So long mutt face…

Visited a few pubs this week after work with some workmates, $12/13 steaks went down a treat. Also had my homebrew club meetup at the Great Northern (ace pub) and I walked away with some free hops and a loaf of bread.

Out again on Friday, Scott (our team lead) is back off to the good ol’ U S of A so we had to have a few drinks before his departure. Brent not long arrived from Texas to replace him and we get on great as he is a homebrew too (with a beard).

Speaking of homebrewing my beer seems to be deed (infected, gah!) so I’m going to try another one hopefully today if I can get to a homebrew store for some grains. I helped Nat yesterday (along with her next door neighbours kids, they love her) clear out the shed at her sisters house so she can use it for a studio. Seen my first huntsman here, the last thing he saw was a brick unfortunately.

The International Comedy Festival is on in Melbourne now and I shunned it a little (there is festivals here all the time) but apparently its big like Edinburgh Fringe, the entire month with loads of performers etc. Will need to check it out.

In other sad news I’ve been told that Maisie (one of our family greyhounds) was put down last week due to an on going illness, I’ll miss that mutt. 😦

Maisie

Time fly’s in China

I woke up at 4AM this morning and couldn’t get back to sleep for another hour, that was horrible. When I did get up, at the back of 9AM, everyone seemed to be gone… Eventually Goa A Yi turned up and Benjamin not long after, by himself, said he was at the zoo. We had lunch which included bing (yas!) and he set off again but this time to watch a film, I took this opportunity to wash clothes and pack.

Wow packing feels weird. Has it been 6 months all ready?! I’m not even going home! This has been my home whilst in China and I’m excited for new adventures but a wee bit sad to see it go.

When Benjamin came back from the cinema we built the other Lego kit he’d got from his Dad, a hovercraft. His Dad and Mum arrived home just before tea and handed over a brand new iPhone 5 to Benjamin. A 7 year old has a better phone than me, jebus. To be fair he is off to Taiwan tomorrow and this means they can always be in touch, I got his number as well so we can WeChat. 🙂 Talk over food was fairly standard, they are quite preoccupied with travel plans for tomorrow (they are off to Japan on a business trip), I will be joining them to the airport. My flight isn’t technically until Monday (2AM) so I’ll have a long wait at the airport, I would stay at the house but no-one will be there so I can’t.

After food it wasn’t long until Benjamin needed a shower and I finalised my packing. He’s been OK today, definitely acting sad but overall fine, kids get over stuff quite quickly really. Randy and Suzy were out and obviously wanted me to join them for some last drinks but with Benjamin leaving so early in the morning and me feeling knackered I couldn’t go out. Glad I got to see them yesterday though, that was good. 🙂

So an FYI my blog will have some delayed updates whilst I’m travelling but I’ll make sure and update it when I arrive in Oz. Tomorrow will be my ‘Goodbye China’ post.