A Wishful Thinker……

Haven’t been blogging much lately because hadn’t had the time. Its been one thing after another. Family, friends work. I finally got a day off from work today. Last week I managed to get a few days off to go down to Busselton for a little bit of R&R with my best friends. It was soooo what was needed.

We left on Wednesday morning, with our first stop being the grocery store to get our supplies. After spending an hour running round the store with our trolley getting stuff, we were on our way! The trip down was fun. We had girly chats and caught up about stuff in our lives, and stuff for Tc’s wedding. Our first stop was in Mandurah for lunch. We had lunch at the Cicerello’s there… Mmmm… fish and chips… We stayed at the Broadwater Resort in Busselton. It was really good. The rooms were like mini apartments, so we had our own kitchen. After we got there, we went it was raining, so we went to the indoor pool area, but there were people, so we hogged the spa. It was soooo nice. I fell asleep in the spa, and the only time I woke up was to switch the spa back on as it had a timer on it. We went back to our room after we were well and truely wrinkly to cook our dinner. While we were cooking, that was when we realised that we had Nickelodeon and Showtime on our TV! So we ate dinner and watched Spongebob Squarepants, then after we had our shower and cleaned up, we sat down to munch away on popcorn and chips, and also…… CHAMPAGNE and Strawberries and Cherries!!!!! We were all so tired from the day, we manged to go to bed earlier than what we normally do on our holidays.

We managed to wake up earlier too. We got up and the girls went off to the local convenience store to get aluminum foil and a few other things we didn’t realise that they wouldn’t supply, while I stayed back to cut up the mushrooms and tomatoes we were having for our breakfast. Once they got back, Tc went to cook the chicken sausages and tomatoes we got on the BBQ as the stove was too small for two people to cook. Zg set the tables and ran in and out of the room and the BBQ bringing back and forth the supplies as we needed them. I cooked the hashbrowns in the awesome microwave/oven/griller thing we had in the rooms, as well as make the scrambled eggs and mushrooms. When we served up, it was when we realised how much food we had. >< At first it was fine, as we were all starving, but then by the time I was halfway through, I was full. And I was begging to let me stop eating. Tc told us off because apparently we shouldn’t waste food. All good for her and all she finished her plate! But Zg and I were struggling to finish ours. Eventually I gave up with half a sausage and egg left to go. >< I was so full I felt like I couldn’t breathe. >< After we let me and Zg relax a bit and we could breathe and move again, we went to the Margaret River Dairy Company. =D We tasted the cheese (yes we ate more), bought our cheeses, and then went on a drive in the area. We accidentally went down a dirt track, and Tc was worried about the pebbles puncturing a hole in the car (after the last road trip, I am very aware that this is highly possible) so we drove about 20km/ph we held up 3 4WDs, and eventually they gave up and overtook us. Hehehe! It was a good drive though, we stopped every now and again to take photos of cows and make fun of them. I don’t know what it is about cows, but they so funny. ^_^ Tc’s first remark when we saw the cows was “Oooo look! Its like the one on our milk carton!” =D LOL! I had to point out to her the cow on the milk carton was a dairy cow, like this cow, so they would look the same. LOL. WE then went to the Margaret River Chocolate Factory. =D I got bored of waiting for Tc and Zg to pick out gifts, so I stood next to the testing bowls munching away. Then I went to the beauty products side and tried out the products. I ended up getting the lip balm for myself and two chocolate bars one for my bro and the other for MB. We then went on another drive, before deciding to visit a winery. We ended up going to Vasse Felix as it was one of the bigger ones in the area. We did the wine tasting, which made me realise…. I really don’t like red wines. Ended up with two bottles of dessert wines anyways. Because it tastes sooooo much better than regular wine. ;P We got back to our room about 6, and went went for a walk to the local food court where Zg’s brother has a stall. He made us lemon pepper chicken and tom yum noodles. Sooo good! We also had bought some pies in Dunsborough and potato gems. Again we over ate and it hurted real bad. We spent the rest of the night after dinner sitting in the spa in our room with face masks sipping more champagne and eating more strawberries. Then we had a tub of ice cream too. I noticed that a holiday with my girls is never complete without ice cream. Even when we were in Seoul, in the middle of winter we had ice cream. =)

The next morning, we were suppose to check out at 10am. At 10am, Spongebob Squarepants was on TV!!! We had to drag ourselves away from the TV. >< After checking out, we went to visit Zg’s family nearby. Her nephew is an absolute cutie!!! Loves the camera too. He decided he likes me, so we played with him for a bit. =D When we left, it was also when his parents left to go to work. He started crying because he didn’t want to be left alone with his grandma and wanted to go with us. Poor thing. We headed back to Perth after that with a stopover in Manduarah again as we were still full when we were about  to reach Bunbury. WE had lunch at the Irish pub there. It was quite nice. I had a steak sandwich which came with wedges, Tray had salad and chips and Zg had a t-bone steak. Zg and I needed our red meat, and Tc doesn’t eat red meat.

We made it into Perth about 3/4. Just in time for me to chill for a bit, and then get ready to go out again for MB’s friend’s birthday dinner.

I love the holidays with these girls. We seem to find things to amuse ourselves with even when we driving around aimlessly in the middle of the country. Hehehe! It was just what I needed to relax. =)