Hollie's 30th @ The Lounge

On the weekend we went to Hollie's 30th at the Lounge. We started off by visiting Tasha at one of my favourite little bars, Rue Bebelons for some red wine, beers and shots with her and the owners. Sweet little Tashi had just come from dinner for her mum's 50th and was already wasted! We moved onto the lounge where we all danced and had a great time.... Michiel and I went home early (2am) because we were both too drunk (him more than i!!!), grabbed the customary souvlaki and got a taxi home. It was funny cause we didn't tip him that much, but as we pulled up to our mansion he gave us the worst look!

Mansion Magic

So its been 3 days now in our Mansion..... its been fun! The whole place is not heated so we live between the lounge room, bedroom and kitchen cause they are the only rooms with heaters!
We had a little dinner party on Saturday night with Amy and Jeremy and Georgia and Romano- 3 course meal, fine china and crystal, open fire and a jenga battle! Its funny to see the looks on peoples faces when we open the door to them- they can't believe this place we are living in! Michiel whipped up a lovely entree and pasta and by the end we were all exhausted from overeating.

But......there has been some strange moments which has left me posing the inevitable question: "Is this place maybe....um...a little.... um.....haunted?" On Sunday Michiel and I noticed the light in the office on the 2nd floor (which is always locked, noone has ever entered it) at the front of the building was on. The second thing happened last night after we finished watching the Silence of the Lambs. At 1am we were in bed falling asleep when i heard the doorbell rang- i thought i was my imagination because i was sleepy, but i asked Michiel if he heard it too and he did!!! We decided not to act upon it and just held each other a little tighter! hahaha

We will post photos and more stories soon!

My very first blog

Hello world- i am here!!! Ik ben hieeeeeerrr!
Mick has done an excellent job of writing about whats been happening. Just now we are excited about our new mansion-home. I am also busy doing lots of hours at the backpackers, working on 2 conferences i am volunteering at and doing uni work.

Last week we had two fun nights out on the piss: Thurs night Mick and I helped with the 'Thursday Night Greenhouse Backpackers Pub Crawl' which went to Charles Dickens English Tavern, Soft Belly and Eleven-a. We were in charge of leading 60 backpackers 7 blocks from Soft Belly to Eleven-a and making sure noone got lost on the way- does this sound like a kindergarten excursion to you? haha. After Meagan finished helping a girl throw-up who had passed out on the toilet floor (the perks of the job!), Meags took Mick, 2 German girls, 2 Mexican dudes (who were after the same 1 German girl), 1 Indian girl and another German boy to a rock bar called Cherry, off Flinders Lane. Thurs night seems to be classic soul night there and the DJ is no younger than 70 years old but you should see how busy the place is with funky rockers getting down on the dancefloor. We had a good boogie.

Friday night after Meags finished work, Mick and Tashi (Meags' best friend) met her at Revolver, the Chapel St institution: open 24 hours over the weekend. Georgia (Meags' other best friend) and her Brazilian boy, Romano also came along and we also hooked up again with some dudes from the backpackers who Mick enjoyed playing pinball with! For those of you who don't know, Revolver is 1) a rock venue that features good local and touring bands and acts 2) a place that people go to when everything else is shut around town and they want to continue partying throughout the day. Its filled with comfy couches, pool tables, art installations, graffiti and posters all over the roof and walls and plays great music! We stayed till about 1:30 but Meags was falling asleep so we just stopped by a famous Souvlaki place to get a quick bite before bed :) then jumped into a taxi home. The taxi driver entertained us with stories of all the women passengers who try to give him a 'little more' than just the taxi fare ;)