For me, travelling is all about the food and the people. And the toilets, but we won't get into that (punny!).
Hubs and I have decided to do some long walks over the weekends (by long I mean anything between 5 and 10km BTW) and last Saturday we had a great day exploring the Melbourne Botanic Gardens. The weather was sensational, and after walking into town from home, we wandered around for a few hours, enjoying the sunshine (we both got sun burnt) and each other's company.
I know I know I know! I haven't blogged about much interesting lately, but we are having technical difficulties at home, uploading (downloading? crossloading???) our photos from the last 2 months (all 3500 of them! Don't worry, I'll be selective) so because I haven't been able to use them, I've been a bit lazy. I can't believe we've only been back in Melbourne for 8 days. It's like we never left. Last week went by very slowly, but we just had a really great weekend. The weather was really great so we simply had to get out amongst it.
Hubs starts back at uni in 1 week, and is busy with his PhD at the moment, so we really have gotten straight back into it. But we have enough time to watch an episode (or 2 or 3) of Boston Legal each night. Even though the second season isn't nearly as good as the first, I haven't given up on it yet, and it seems to be improving as the episodes go on.
Anyway, that's enough drivel. I PROMISE to resume my usual witty interesting posts in the next few days...
Last night I used a public phone to call Hubs from the shops and it was SO exciting. I'd left my mobile at home and I was doing some shopping and I didn't really NEED to call him but there was a public phone just sitting there, looking all lonely, so I thought I'd have some fun.
Best 50c I spent all day!
We just got back to Melbourne from Brisbane last night, which brings an end to our blissful 6 week holiday! And the nice thing is, I really wasn't dreading going back to work. It's good to be back into the swing of things, especially after the delay in getting home yesterday...
Our flight was due to leave at 1:20pm and with the hour time difference, we were due back at Avalon airport at 4:45pm Melbourne time. At 1:05pm, we were informed that the plane had been struck by lightning on the flight down from Mackay that morning, so they were just doing safety checks. As annoying as the delay was, I was okay with the safety checks being carried out. We didn't get away til after 3pm and were informed once we left that the temp in Melbs was 37 degrees!!!!!!! Two and a half hours later (and after I had finished reading one of the crappiest books I've ever read), we started our descent into Melbourne and were told that the temp had dropped to 20 degrees! Aaaaaah Melbourne. How I love your temperamental ways.
So we landed without fuss, jumped on the shuttle, then a cab, and we were home around 7:30pm, just in time to watch the Australian Open Men's Final last night.
The perfect end to an amazing holiday. I'll fill you in on the details in the days and weeks to come! Oh, and I just opened up my Google Reader after not checking it for 6 weeks and I have 337 new items to read! It's going to take a while...
It's good to be back!
