The weekend of Chocolate for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The weekend you can eat anything sweet and not feel guilty.. (you may just feel the crap after it from all the choccy you've squashed into your little bodies). I had a fun weekend, lots of relaxing, yet i did do a few things.
The weekend started with Thursday night i was at work, ordered myself some shoes (treat yo self).. got them as a three hour delivery! WHY NOT??.. I then went home and met one of the girls at mine. ma girlfriend and me started off with some yummy red wine at my house after work (i got home around 7:30 so was dyingg for some wine). We sat and caught up over the whole bottle of red.. oh i love red, when you're in the mood for wine.. nothing can beat it (especially on chilled winter nights). Anywho after we polished the bottle haha we moved onto the Erskineville Hotel (ERKO) which is literally 200m from my house.. yes, it is that close and dangerous woohoooo. We got ourselves a great stool'd table (right near the bar), i got us another bottle of wine, a rose this time and we sat and chatted more about life. She is off on Thursday to America to see the boyfrrriendddd at Standford who's actually coaching Rugby Union over there which is pretty awesome!. Another bottle down and Mads asks 'one more glasss?'.. how can i say no. We finished off the drinks and i headed home........ BUT FIRST A KEBAB (beef of course and a Gatorade). I got home and sat on the couch to finish my kebab.. starting to get that sick wine feeling, i couldn't finish the kebab.. everything was just making me sick and the wine got me feeling dizzy. I HATE THAT WITH WINE. any other drink you can be perfectly fine and then wine comes along ... one minute you're completely fine and the next minute ... have no idea whats going on. I took myself to the shower and then to bed (i was asleep within seconds).
The next morning.......... GOOD FRIDAY. I have a wine hangover (and i am really not surprised). I don't have a headache, i don't feel sick i am just so so so tired. My roommate and myself walk up to the Shenkin and grab a coffee... woohoo and i grab myself a chocolate croissant (i am going all out today i am!!). We then take our coffees and food to a bench in the sun and sit and enjoy the sunshine of the morning. Home time and nap time (.. a bit of cleaning time and sorting room out time). I then head to the beach with mum and dad. We head to Maroubra first, however we get there and the whole beach is closed. The currents are everywhere (i would definitely drown if i stepped in).. so we walked for a little, undecided on what to do. Mum and dad then ran into some friends.. (don't you hate it when you're tired and your parents run into their friends and they just talk and talk and talk and all you want to do is lay and jump in the ocean..). Anyway what felt like half an hour later i decided we should go to Clovelly (because lets be honest, Clovelly is STUNNING). Mum got a little bit nervous on if the waves are huge at Maroubra what will Clovelly be like???.. personally i LOVE IT when the waves are crashing everywhere it's great fun. We get there and Clovelly is beautiful as per usual, there is obviously a swell going on, but nothing mum and dad can't handle. We jump in and just float and get taken back and forth with the rolling in on waves (you know the feeling of swimming and you can't get anywhere?, well it was like that for a little bit), the water was beautiful and warm and just amazing like Clovelly always is. We stick around for a bit, i head home and just relax for the night. watch a movie and it is time for a yummy dinner. I haven't eaten much today so i GO NUTS ON DINNER. I am a little sickened about what i ordered and what i accomplished but eh .. girls gotta eat. (Paid thai, money bags, prawn crackers and a coke zero) The hangover dinner meal.. & i will tell you it was awesome. Yes i felt sick after, yes i couldn't move for at least an hour.. but wow that feeling of eating everything and everything laid out in front of me.. and no one home either.. so it was my food and me WOW. After the food coma left, i took myself to bed (i had work early Saturday morning) and guess what.. I COULDN'T SLEEP!! i was tired all day and when i went to sleep my body was like NOPE .. anyway i slept on and off until 6am that morning.
Saturday & Birthdays... The day started with work (which was actually nice to get up and start the day). I then made my way down to Cronulla for a bestfriends birthday late lunch. We went to a place called Next Door (i think). The food was amazing and tastey! I had the Salmon (i was so juicy and yummy and i also got some sweet potato fries on the side which were scrumptious as well). We hung and chatted for a bit and then.. one of the girls at the table and myself start giggling.. we see something in the corner of eyes. its a lady, with a pram.. WITH A DOG IN IT??? we continue to watch as she lays out the blanket for the dog at the table.. I do love dogs but yeah wow, in a pram to a restaurant?? Am i missing something?? We finish up and wonder the beach for a while, i then head home as i need to get ready for a little trip tomorrow down the coast. Home time, washing on and relax time (as you can tell i am a massive chiller.. i love love loveeee relaxing. Don't get me wrong i love adventuring as well and a huge adrenaline seeker but yes i am very content with a movie and relaxing on the couch/beach.
Sunday morningg .. ROADDD TRIPP!!!!, i am up at 6am and can't sleep anymore so i put my drying on and wait for everything to dry so i can pack it for the trip (yes one night trip.. but i may need active wear, i may need warm clothes or summery clothes, i need bikinis and a couple of different pairs of shoes for occasions eg, hiking or beach or pub.. you just never know). I head down to get my friend from the Cronulla area (shes got swags for us) and her clothes to. We then start the trip. She got a blueberry muffin to start with and we will stop in Berry for some more food and a coffee (Berry is STUNNING). We sing along and be silly .. our trips are hilarious. Last time we did a trip we did the whole Byron drive and back... on the way back we were on VERY GOOD TIMIMG and .. we get a FLAT!!! we ended up staying the night in Tea Gardens.... Ill post the video below and you can see that trip haha it was great fun. Anyway back to this trip. We stop in Berry, grab some yummy salad and a coffee, we also go into 'Global Contact'. It has all these spiritual things and nice smells and cute feel good books and crystals etc. Anyway i bought myself some nice incense and a book all about staying happy everyday. I did just the book by the cover it was nice a yellow and just happy so i got it to give to someone as a little gift. We return to the car.. next stop Lake Tabourie. We are crashing for the night with my friends dad and uncle, it's a cute little unit on the Lake. Before we get to Tabourite we stopped at a place to look at some horses. We arrived but the horses were quite a fair way away... so i started rattling my keys.. 30 SECONDS LATER THEY CAME BOUNDDINGGGGGGGG OVER!!! not one horse but 3 ahah, we don't even know where the other 2 came from (it was great). We stood around and laughed for a bit .. time to carry on... BUT FIRST FOOD (its lunch time now).. we stop at a fish and chip shop just 5 minutes from the unit.. & THESE FISH AND CHIPS ARE THE BEST EVER. I don't know about you but when i have hot chips i search for the crunchiest chips in the pack.. THIS WHOLE FISH PACKET WERE ALL CRIPSY.. THEY WERE ALL CRUNCHY!!! IT WAS AMAZINGGGGGGGGGGG!. onto the next food coma. We get to Tabourie, eat the food then take ourselves to the beach. Salsa wants to show me the 'Island' so we head straight over it, through the water, put the towels down and into the crystal ocean.. it was like a magic beach. I have never been but Tabourie is a beautiful place and it is also nice a quiet (i do like a small town). After the swim we go walking around the Island, there are so many people fishing and just watching the ocean and taking in that crisp salty breeze.. it is nice breathing that in when you live in the city.. this is when it starts to get interesting. Apparently there is a pathway up and over the island back to the other side where we started. We started heading around and up and i just keep following.. soon we are thick in the middle of the Island, there are branches everywhere.. and i honestly can't see a path ahah all i see is spiderwebs, i keep following.... next minute there is definitely no path and we find ourselves sliding down loose sand through ferns and webs and all we can do is laugh really ahaha... i don't know about this path or if it has completely grown over but we never followed a path, we were in a bush, making our own path haha. Anyway we get to the other side.. but one thing .. there is a bit of a drop to the beach. After going through itchy plants and spider webs i am at the stage where i just jump, i don;t care whats under i just want to be back on the lowest point of sand.. WE GET THERE AND WE ARE BACK!! laughing obviously and joking about spiders crawling on us we head back to the unit. The night then consisted of relaxing and catching up, making a random trip to woolies for snacks and sleeping on the couch. The trip was more about getting out the city and having a breather and that is 100% what we did..
.. yeah so no video (i will have to add another time.. it needs to be youtube first and i am still just learning). but here is us on the beachhh feeling FRESHH.
The next morning we woke up and went to breakfast in Milton. We went to a place called Pilgrams which is also in Cronulla. Anyway we waited for an HOUR for our food and about halvies for our coffee (it was amazing though) I LOVE BRUNCH. we finished up and headed to another place called the Farm.. it was so cute.. very picturesque.. time to head back to Tabourie and soak in the last of the sun. We lay on the beach for a while (it was a little fresher today) but still beautiful. It's time now to pack our things and head home. We stop past one of salsaas family friends places that they had just purchased and WOW BEAUTIFUL!!! its now 4:30.. and it is really time to head home. We stop at a pie shop 'Haydens Pies' .. i just get a traditional YUMM unfortunately there are no vegan pies.. so its just me, tomato sauce and an amazing pie wow. Next stop woolies and then its time to travel on. We go non stop all the way home, sunsets and all over the grassy hills ... so so stunning. CRAZY DRIVERS EVERYWHERE.. tail gaiters everywhere.. high beams everywhere (you know those cars that their lights are SOOOO BRIGHT and pretty much blind you?? yeah well them... the drive though it was so fast! so easy... i got back to Erskineville within 4 hours easily. AMAZING. I open the door and welcome myself backk to my two roomies (they're watching Coach Carter).. veryyyyyyyyy motivational! .. but it is 7 year switch time (i do love some trashy reality tv).. & BED TIME.. time to start the week fresh.
I LOVE getting out of the city when i can to refresh my body and mind and just shake things up a little. I think we can all get a bit overwhelmed with the hustle and bustle of the city and the coasts can really bring us back down to relaxation. One night away won't hurt, everyone should try every couple of weeks to get out and away.. treat yourselves to an air bnb or a hotel and enjoy some you time... you will thank yourself for it. (ps.. this blog you're probably thinking its about two of us.. its just coincidence that i have literally been with salsa every weekend haha for a long time.. if its not mucking around on the beach its sending silly insta stories and hilarious snaps to eachother.. one of our friends thinks we should start a tv show hahahaha).. any takers?? hahahaha
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