Barbie Roo!

Didn’t get the best of sleep but I was up and ready when Nat came back from here pilates, first stop was Bunnings (B&Q) to get my keys cut. We then popped past a Western Union joint to get some birthday money from my Dad (thanks!). Feeling the hunger we popped past Rose’s house to have food at the asian place just around the corner. Rose’s mate Greg was there and he looked like Crocodile Dundee. 🙂 I nom’d on some pad thai. There are lots of asian restaurants and massage places in Melbourne I noticed, and asian people.

After food Nat was keen to splurdge her money on a new wakeboard so we went past the shop to get one in time for tomorrows antics. That done (and Nat chuffed as) we headed home (via good ol’ Dan Murphy’s bottle shop for some Torpedo Extra IPA, lovely stuff) and cleaned out the garage a bit.

NOM NOM NOM

Roo on the barbie!

Armed with beers we walked 5 minutes down the road to Nat’s folks house for a barbie. Got to meet her mum Robin, ate lots of ‘roo (delicious!), talked about many things and left with a jigsaw puzzle. There is even some old home brew kit that they said I could have and they also pointed out Aldi will be selling mountain bikes dirt cheap on Wednesday so I’ll be looking to pick one up. Barbie today was great! 😀

Bank’s, Board’s, Bike’s & Barley

Today I got stuff done.

Setup an account at the bank Nat uses (keep it simple) which was easy to do, filled in the online form for my Tax File Number (again piece of piss), kicked off a transfer of moola, looked at wakeboard’s and scanned a bike shop for deals. I really want to get a bicycle soon so I can get out exercising but exploring the city with ease, places like Gumtree will be my cheapest option here I think (won’t be a full-sus Chris). Nat was checking out the wakeboard’s as we should be wakeboarding at the weekend which should be bloody ace fun! (I need to study on some Youtube videos I think)

We went past Nat’s folks house, lovely place so it is, where her dad was busy working on an old car in the garage (there is an old Triumph there too and his MG was parked in the local car park). We were invited to a barbie tomorrow which will be my first here in Australia, bloody excited so I am! I’ll get to meet her mum and hopefully cook some ‘roo. 😀

Afterwards we chilled at home and Nat’s sister Kath came by for a bit (good to meet her), I cooked some sweet tattie & pearl barley risotto for us. Great to be cooking again, love it! Had a few beers, exterminated a white tail spider, watched some South Park and then went to bed.