Getaway

Mark and I went down to Melbourne for a week for this year's Australian Open. We've gone for the last 2 years but this year we managed to get decent seats in Rod Laver Arena. We saw lots of tennis, did some shopping, ate lots of yummy food and went to Philip Island to play tourist.

We saw some great matches, the marathon men's quarter final with Kiefer and Grosjean, as well as two women's quarter finals – Hingis vs. Clijsters and Mauresmo vs. Schnyder. The later match being whopping, but against man-woman Mauresmo she didn’t stand a chance. This day was stinking hot, around 35 degrees celsius and despite our seats being awesome and 4 rows from the baseline on the side, we sat in the sun. The whole day. The WHOLE day. No amount of sunscreen could help prevent you getting burnt. I now have one severely burnt shoulder and a handprint on my other shoulder thanks to Mark who didn't rub in the sunscreen properly!

The next day was the women's semi finals, our seats were basically the same but on the opposite side of the court. This day was around 40 degrees Celsius and we had to skip the men's double match in the morning because our seats were still in the bloody sun and we couldn’t sit through that again. Luckily for the semi’s they closed the roof and so we sat in comfort as we watched the awesome Sharapova and Henin-Hardine semi. And yes, Sharapova is absolutely stunning but man, her screaming is so fricking loud, no wonder her opponents get the shits with her. The Clisjters vs. Mauresmo match was also fantastic, and it was shaping up to be a great final set til Clijsters fell over, it was a shame really, it looked like she could have beaten the man-woman.

The other days were spent shopping and eating. We visited the Alannah Hill outlet in Brunswick street and it was great – so much better than the one in Sydney with prices slashed severely from the RRP. I bought a skirt for $69 that was eyeing in the store but it was originally $389! It’s so much better than the Alannah outlet in Sydney, there are actually still small sizes left and all in perfect condition. I wish I had bought more.

We also went down to Philip Island for a day. We went on a cruise to the seal colony, they stunk like a toilet which hadn’t been cleaned for a long time but it was so cool seeing them, I haven’t seen a seal before in real life and being face to face with around 4000 was awesome!

It started to rain but we still went to the koala park and saw some cute koala’s, well one cute koala which was actually awake and climbing trees. It nearly impaled itself on a tree branch but it survived and then kept on climbing and eating. They’re just sooooooo cute. I wanted to steal one and take it home.

And then lastly we went to see the famous Penguin parade. We sat on the beach to watch the sunset and wait for the little penguins to surf in on the waves. They didn’t come til around 9:15pm but it was worth the wait seeing them hit the sand. They’re not the world’s brightest creatures as we watched them kept getting knocked over by the waves, but they eventually got their act together and in groups waddled up the beach and into the scrub to their burrows. As we walked along the boardwalk we could see them all walking around, cleaning themselves and chirping. It was amazing being so close to them and seeing them go about their normal activities. I’m surprised they’re so calm around humans.

It was a relaxing time away, and as we were heading home we ran into Jennifer Hawkins at the airport. To kill time we went into a few of the airport stores, and while we were in the lingerie store we saw her buying a pink g-string. She is so HOT, like hot to the max. Man, I’d so do her and I’m not even a lesbian.