Friday, April 4, 2008

Another Long Day

Once again I sit infront of my laptop expressing my thoughts and feelings about the day that is nearly over which I have 1 more hour to go. I got a few texts throughout the day today because my friends who have been trying to contacted me sent me a text message which was nice.

We woke up this morning around 11 am and so I had gone downstairs to see where everyone and what everyone else had been doing. They were all in the lounge room lounging around and I suppose waiting for us to wake up because I believe it was almost time for they're lunch. When I had gone down I was told that they were heading out for lunch somewhere in Carlton. We had gone to eat some pizza but on the way to the actual restaurant we had gone elsewhere to see whether or not we would want to try it instead of going to the actual destination.

We stopped at this rather hip kind of suburb called Frankston which I have to say in the years I had been going to school in Melbourne I had never been there before so it was a nice change. We had all rucked up to this restaurant which seemed to me like a vege kinda restaurant. They had a pretty nice layout and crowd of mix ages. The food there did not see to bad either and rather big servings however I don't think Jonathan felt like eating there cos they I presumed would have been craving for pasta and pizza which this restaurant clearly did not have. So we left that place and made our way to the place we had intended to go.

We rucked up at this restaurant which I presumed was built around ferrari's because that happened to be the theme of this particular restaurant. It had pictures of the cars and the Ferrari team and such it was rather entertaining. Even the waitress were all in red. It was rather nice to see them all dressed up and matching the decoration of the whole place. 

We had a good lunch I have to admit. 4 small pizza's followed by a garden salad. By the time we had gotten the food we were all pretty much very hungry I have to admit. We gobbled it down like hungry monsters because the aroma of the food and such that we had smelt from other people who were eating there made us even more hungry. 

After lunch we had gone to the New Melbourne Museum which once again I had not been there even when I had gone to school. It was definately interesting to go and have a look at because I have to admit there were a lot of things to see although we did not enter the museum proper we did get to see some of the exhibits and such. We came across a research center where they had laptops and particular exhibits such as minerals, fossils and what not so we spent quite a bit of time having a look at that. I found that rather interesting and educational because since i had not been in school for quite a while I have to say I have forgotten some of the things that I had learn whilst in school.

We walked around and came across the garden exhibit. They had taken a whole lot of space next to the museum and they had secured it off to the public. Unfortunately, the only way to be able to go in is by paying an entrance fee but we did not feel like going to spend a few hours looking for or at flowers and such so we walked by the park and took some candid shots of the buildings and such whilst we could. I had to say by that time the sun was shining and it was rather hot but beautiful. 

We walked towards the car and headed over to somewhere near Thornbury to pick up some typewriters for Uncle Danny from the "Tyoewriter man". It took us more than about 30 minutes to get there reason is because Alice was not exactly sure how to get there and we were instructed by Jonathan and the good ole melways. In the car I was getting rather sleepy and Lauren had passed out but the only reason why that was is because I do not think that she was feeling all that well unfortunately. It took us all in all about 1 hour to go there and back so I figured it had been a waste of time to do that silly errand but of course I did not tell her that out loud.

By the time we got home it had been around 4pm or slightly after and I personally was feeling tired and bored. Unfortunately I had a bad stomach upset and so I dashed to the bathroom as soon as I had entered the front door. I don't know what it was but I believe it must have been something I ate which I was not really happy about but I was good after I had made my deposit. After that I went to room to laze a bit and then John Rey came up and asked me for some help because he had decided earlier in the day that he would cook for my cousins and me.

So we were getting down to business. Johnrey was cutting up all the ingredients and all I basically had to do was to peel the potatoes and also the carrots which seemed like a pretty easy job for me actually however I do not know why it seemed so hard. So I left John Rey to fend for himself in the kitchen with all the ingredients and I had gone to chat to a friend on my laptop for a while which was quite fun. Besides I realize that I know John Rey does not like to be disturbed whilst he is cooking a meal. He likes it to be pretty much empty and clean yea.

His cooking was almost done and so I headed back up to the room to change for practice in the ballroom that they had in the house. We just did one round of each dance and by the end of it we were both pretty knackered. I know it may be surprising however we were showing Alice our routine. I found the floor rather slippery but we managed although I know John Rey was perspiring even though the room temperature and such was rather cold. 

After that Alice danced a little bit of Argentine Tango with John Rey since she had not danced it for the last 6 months so she gave it a shot. She put on her dancing shoes and dance a bit with him and thank goodness he taught her the basics to some of the tango  moves so I was happy. She was very satisfied with it all. 

After the dancing episode we sat down for dinner. It smelt so good. The adobo and the chicken. I think most of us walloped the chicken because it was really tasty and very delicious. I ate some rice and some of the chicken and the pork adobo which I absolutely loved.

After dinner I had a shower and then sorted out some personal issues and then went down to the living room where Lauren and Jonathan were and watched tv followed by putting videos onto my Ipod which was not that hard to do so I was happy with the results I got. So far I've got 2 videos on it so I am pretty happy about that. They are both dance videos. *Yay*

Well I got to go and head to bed because I've got a lesson at 1pm with Jim so hopefully it will go well. I am not to sure what to expect.

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