Early February....

As our time grew to a close in Sorrento we realised what amazing friends we had made in the town. Especially our lovely work-mates in Stringers! We had a lovely leaving do-thrown for us by our bosses of Stringers (We'd quit the Koonya in Jan when we couldn't cope with the double shifts anymore!)

Our leaving meal in the Continental Hotel, Sorrento

We had soooo much to sort out with the car before we left. We had the arduous task of getting a road-worthy certificate....we needed 2 new tyres, a new windscreen, a new side-mirror and ball joints (we don't know what these are either!) and various other little jobs. Then we needed to get it transferred from Andrew's name into our names, and get a rego (which is the Aussie MOT and Tax and Insurance all in one!) Needless to say its been crazy trying to get this done but a few grand later we're all set and have shiny new Victoria plates to show for our toil! Carla looked completely blank when at the DVLA she was handed a screwdriver and had to remove our NSW plates...

so...Bex got on the case!

Before we left our gorgeous friends Jessy and Camille took us out for an amazing meal of tapas in Dromana and then for a spin up Arthur's seat, a winding road up to the highest point on the Mornington peninsula. Que a whole lot of leather!

Bex's turn to don the leather!

and then over to Carla! (Jessy's on the right!)

That's all for Sorrento...we sailed (well caught the ferry) away the next morning!!


B and C xxx

January in Sorrento!

No we've not forgotten to include our NYE exploits on here! They weren't that exciting if we're honest! We had two back-to-back 18-hour shifts to do so we weren't feeling particularly festive! Though Carla did get in trouble for doing a tequilla shot in work! At the stroke of midnight I believe we were pulling pints! They don't sing Auld Lang Syne here so we got some odd looks when we joined arms to dance after we were done with our pint-pulling!! :P Didn't get off til about 2.30am and we were back in at 8am!

Enough whining-Happy New Year from the both of us!!!

 We pretty much worked the entirety of January but did manage to steal a day away to watch the Australian Open Tennis Championship! We met Mrs Williams (Venus and Serena's mummy) and watched Venus, Andy Roddick and Justine Hennin all win their second round matches! It was a lovely sunny day and our seats in the Rod Laver were melting in the afternoon sun!!

Queuing for the tennis!

Here's a pic of Andy Roddick and Igor Kunitsyn!

As sad as this is that's probably all the info needed for January!


B & C xx

Christmas and the Boxing Day Test

Forget today's date...here is our much awaited blog post! We've been busy girls!!

Xmas Morning in our Santa Hats!!

Christmas was spent with the lovely Bailey Family in Melbourne. We had a nice day of food (not your average British Christmas of turkey and the trimmings! The Aussies have a more weather appropriate- baring in mind its summer- approach to Christmas with lots of salads, meats etc, etc) Very enjoyable none-the-less! :)

Christmas food!

We opened Christmas pressies from our parents that had made the journey with us (and were thin on wrapping paper at this point!!). We had some pressies from the Baileys which was lovely including a lovely Myer's gift card! :)

We watched films etc with everyone and had a few drinkies which made for a merry day!!

The real fun was to be had on Boxing Day!!!

We got up, made sarnies and headed down to the mighty MCG to watch the 4th Ashes Test (Cricket-Australia Vs England for all you non-sports fans!)

Us as the MCG before play! (taken by a man from Cardiff!!)

It was such a brilliant day! We haven't got our Aus Vs Eng Tee shirts on here and you can't see our Welsh flag so you'll just have to imagine how patriotic we were!! We went with Arthur and Jessy and their daughter Nicole and her boyf came along too!

We were sat in the 'dry area' so no booze in the stands but we managed a cheeky cider and some chips so were very happy indeed!!

As you all know, we thrashed the Aussies it was the lowest total Australia has made against England in 54 Tests between the two countries at the MCG! So we witnessed history in the making! :) Poor Nicole and Boyf Taz went home shortly after lunch! Didn't really enjoy their first ashes test as much as we did!! :P

That's all for now!


B and C x