Fun Fun Fun!!

12/26/2011

So I wasn’t sure how this week was gonna play out? With Adam being home and Pip and me. But on Tuesday we had a party at playgroup at this jungle gym play center. Which Adam was supposed to drive us to, because its quite aways away. But he ended up having to go into work that morning for a meeting or whatev…sooo I had to walk! We left like an hour ahead of time just because I didn’t know where it was or how long exactly it would take. Good thing we did too because Imogen had to go pee like every 5 min so we had to keep stopping and going into random business’s to let her use the toilet. We finally go there and all the kids went wild. Jumping on everything and running around..it was nice cause they just did whatev and we all got to sit there and have a coffee and they had food for us too! J So we were there for a couple hours..just like normal playgroup time. Then we headed on our journey back home. We stopped at this random craft store and I got some dumb things for the girls. Balloons and my little pony plates. Then when we got home Adam wanted to take the girls bowling. I was totally fine with that. So they all went and I was left watching Trinity. Which is super easy since she just sleeps lol so I just sat there and watched t.v. That night we just hung out.

Wednesday seemed a bit hetic but idk why? Adam was in and out of the house all morning doing lawn stuff then the girls just wanted todo everything. But around lunch time he said I was free to go!! WOOOO HOOOO Holiday time!!! Before I left I got to skype with Bry!! J So then I packed my over nighter and headed out. I went up to the Towers first because I needed a new phone..cause mine was just dead! So I got a cute new phone which works awesome..way better then my old one but its just black not pink L I was going to Mosman to hang out with my Americans for a few days!! So by the time I got to the city and on the ferry and there it was around 6: 30. So they picked me up and we spent about half and hour hanging out and then we went to the Manly meeting! It was good, they have quite a few younger ones in their cong but I only met a few. After meeting we went home and just watched movies and were being dumb!

The next morning we all slept in and didn’t really have any motivation todo anything, and we didn’t have any plans really. So finally Tiffany ( the mom) wanted to go to the biggest antique mall. So what the heck might as well. So all of us girls went! It was a really cool place and it was huge. They had all the old clothes and hats and everything…..duh its an antique shop. But we all found really dorky hats in the hat room and then we had to find a dress to go it. It was fun. It was like dress up!!

Were sooo classy lol

Gena

Rachael

Emma

Caitlin

Me　

They had dresses that were sooo cool. Lots of formal ones.

Us girls in our formal gown in the Hat room!

 And other dorky things!

While we were there Tiffany thought it would be cool to have an official afternoon tea at the little café. So we all got tea and scones with jam and cream (our whipped cream)

Then after being there for like 3 hours all of us girls were totally over it. Tiffany wasn’t. So we just left and went to a park across the street.

Finally another hour later we went home. We had dinner and then we sat around and we started talking about all our friends!! That made me happy! Just silly things about everyone. J Then we went to get Slurpee’s

At 7-11 with our Slurpee's!!

I love Slurpee's!!

So then the next day, which is Friday. We didn’t really have much going on so we just roamed around the town of Mosmon. Looked into the little shops. Bought some things. Went out to lunch. By mid-afternoon I had to head back home. Because I had to pack and I was staying the night at Alyce’s. So when I got home I packed up all my stuff, I had a lot of junk…I always way over pack. She said we might be staying in a tent soo I brought warm clothes too and then some blankets. Pip walked by and laughed, because she always teases me about how much stuff I have. By this time it was around 8ish. Then after awhile they were heading to bed and Adam came and said bye and have a fun time, and gave me a bottle of champagne to bring up with me. Then Pip came and said , “Have fun, see ya next year!” It threw me back a sec. but then I thought about it and yep next time I would see them was next year. Crazy!! So then Alyce came and picked me up and then we grabbed something to eat and then went back to her house. We sat around and talked for awhile and then I helped her pack. But we were leaving pretty early in the morning so we didn’t stay up to late.

So Sat morning we left her house about 7ish and then we met up with Matt (Matt is originally from Forster but just moved in with the boys and him and Alyce have a total thing going on, yay me chaperon) anyway we met him at Maccas and had some brekky. Then hit the road. The whole time we were driving it was pretty much down pouring rain. So we were sad that it was gonna be all rainy the whole week. On the way there I found out that Alyce’s family had a house there and that we were staying there. I thought we were staying with Paris but I guess not. So we pulled in around 11:30ish and it was perfect weather and not a cloud int the sky. The house was teeny tiny! It was soo funny! But we just dropped our stuff off, got changed and went straight to the beach and met up with her family.

The Beach we went to!

I went straight in..the water was perfect and the waves were awesome!

Alyce and Me

Bry and Me

 That was probably the first problem…I wanted to go into the water right away so I did a fast sunblocking job. Then I didn’t think about it again. I forgot the Australian sun is soo different. We were only there a few hours but that’s all it took. I was a lobster! No so much on my front but my back….from my shoulders down to my ankles were RED!!!

After we left the beach we went into town and went to the store and looked for a snorkel for me…because all the store would be closed the tomorrow for Christmas. We didn’t find one but that’s ok..we got booze instead lol But as the night went on I was getting redder and redder. When we got home we had dinner and a bunch of us played cards. We played 500, its pretty fun!! We always play it…all the time!! Then it was time to sleep. By this time there was about 10 people in this tiny house!! So in one of the rooms there was a queen bed where Sarah and Daniel and their baby slept. Then in the same room there was a twin bed and then bunk beds. Alyce slept of the twin and Bry and me slept on the bunk beds. The next room was just a queen bed where Craig and Sandra (alyce’s parents) slept. Then in the front room they had to move the chairs into the kitchen and put down 3 mattresses for the reat of the people. So the house was pretty packed out I would say.

Sunday was Christmas sooo nothing was open. The beaches near us were kinda rough waves soo we went into town, to checkout the other beaches. They were way nicer but all of us were hungry so we all went to Maccas. After that headed to the beach. My back was still fried, so thank goodness Alyce had a little shade tent thingy. I put it up and was in there the whole time plus mass amounts of sunblock. We stayed there until 5 or 6ish and then we went home and pretty much did the same thing. Had dinner, played some cards and went to bed.

Monday was Boxing day, which is a public holiday down here, they have it in Canada too I think. But its just the day after Christmas and there is a bunch of sales on at the shopping centers. Nothing like black Friday. But still good sales and tons and tons of people. So We went into town went to some of the shops. Met up with Paris and her sister, they shopped a bit with us but they had work and stuff they needed todo. After shopping for quite awhile I ended up with a summer dress, sweat pants ( when I said I got sweat pants no one knew what I was talking about, they call them trekkies) a load of sunblock, and a couple other shirts! After that we were gonna go to the beach but when we looked at it the surf wasn’t very nice so we decided to go more in town and go to the lake and go snorkeling. So I went a got myself a snorkel and flippers and stuff..might as well. I will use them!! We did that for awhile, there wasn’t much to see though and I didn’t want to go that long cause I was worried my already sunburn back was gonna get more sun burnt! So we ended up going and getting coffee and an afternoon snack. Then did some shopping downtown. It started to rain a bit so it was good thing we stopped swimming. After awhile…or by the time the stores kicked us out we went home. Since it was raining there wasn’t much todo but play cards soo we did that. But tonight Alyce’s Nan (grandma) and her aunt were coming up to stay. So that was 2 more people that had to sleep somewhere in this little house!! But so far its been lots of fun and we still have over a week left of our holiday!!!

♥lynds