Darling Harbour RANDOM 2nd April

Well today was very random. Me and Claire went to Darling harbour, a really cool port in Sydney and were just walking along minding our own business when we heard, 'Mary!Claire!' We looked up and there was Laura & Jamie from collge. We stared at each other in disbelief and couldn't quite grasp what was going on. As If! W went for a drink together and talked about what we'd been up to including a rather impressive story that while Laura & Jamie were staying at their bosses house, Laura managed to crash the car into the side of his house. Well done love..haha.
As it was our last night in SYd, we wer hoping to take some photos of the city at dusk and go to the Ice Bar...where you get kitted out in a ski suit, given a free drink and given a tour of the bar made completely out of ice. Didn't get a chance to go in the end as Holly had spent the day with her love interest Ryan and was drunk on the beach somewhere in Bondi. We ended up having a quiet evening washing all our clothes....foam party.

1st April Kooga

Went to get some fish & chips with all the family today at Doyles which is famousley known as it has the same view as the dentists in Finding Nemo.Woop. We then went to the Gap which is a cliffy area where they used to place the cannons for sea attacks and on alighter note is also a well known suicide spot. At least you'd get a nice view on the way down. I then completely zonked out on the beach while Claire, Holly, Billy and the boys played on 'boogie' boards. These are body boards with a weird name..you don't boogie on them in anyway really..unless you are the King of Boogie boarding and then anything is possible.
Ross and Scott sat behind us for the journey home and thought it was hilarious to poke at us throughout the entire journey with plastic spoons.Bless them. The journey home was oh so very long.

1st April Kooga

Went to get some fish & chips with all the family today at Doyles which is famousley known as it has the same view as the dentists in Finding Nemo.Woop. We then went to the Gap which is a cliffy area where they used to place the cannons for sea attacks and on alighter note is also a well known suicide spot. At least you'd get a nice view on the way down. I then completely zonked out on the beach while Claire, Holly, Billy and the boys played on 'boogie' boards. These are body boards with a weird name..you don't boogie on them in anyway really..unless you are the King of Boogie boarding and then anything is possible.
Ross and Scott sat behind us for the journey home and thought it was hilarious to poke at us throughout the entire journey with plastic spoons.Bless them. The journey home was oh so very long.

V Festival 31st March

I Love V festival. What a great line up and a great day. We arrived with the sun shining and everybody in great moods. We got our drinking wristbands that had 'alcohol is overrated' written on them and had a look around the site. There were 3 stages; this stage, that stage and the other stage...yeah..thats not gonna get confusing after a few drinks. Loads of bars, stalls and party tents lined the perimeter of the field. We were all 'stoked'. The first band we went to see were called phoenix and were pretty close to the front. Had some very weird girls in front of us wearing very special outfits: high waisted shorts that went up to their armpits and backcombed hair. They seemed to be more bothered about how they looked and what dance moves they were doing than seeing the band. I found it very funny when a text message arrived on the big screen saying 'those shorts are so wrong. since when did music festivals become a fashion show?!'
After Phoenix we went to the oxygen tent. This is where you get a wire put up your nostrils and they pump pure oxygen with different scents through it. Me and Hol tried it out and instantly felt recharged and energised. We then saw Nouvelle Vague who were so strange but fantastic. The two lead singers were french girls who spent most of their set curled up in balls on stage, crawling around and pulling their hair over their eyes. The best acts by far were Gnarles Barkely and Groove Armada who played a remix of Sister Nancy 'Bam Bam'. On hearing this I automaticallt thought of Keely and Craigy and felt a bit homesick...not for long though as a very good looking ozzie called Tony decided to talk to me and give me his number..NICE ONE PLEASE.

30th March Bondi Beach

A day of lazing on the beach and doing nothing in particular ahead of us, me and Claire set off to Bondi to meet Holly. She was in the same queue as us for the beach bus so that was much easier that we anticipated. I was expecting her to be really hungover but she was suprisingly perky as to which we discovered later, was due to meeting a guy two nights previous. As she described him he was shaping up to be quite fit. Really attractive, tall dark and handsome and a complete sweetheart. He met Holly when she was out and started to chat her up. She bought him a drink and it was going great. Where is this guy's flaw?!Well here it is....he apparently went to chat to some guys at the bar. He returned to Holly who asked who they were to which he casually declared that it was his 'ex boyfriend'...woah there horsey.There it is. Holly asked if he was gay now and he said he wasn't sure and that he'd have to find out. Well done Holly, you don't half pick 'em.

29th Bondi Centre

We went to scope out the route to Centennial Park where V Festival was being held on Saturday. We had to cancel our original plan which was rollerblading in the park but it started pouring down so that idea went (wait for it) down...the..drain!!!BOOM BOOM!My god, I am actually hilarious. We didn't get to see the beach but we went into a mahoosive shopping centre and had a little look around and a bite to eat. Decided to go home after that so we could see the beach altogether the next day. Went for a run which was wicked. On the way back I was running downhill as the sun was setting over the bush of the Blue Mountains. It was such a sight..very beautiful.I'm so lucky to be here.

28th March Manly Beach

Today we were off to Manly (Grr), a small coastal town near Sydney Harbour. To be honest I was more drawn to the place by its name than anything else. I liked the fact that we were getting on a 'manly' ferry and that we had a smoothie from the 'Manly' bakery. I think there should be a twin beach called 'Womanly'...it would be ace and you know it.
We met Holly's friend Mabel from Huddersfield and spent the day chilling on the beach listening to music (including the theme tune to that crazy 90s TV show 'Round The Twist' - I know we are very very cool). Holly went to stay with Mabel for a couple of nights and me and Claire went to watch Ross & Scott (her cousins) play footie and soccer (so thats rugby & football to you and me). I don't really get why rugby is called football because it is not football at all. The ball is in your hands for the majority of the time so if anything it should be called handball or grippyball or chuckyball. Why soccer? i mean we invented it so it should be called what ever we called it in the first place. I've just realised I'm ranting about such a pointless subject..ah well...its true though!
Her cousins were very very good. Little Ross finished practice and I felt like a proud mum. He kicked the ball to one of his mates so he could go and get a drink and I just couldn't help myself. I let out a massive 'WOOHOO!!' and instantly felt ashamed at myself that I'd embarassed Ross, Claire & mostly myself. So we went home.