Asian Furniture and Designer Clothes
Well we've been back to work this week. Not at the sweety factory but in another suburb near St. Kilda called Prahan. Kev was at an Asian antique furniture warehouse, lugging $2500 chest of drawers around, and Charlotte has been at a European designer clothing sale. Unlike the sweet factory, we weren't allowed to take samples home, sadly, so don't expect a huge Chinese wardrobe or a Prada handbag on our return.
The unfortunate downside to working this week was that Kev was forced to go to the pub after work with his new colleagues, and subsequently spent half the wages on beer. So we spent Friday evening with a local bloke who insisted on buying us lots of beer and gin and tonics. We had a good night and a shocking hangover for Saturday.
So we've spent the week in St. Kilda and generally kept it low key trying to save money. This was a good plan until we found another parking ticket on the car this morning. That's one for each state so far, let's see if we can get the whole collection!
We're not entirely sure of our next move but we will either pack the van up and get back up to the north, or stay and try and work to pay off the parking fine. Either way, we'll be in touch soon so we'll leave you with some of our photos from Halls Gap, and one of Melbourne just to prove we were here:
Charlotte feeds her new friends:
A shot of the Grampians from a lookout, with Halls Gap visible at the bottom. You can see how close the bush fires got to the town where the colour of the trees goes from green to brown:
Us with Jason and Jacqui, taken by Jason's mum:
Kev at the edge of the cliff getting some dramatic footage:
Roo and Joey, who both looked up at the exact moment we took the shot:
The caravan park where we were staying (we slept in the van):
Kev takes Jason's car off-road (with permission):
A little dance at the top of Mt. William:
It was a 2km walk to the top, so we were happy to make it:
...and the view was spectacular:
Our home city for the past month - Melbourne:
The unfortunate downside to working this week was that Kev was forced to go to the pub after work with his new colleagues, and subsequently spent half the wages on beer. So we spent Friday evening with a local bloke who insisted on buying us lots of beer and gin and tonics. We had a good night and a shocking hangover for Saturday.
So we've spent the week in St. Kilda and generally kept it low key trying to save money. This was a good plan until we found another parking ticket on the car this morning. That's one for each state so far, let's see if we can get the whole collection!
We're not entirely sure of our next move but we will either pack the van up and get back up to the north, or stay and try and work to pay off the parking fine. Either way, we'll be in touch soon so we'll leave you with some of our photos from Halls Gap, and one of Melbourne just to prove we were here:
Charlotte feeds her new friends:
A shot of the Grampians from a lookout, with Halls Gap visible at the bottom. You can see how close the bush fires got to the town where the colour of the trees goes from green to brown:
Us with Jason and Jacqui, taken by Jason's mum:
Kev at the edge of the cliff getting some dramatic footage:
Roo and Joey, who both looked up at the exact moment we took the shot:
The caravan park where we were staying (we slept in the van):
Kev takes Jason's car off-road (with permission):
A little dance at the top of Mt. William:
It was a 2km walk to the top, so we were happy to make it:
...and the view was spectacular:
Our home city for the past month - Melbourne:
posted by Kev & Charlotte at
2:48 AM
2 Comments:
Just read the last few entries and I reckon Kev looks and kicks more like this bloke.... http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/html/home.html
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Anonymous, at 9:07 AM
I took it as a compliment. It's a little known fact that Hawking plays Aussie Rules Football for Collingwood out here. He's their star player.
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