of the market. he mostly bought food ^^ waffles and something shish kebabby looking onna stick..
drive in Chedter's civic to Kinokuniya. (car with sunroof O_O) still raining bucketloads.
stopped off at a comic shop after parking car. had the happies when i noticed the shelf full of FF figures..
Kinokuniya. found 4 manga & a pengie book, and stickers for my little cousins. Kaz decided to get 4 dr slump manga to go with her newly acquired poop toys.
Ches... bought half a library -_-"
JB. Thank God You're Here 1, 2 & 3 for Cammoo.. birthday present from us three ^^
Got found by Nutley & Cammoo.
Saw the famous Apple Store. Went past an EB, and the others attempted Guitar Hero.
Off to Chedter's house..
Fluffed around at Chedter's house, met his mama and the Chadlet.
Late dinner at Big John's or something.
Karaoke at 11:30 at K Lounge, where Aaron rejoined us.
Brown Brothers' Riesling is nice. Jager in red bull is still not very tasty. Green tea with a dash of chivas was lovely. After enough of those, chivas straight isn't too bad either...
Entertained self with the breath testing machine. Ran back and forth fetching cups of hot tea for the others all night. (Later found that they became more ill than me due to drinking straight jager shots.. eurgh.)
Nut had a nap. Karen got the cold shivers, became acquainted with the bathroom sink, and then napped. Which got her sat on by Chedter and Aaron..
I learned a dice drinkies game from Aaron. It was fun. (Probably would have been more fun had my drinks actually contained alcohol, but it was probably for the best that alcohol content was low..)
Played the dice game lots with Chedter since the others were preoccupied with singies. He kept losing. Whether it was on purpose or because he really did suck, I do not yet know..
Gradually became convinced that it was a brilliant idea to sing along to songs that i didn't even know the words to. Loudly.
Aaron took a quick nap on me. This did not deter my singing in the slightest.
Wandered out at 4am, slowly made our way back to the hotel on foot.. Aaron leaned on Kaz for support and decided to take a wheelie bin along with him -_-" It took some persuading to get him to let go of it..
I took the chivas bottle away from Chedter and attempted to drink some straight. It was not as bad-tasting as the last time. But it wasn't interesting enough to continue drinking it, either.
The six of us managed to make it back to the hotel in one piece, though Chedter stopped to pick Aaron off his feet & swing him around in dizzying circles just to get him more off-balance...
Cammoo, Nutley and I stopped in the foyer to acquire Nut some skittles lollies from the gumball machine, while Kaz and Chedter looked after Aaron who was at that point determinedly hanging on to a fence.
Up at the room, we pulled apart the beds & mattresses so that everyone would have something to sleep on. So we did end up having a slumber party in sydney, just not quite the way Kaz had originally hoped ^^ since none of the syddies had thought to bring pyjamas...
I'd had far too much red bull, and was fidgetty until about 6am.. couldn't get to sleep. while the others snoozed, i played piano on the bedsheets, made shadow puppets, plaited my hair, tossed and turned..
Then Aaron's phone alarm went off at 7.. and 7:15.. and 7:30... in the end, we all got up, unable to take it anymore.
Flicked through the tv channels as Carms slept. Chedter threw the remaining blankets on her, and she GROWLED. It was a scary sound. O_O
Aaron shrieked like a girl, and immediately dived under the other bedsheets to hide.
Apparently Cammoo is Not To Be Messed With first thing in the morning. (Low blood pressure monster..?)
Chedter had to go take his papa for a father's day lunch, so he departed early. The rest of us bummed around in the apartment, cleaning it up somewhat, until about 11am when we went for a pho breakfast.
Then a trip to starbucks for wake-up coffees. I was running on one hour's sleep, so everything was feeling rather surreal.
NSW State Library. Discovery that it is believed australian-chinese make fried rice with tomato sauce and coleslaw dressing :s
Wanderings around the city.
Drive back to Chedter's house so that Cammoo and Nutley could pick up Nut's car and go see Cammoo's mama.
Followed Aaron back to his house so he could retrieve some boxes and clean himself up.
Met his pomeranian. Found that it is EXACTLY like every other pomeranian I have ever known. Sat in the kitchen and met his grandpapa. Watched chinese Dancing With The Stars with grandpapa and Kaz.
Met his grannie, who at first thought we were waiting for Aaron's sister. She was cool. (Later discovered his grannie went back upstairs to scold him for leaving us downstairs alone ^^)
Met his sister and mum and dad. Can't remember much about them except that his sister had pretty curled hair, and his parents wore glasses...
And omg, they had such asian numberplates. -_-" Every single one of them.
We scurried back to Chedter's place to WoW until dinnertime.
Return of Cammoo and Nutley. Chadlet showed us card tricks which were cool and all but we were kind of hungry and in a hurry.. XD
Fish Market for dinner.. LOBTER! And black pepper beef with sugarsnap peas & snowpeas. And orange-coloured fried rice. And a stewed pork belly thing. And a steamed yellow-fin fissie. Mmmmm.
Kaz and Azza kept trying to make me eat more..
And then there was still dessert =_= watermelon and oranges, and sponge cake, and fried sesame seed puffs, and mango sago...
Rolled back to the hotel.
Would have WoWed with Kaz and Azza, but discovered that hotel will only let you use WiFi from ONE computer.. which was pointless, so we sent Aaron home and we went to sleep. (After reading manga.)
Monday 8th Sept
check out at 10:30.
breakfast at cafe de macau.. my traditional macaroni and toast and hot milk tea. Kaz was engrossed in a TVB program.. some drama soapie thing about families and aunts-that-weren't-aunts..
wandering down george st checking out shops. stopped at capitol again to try for more dr slump poops for Karen.. she got 2 pink and 2 dark brown, completing her sets of poos. glee ensues.
Chedter came to find us, and we went to meet Carms for lunch.
japanese place near kinokuniya. Cammoo & Kaz had corn ramen, Chetter had unagi rice bento box, I had gyoza. 3 melon ice cream sodas (though Ched's was.. icecreamless), and iced green tea cappucino for Cammoo.
i tried a little piece of eel, it tasted much like a small teriyaki barramundi with lots of little bones.
decided not to go to zoo after all, but rather continue shopping. so Chetter took us to the Strand arcade to see the Crumpler shop. (Kaz and I decided to custom design our own crumpler at the fitzroy shop in melby ^^ homicidal axe-wielding kittens, yeah..)
more shops. Kaz saw a swarovski star ring she loved.
looked at lots of models & puzzles in a hobby shop.
5pm went to see Azzador at work. only it turned out he'd gone and decided he was too sick to work.. so he came to meet us and drive us to the airport.
quick stop by Cammoo's work to pick up something she had bought for Karen.. Say Yes To Carrots..!!
Kaz was intrigued and completely engrossed in the carrot products all the way to the airport.
Got lost for 2 minutes. Got un-lost. Apparently one is not meant to listen to Chedter when he suggests shortcuts.
Check In.. Aaron was fascinated by our Velocity cards.
The boys followed us in, and Aaron shouted us to Harry de Wheels pies & hotdogs for dinner.
I was fascinated by my pie.. a scoop of tato mash, a scoop of mushed peas, and a ginormous crater lake of gravy. Was then taught by the boys how to eat said pie. Stabbing and twisting and mauling, oh my! (Poor pie. It never had a chance.)
Gate.. more flickies. Kaz whapped the boys with her rolled up Leo poster. She was gleeful at having gotten last flick as we got on the plane..
1 and a half hours went by very quickly as Karen & I mariokarted the ENTIRE WAY.
I think the guy sitting next to me was trying to talk to me, but I was just a liiiiiitle preoccupied.. >_<>
home, and a little WoW ^^ Cala took Kazlar & Lithey through Scarlet, and then it was finally time for bed..
Friday 5th Sept
6:00pm
sun sets above the clouds. so pretty.. like soft snoes. wanted to jump outside and fluff around in them, but i didn't. because caro knows clouds = wet.
6:25pm
plane descends into Sydney! twinkly city lights. (why doesn't melbourne twinkle, dammit?!)
7:00pm
meet with Kaz & Aaron. rained lots. got to see Aaron's car. got to sit in Aaron's car. but i didn't get to sit in the back, my favourite spot (Kaz claimed back seat >_<). got driven to the hotel, so yey, i didn't get too wet. Aaron has a lot of stuffed toys in the boot..
the three of us sat around in the hotel waiting for Gav to arrive. keeping track of him was made difficult by the fact that the boy HAS NO MOBILE PHONE. omg. =_=
8:00ish
Gav! hugs all 'round. much catching up, and photoes. Gav was fascinated with Kaz's mobile phone. i think he needs one of his own..
8:30
Nut & Cammoo arrive at the hotel (yey). mentos, loot, peach rings & coke bottles distributed. glee ensues. ^_^
9:00ish
Chedter arrives.
Rain rain rain rain rain rain rain omg.
Dinner at Seoul-Ria... mmm. Spicy fried chicken, tasty hotpot with carrots & zucchini & beef & cabbage & naruto & sprouts & string mushrooms & button mushrooms, really sweet bulgogi, korean alcoholic lemonade served from teapots into tiny cups.. went woozy after 3 cups. ^^ can't really remember what else was et, but it was yummy...?
Then on to Passionflower for dessert.. except got distracted by the capsule arcade upstairs which has turned into a claw machine world of sorts.
CLAW MACHINE FULL OF YOSHIES.. and the BLACK YOSHI O_O aw man, i so wanted one. but they look impossible to claw >_<
Cammoo tried for Doraemons, but didn't manage it tonight.
Chetter & Nut clawed out 3 Dr Slump Poops for Kaz ^^
Going back downstairs to Passionflower.. flickes attackkkkkks >_< Aaron and I nearly tumbled down the stairs when I wouldn't let him have his arms back :p
"Children... not on the stairs.." Chedter & Carmoos warned. ahahaha, oops. but i didn't start it. not my fault..!
Menu-as-discus.. Kaz flung one to a nearby table.. oops.
Had a strawberry ice cream sundae. Gav had choc sundae. Kaz had western delight (?), Nutley had an espresso (which he later exploded all over the table), Ches had some mysterious asian combo dessert with green-ness and blackness and globby white dumpling-looking bits, Azza had icecream in a waffle nest, and Cammoo had choco strawberry crepe.
More flickies. Aaron got both Nut & Ches at once, and looked gleeful up until the point where they pounced on him. ^^
Upon leaving Capitol, more flickies attacks occur. I may have dinted my umbrella trying to defend myself.. pretty sure i came close to taking out Cammoo's eye.. sorry Cammoo!
Is now about 10 minutes to 3, and still not sleepy. Kaz and i pondered running downstairs to ask for WiFi activation... must resist..
Saturday 6th Sept
Late awakenings, trudge in the rain to bus to paddington craft market. Kaz bought me a wood pengie keyring, and a glass necklace. i bought 3 more for pressies for mum et al. Chedter finished his exam & foundsed us, so we dragged him around the rest of the market. he mostly bought food ^^ waffles and something shish kebabby looking onna stick..
drive in Chedter's civic to Kinokuniya. (car with sunroof O_O) still raining bucketloads.
stopped off at a comic shop after parking car. had the happies when i noticed the shelf full of FF figures..
Kinokuniya. found 4 manga & a pengie book, and stickers for my little cousins. Kaz decided to get 4 dr slump manga to go with her newly acquired poop toys.
Ches... bought half a library -_-"
JB. Thank God You're Here 1, 2 & 3 for Cammoo.. birthday present from us three ^^
Got found by Nutley & Cammoo.
Saw the famous Apple Store. Went past an EB, and the others attempted Guitar Hero.
Off to Chedter's house..
Fluffed around at Chedter's house, met his mama and the Chadlet.
Late dinner at Big John's or something.
Karaoke at 11:30 at K Lounge, where Aaron rejoined us.
Brown Brothers' Riesling is nice. Jager in red bull is still not very tasty. Green tea with a dash of chivas was lovely. After enough of those, chivas straight isn't too bad either...
Entertained self with the breath testing machine. Ran back and forth fetching cups of hot tea for the others all night. (Later found that they became more ill than me due to drinking straight jager shots.. eurgh.)
Nut had a nap. Karen got the cold shivers, became acquainted with the bathroom sink, and then napped. Which got her sat on by Chedter and Aaron..
I learned a dice drinkies game from Aaron. It was fun. (Probably would have been more fun had my drinks actually contained alcohol, but it was probably for the best that alcohol content was low..)
Played the dice game lots with Chedter since the others were preoccupied with singies. He kept losing. Whether it was on purpose or because he really did suck, I do not yet know..
Gradually became convinced that it was a brilliant idea to sing along to songs that i didn't even know the words to. Loudly.
Aaron took a quick nap on me. This did not deter my singing in the slightest.
Wandered out at 4am, slowly made our way back to the hotel on foot.. Aaron leaned on Kaz for support and decided to take a wheelie bin along with him -_-" It took some persuading to get him to let go of it..
I took the chivas bottle away from Chedter and attempted to drink some straight. It was not as bad-tasting as the last time. But it wasn't interesting enough to continue drinking it, either.
The six of us managed to make it back to the hotel in one piece, though Chedter stopped to pick Aaron off his feet & swing him around in dizzying circles just to get him more off-balance...
Cammoo, Nutley and I stopped in the foyer to acquire Nut some skittles lollies from the gumball machine, while Kaz and Chedter looked after Aaron who was at that point determinedly hanging on to a fence.
Up at the room, we pulled apart the beds & mattresses so that everyone would have something to sleep on. So we did end up having a slumber party in sydney, just not quite the way Kaz had originally hoped ^^ since none of the syddies had thought to bring pyjamas...
I'd had far too much red bull, and was fidgetty until about 6am.. couldn't get to sleep. while the others snoozed, i played piano on the bedsheets, made shadow puppets, plaited my hair, tossed and turned..
Then Aaron's phone alarm went off at 7.. and 7:15.. and 7:30... in the end, we all got up, unable to take it anymore.
Flicked through the tv channels as Carms slept. Chedter threw the remaining blankets on her, and she GROWLED. It was a scary sound. O_O
Aaron shrieked like a girl, and immediately dived under the other bedsheets to hide.
Apparently Cammoo is Not To Be Messed With first thing in the morning. (Low blood pressure monster..?)
Chedter had to go take his papa for a father's day lunch, so he departed early. The rest of us bummed around in the apartment, cleaning it up somewhat, until about 11am when we went for a pho breakfast.
Then a trip to starbucks for wake-up coffees. I was running on one hour's sleep, so everything was feeling rather surreal.
NSW State Library. Discovery that it is believed australian-chinese make fried rice with tomato sauce and coleslaw dressing :s
Wanderings around the city.
Drive back to Chedter's house so that Cammoo and Nutley could pick up Nut's car and go see Cammoo's mama.
Followed Aaron back to his house so he could retrieve some boxes and clean himself up.
Met his pomeranian. Found that it is EXACTLY like every other pomeranian I have ever known. Sat in the kitchen and met his grandpapa. Watched chinese Dancing With The Stars with grandpapa and Kaz.
Met his grannie, who at first thought we were waiting for Aaron's sister. She was cool. (Later discovered his grannie went back upstairs to scold him for leaving us downstairs alone ^^)
Met his sister and mum and dad. Can't remember much about them except that his sister had pretty curled hair, and his parents wore glasses...
And omg, they had such asian numberplates. -_-" Every single one of them.
We scurried back to Chedter's place to WoW until dinnertime.
Return of Cammoo and Nutley. Chadlet showed us card tricks which were cool and all but we were kind of hungry and in a hurry.. XD
Fish Market for dinner.. LOBTER! And black pepper beef with sugarsnap peas & snowpeas. And orange-coloured fried rice. And a stewed pork belly thing. And a steamed yellow-fin fissie. Mmmmm.
Kaz and Azza kept trying to make me eat more..
And then there was still dessert =_= watermelon and oranges, and sponge cake, and fried sesame seed puffs, and mango sago...
Rolled back to the hotel.
Would have WoWed with Kaz and Azza, but discovered that hotel will only let you use WiFi from ONE computer.. which was pointless, so we sent Aaron home and we went to sleep. (After reading manga.)
Monday 8th Sept
check out at 10:30.
breakfast at cafe de macau.. my traditional macaroni and toast and hot milk tea. Kaz was engrossed in a TVB program.. some drama soapie thing about families and aunts-that-weren't-aunts..
wandering down george st checking out shops. stopped at capitol again to try for more dr slump poops for Karen.. she got 2 pink and 2 dark brown, completing her sets of poos. glee ensues.
Chedter came to find us, and we went to meet Carms for lunch.
japanese place near kinokuniya. Cammoo & Kaz had corn ramen, Chetter had unagi rice bento box, I had gyoza. 3 melon ice cream sodas (though Ched's was.. icecreamless), and iced green tea cappucino for Cammoo.
i tried a little piece of eel, it tasted much like a small teriyaki barramundi with lots of little bones.
decided not to go to zoo after all, but rather continue shopping. so Chetter took us to the Strand arcade to see the Crumpler shop. (Kaz and I decided to custom design our own crumpler at the fitzroy shop in melby ^^ homicidal axe-wielding kittens, yeah..)
more shops. Kaz saw a swarovski star ring she loved.
looked at lots of models & puzzles in a hobby shop.
5pm went to see Azzador at work. only it turned out he'd gone and decided he was too sick to work.. so he came to meet us and drive us to the airport.
quick stop by Cammoo's work to pick up something she had bought for Karen.. Say Yes To Carrots..!!
Kaz was intrigued and completely engrossed in the carrot products all the way to the airport.
Got lost for 2 minutes. Got un-lost. Apparently one is not meant to listen to Chedter when he suggests shortcuts.
Check In.. Aaron was fascinated by our Velocity cards.
The boys followed us in, and Aaron shouted us to Harry de Wheels pies & hotdogs for dinner.
I was fascinated by my pie.. a scoop of tato mash, a scoop of mushed peas, and a ginormous crater lake of gravy. Was then taught by the boys how to eat said pie. Stabbing and twisting and mauling, oh my! (Poor pie. It never had a chance.)
Gate.. more flickies. Kaz whapped the boys with her rolled up Leo poster. She was gleeful at having gotten last flick as we got on the plane..
1 and a half hours went by very quickly as Karen & I mariokarted the ENTIRE WAY.
I think the guy sitting next to me was trying to talk to me, but I was just a liiiiiitle preoccupied.. >_<>
home, and a little WoW ^^ Cala took Kazlar & Lithey through Scarlet, and then it was finally time for bed..
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