So me, Stac, and Bets went to Melbourne this weekend and it was loads of fun! Once again, I fell in love. This city is amazing!! I like it way more than Sydney...nothing against Sydney cause its amazing as well, but Melbourne is just way way way more chill! We got into the airport late Thursday night and my friend Mark, who actually studied abroad at UF picked us up...I didnt know him beforehand, we had just randomly started talking through facebook right before I came to Australia and he offered us a free place to stay! Most people would find this sketchy, but he seemed totally normal so I figured why not!?
Anyways, he and his friend Tom (totally adorable), picked us up round 11pm at the airport and drove us back to his house (he lives with his parents and older sister outside the city). His family was AMAZING! None of them knew me and yet they were so welcoming to me and my friends! The second morning we were there, his mum made us coffee and cookies and brought them to us in bed!!! Wtf...how nice is that!?! And his dad, who was hilar, was my beer pong partner Friday night and wasn't too shabby...everytime I made one hed do a golf clap and say good girl, it was adorable! And his sister was the sweetest person ever and even dropped us off at the station so we could catch our plane on our last day in Melbourne...pretty much I fell in love with Mark and his family right away...it was home sweet home for sure!
Basically, we just walked around the city for a couple days...did some shopping and just took it all in...we definitely could have done some more sightseeing, but i wouldnt trade what we did in for the world...turned out perfectly! Oh and Friday night we decided to do a touristy thing...we went to the Penguin Parade at Phillip Island...gayest shit ever...it took almost 2 hours to get there, it was cold as eff and rainy, and there were asians everywhere, and it cost 20 bucks and you couldnt see shit...basically, the smallest penguins come swimming out of the sea and onto the shore every night at the same time and they walk to their burroughs or whatever...I mean they were definitely cute and all, but it took all of like 5 minutes and then i was like kkkkkkk now what? My advice, dont do it...not worth the money, still a funny story in the end though.
Lets see, the best night of all...Saturday...we got to go to 2 footy games (AFL...its different then rugby league or union). The first one we didnt even plan on going to, but we were waiting to meet up with our buddies David, Alex, and Jason and while we were waiting this random dude was like HEY! you want some free tickets to the game!? so we were like uhhhh yeah! And we did that and I pretty much love AFL now...so intense! Then we went to the casino for a bit with the boys, but then we hit up the night AFL game at the other stadium...Mark works at the bar there sometimes so we got drink the entire time...for free! By the end of the night, there was a 500 dollar bar tab between the 4 of us...can you say ridiculous and yet awesome!? I can. After that, we met up with the boys again and Charlie and Pat as well to go out for the night...I pretty much dont remember anything from here on out...and there are RIDICULOUS videos to prove it...lets just say theres one where Stacy woke me up after I passed out and I talk about Don Henley, Tampons, Helen Keller, a little dude and our friends hooking up...hahahahhaahahahaha I'm embarrassed and disturbed as HELL by most of it, but at the same time I've never seen anything so funny in my entire life!
So yeah, theres a lot more I could probably talk about, but thats all I really feel like typing so just know that Melbourne was amazing (just as much as the one in countdown county, FL) and everyone should go there at some point...miss and love!
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