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-Start of road trip
-McCafe
-Cafe for lunch and massive sheep
-Sitting in the front
-Arriving in Canberra
-Sunbathing in winter
-Canberra the quiet capital city
-Real apple juice that tastes like apple juice
-Weird convos like disabled theme park
-Bomb response truck on the way back (very scary for me) it was all fine...we think
-More weird convos whilst watching the never ending house rules ( went on for 2 and half hours)
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It was time for some retail therapy today (and to get some warmer clothes for when we go down south). So we headed off to the mini shopping centre. When we were there I found an amazing shop that I'm now obsessed with called Typo. It is like a station
ary/home wear shop and everything in it is soooo cool. I could have literally bought everything but I dont think it all would've fit in my suitcase! But I did buy some super awesome notebooks as they were 3 for 10 dollars (£5).
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For today's activities we went to a neighbouring town for a wednesday market. It was massive! Full of crafts, clothes, jewelry, homeware, food etc. However nothing really that was my style so I got incredibly bored half way round but my aunt insisted we go around the WHOLE thing.
After about an hour and a half we decided to stop and head to the pub for a drink and lunch. We had chips and chicken wings. It was funny because the people on the table next to us were sophisticated with their steaks and knife and forks and here we were eating greasy chicken wings with our fingers like animals. (They kept hiving us funny looks but who cares, they were good)
Then we went home for a bit after going to the golf club. We left early so that we were able to see the sunset and hopefully kangaroos but we weren't so lucky with the second part. Like Sunday, the sunset was really pretty! We then proceeded to have dinner and play cards before going home to....you guessed it...play more cards!
I didn't take as many but here are some pictures!
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I still cant believe I'm actually sticking to this, I'm hoping to last at least a week though. Today I woke up a lot later than I have been which was good. We then went to town to look around the shops, go to the bank and do some food shopping in Woolworths (or wollies as aussies call it). I always find it fascinating looking around a different countries supermarket to see all the different brands and foods they have! However I was surprised to see a lot of the things were exactly the same as in the UK.
After that we went back home and had lunch before taking a drive to halfway mountain and from there we walked right to the top. I always find walks very refreshing especially when I walk off ahead of everyone else and get some alone time with nature. Along the way I also saw some boys doing abseiling down the mountain which was very brave but I think I could do that one day!
At the top there was an absolutely breathtaking view of the land and rivers and sea in the distance. We just spent ages taking it all in and playing 'king of the Castle' as some might say. The walk wasn't too bad either and it was very sunny and warm which was a bonus.
After walking back down we headed home to play cards with grandma, have dinner (which was steak on the barbeque with corn on the cob) and play more cards.
The weather has been especially cold tonight however as long as you're inside with heating on its fine! During the day ever since I got here its been blue skies and nice and sunny which always makes everything feel better and in the sun it is incredibly warm!
Anyways here the pictures I took today:
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I'm sorry I didn't post yesterday (nothing much happened as we arrived in the morning, caught up with family then went to sleep at 6pm as we were all extremely jet lagged). Although we did get to see my families house (which is amazing) that is right next to the local park and surrounded by palm trees so it almost looks like you're in the middle of the garden. My cousin's little black pug was also over and as she is only 10 weeks old she was tiny and decided to bite everything within reach!
Anyways, back to today. So it started very early at 5am as I went to sleep so early the night before. We were treated to a full English cooked breakfast made on the barbecue, which was very weird considering its the middle of winter (their winter is like our spring/summer) but also yummy! After mum and grandma were back from church, we all went down to the marina to go on their boat down the river!
It was such a lovely day and as the water was completely flat with no waves it was very relaxing. We drove up the river, got off at a few mini beaches, had lunch, caught some prawns to use as bait for fishing, attempted to do some fishing (which was pretty boring as we weren't successful at all) and watched the sunset go down on the river, which was pretty spectacular and a perfect photo opportunity!
Tonight has been spent eating dinner and playing cards inside with the heating on as it is pretty chilly at night!
Highlights of the day:
-Almost pushing my mum in the river when we were taking a photo
-Completely messing up the scoring table of a card game and having a laughing fit and getting into a delusional state (I won the game though).
-The beautiful sunset over the river and looking at all the big houses on the river that I could only dream of!
Talking of good photo opportunities here is some more pictures from today!
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I am writing this from the 12 hour plane journey to Singapore at the moment and wow its long!
For my holiday to Australia this year I have decided to record my time by writing posts on this blog. Not only will it be a good way to let my friends know what I'm up to but so I can savour these memories!
After an extremely boring and frustrating taxi ride (it took an hour more than it should have due to traffic) we finally arrived at the aiport. The check in and security was surprisingly very quick and before I knew it we were in starbucks for my first hot chocolate of the holiday. (you'll come to realise I'm addicted to it) After my parents making friends with someone who claimed to be a bollywood actor filming in the UK, it was time to go to the gate. Annoyingly, we had to get a bus to the plane but I suppose its all apart of the adventure ).(an extremely boring one at so far)
So far on the plane I've watched the new Cinderella and half an hour of Simon's Cat videos. I found Cinderella kinda boring as I know the story and have seen many different film adaptations. Simon's Cat however was very funny as usual, I mean who doesn't like watching a cat wrip a room to shreds while the owner sleeps!
Well I think I've rambled on enough about my journey so far so I'll leave you with a picture of my cat sleeping in my suitcase this morning (he obviously wanted to come with us!) and a few view pictures from ly flight!
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| Santa's just hanging out... |
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| This looks kinda tumblr..;) |
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| One big cracker! |
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| I look so cool don't I ;) |
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| I came across a wild wallaby! |
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| That's a baby shark! |
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| Cutest pug ever...Ducky! ;) |
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| Sydney opera house |