Getting Settled.

I woke up yesterday at 7:30 am. Just after Sadie left for work. I wasn't really sure what to spend the day doing so I asked Sadie's sister, Sylvie for tips. She was amazingly helpful. She printed off two maps of Bris and highlighted the bank, and some roads I would want to walk down. My plan was to go to the bank, open an account, go for breakfast, then look in shops and get a big acquainted. I walked to the bank and found it was closed (duh, it was Sunday) so I figured I would go on with plan 2 and 3. Well, I didn't have a single Australian dollar.. so I just ended up walking around for a long time. Sadie and I 'reckon' it was about 10k. I'll attach a link to the map so you can check it out. I walked from our house on Dudley (which will be at the very bottom just to the left of the middle of the map all the way up Boundary to the yellow fork in the road where I kept right. I walked across the bridge and around town a bit, then back across the bridge before turning left onto Grey St... back up Grey (I realize now how very far that was out of my way) and all the way home. I then happened upon my lover-boy Chris on Skype (thrilled!) and then Aunt Vic (also lovely) then had a two hour nap. I met Sadie at her work at 4 and we walked home. And since google maps talks in miles, I guess you can add another 3 miles on top of my other walk.

We went out that night with friends of Sadie's to the most ridiculous bar I've ever seen in my life time. It called "Cloud Land". We thought it was strange that when Sadie went to show the door man her ID, he said no no, and opened the door. We now think that was because the place was EMPTY and he was worried he would be laid off if they didn't sell a drink. It wasn't actually empty, three of Sadie's friends were waiting for us on the 2nd of three floors. The music was remixed (by the live dj) super lame late 80's or early 90's girl pop. Like the songs from FernGully... but remixed. The room was open to all three levels with a two story window waterfall. Plants hung from the ceiling and many light coverings at a distance appeared to be covered in some type of silver basket... upon closer inspection it was actually black and white whicker. Weird. The bar on the 2nd floor was made of glass balls like in Labyrinth. There were also hideous burgundy Flordia-Grandmother style pillows atop black and white vinyl couches with lights in them. Sooo odd. I've attached a link to the venue - it looks kind of cool in the photos but I promise it wasn't. We went to another bar after that and while we were all chatting outside I spotted a little gecko on the wall and yelled "aw COOL". I was laughed at.
I got tired at 11:30 (5:30 Victoria time) and took a taxi home.

Today has been fantastic. Sadie and I were up again around 7:30 but we puttered around the house unti about 10:30 in which time I was able to fold all my clothes and put them away and Sadie used my laptop to video skype with her boyfriend Caleb (one of my dearest friends for those of you who don't know) for the first time in 3.5 months. We then walked to the pharmacy where I bought a massive bottle of 30 SPF sunscreen which protects against UVA, UVB AND UVC rays. I didn't even know about the third type. I said to the woman working 'I don't even think we have those in Canada.' I'm not sure if she was amused or not. I'm chuckling about it again now.

We walked to Coles grocery story and got tasty lunch stuff and found a beautiful little shaded spot by the river for our pic-nic. I think we stayed there for maybe two hours with non-stop conversation. We went to Coles on the way home too for ice cream bars (10 for $4 - choc mint, vanilla, and malt choc) mmm.

We'll take it easy for the rest of the day and make a nice light dinner. Earlier while walking home I was thinking about what I wanted for dinner and came up with "ice cubes" haha! Don't worry. I've had some water and cooled down since then.

That's all for now.


Link to map:       http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=-27.479263,153.018351&spn=0.043404,0.071154&t=h&z=14&msid=103990994785642517793.0004959e4a68a6f367b39

Link to bar site:  http://www.cloudland.tv/#/cloudland/the-venue/