beautiful night out

today was public holiday (cause ystd was ANZAC day, and so today we have the day off work). ANZAC stands for australian and new zealand armed corps and it is to commemorate all the soldiers that have gone to war..something like that.

so anw we went off to movie world today, wayne and nathan actually came into the house and had a piece of our cheese cake before we left, and when we got to movie world it was crazily packed, worse than the time me and zj went ourselves. this time we went on the batwing spaceshot, and surprisingly, it wasn't as bad as the one that i took in genting, perhaps it is much shorter. and i liked it and we even went on it twice.but of cos i screamed my lungs off. saw the wild west perf and the gotham city perf, both of which we haven't seen b4, went on the wild west ride, that was the first ride we went on, got absolutely wet, and one strap of my sandal broke off and that was really a bummer because i really liked that one and i have none to wear for the travelling period. we missed the superman though because the queues were absolutely too long and we didn't have enough time. we went on the bumper cars too,they call em dodgem cars here i think, and also the scooby doo ride which was fun cos i did em with my arms in the air haha. the lethal weapon was closed for refurbishment so that was sad too.

after tt we stopped home for a shower and got ready for dinner. wayne came over and then brought us to his dad and stepmum's house. when we got there..there were blue fairy lights hung all over the bushes outside, and when we were at the door way we were like hmm do we take off our shoes? and they were like no this is an australian house.apparently you wear your shoes throughout the house and never take them off. but it's a wonder because the house floor and tiles and all are still all absolutely clean and spotless i don't know how they do that. and they had a purebred burmese kitty called oliver who didn't like me :(

they decided to have dinner outside today, and they even had a fire going in this pretty furnace..with carbon bits and firewood. and the table was just set beautifully. with wine glasses, drinking glasses.. and like cutlery set beautifully where u use the cutlery from the outside in. they had candles as well on the table..and a beautiful vase of hibiscus flowers. we bought a glass of penfolds
cabernet sauvignon as a gift as well. when we went out, we saw that they had a pool which was beautiful too, and their backyard was a river where other people had their yachts there and all that! like so cool. i so aspire to live in a place like that next time, and have beautiful dinners like this on cool nights (which will probably never ever happen in singapore sigh)

and dinner was roast lamb that was served beautifully with gravy and mint jelly on a plate with roasted vegetables as well, like roast zucchini, pumpkin, onion and potato, and blanched long beans. it was so beautifully plated up it looked like something out of masterchef and i was like absolutely amazed. and it tasted really yummy too. dessert was a pavlova!! the first time i'd learnt of pavlova was thru masterchef, it's a classic australian dessert, with a meringue sweet hard crust on the outside, and a very soft marshmallowy centre on the inside, and garnished usually with fruits on the top. and i was like wow i watched amazing pavlovas made on tv and now i actually get to try a pavlova!! we had a slice of pavlova each with a scoop of vanilla ice cream by the side.. and it was gorgeous. and we were just sitting out there on the patio (i don't know if that's what they call it)..and chatting..it was really rather nice, and then donald and rhonda decided it was too cold and thought we'd move in. then we cleared the table, and after they whipped out a bag of marshmallows and skewers and we actually roasted marshmallows in the fire!!! i absolutely burnt my first one because i plunged it straight into the fire thinking i'd roast the same way as the day i was at moreton island. but apparently not. haha.

and while i was doing the marshmallow roasting...rhonda asked me..would u like a cup of hot chocolate? and i was like yeahhh!!! even though i was like really full from dinner and dessert and 3 glasses of wine AND marshmallows. we then retreated into the cosy room (with nice comfy dim lighting and all) and had hot chocolates while oliver decided to curl up and have nice sleep on zhujun's lap. haha i was sooo jealous i wanted oliver on my lap too but i think Ash must have like left an 'all other cats keep out' scent on me or sth all the cats in Australia dun really seem to like me:( and so we just chatted and chatted until it was like 10 mins to 11 when we decided to go back home...

at the start of the day.. i was thinking to myself that soon, this beautiful day will be over.. and indeed..where did all the time go? it just went by like that.. and the really wonderful long weekend is over. 4 more days left at work.

and i am gonna do speed blogging soon.. when i'm not so tired. i'm absolutely bushed right now. and because i gladwrapped (cling-wrapped) wayne's phone on friday..he's probably gonna get me back with my thumbdrive because he's got it with him and those photos are on it (he's been joking about using up a whole roll of gladwrap, or cement/welding/enclosing it in a block of ice. and i only cling wrapped his fone because he went and sealed tracey's keys up in a plastic pouch so she couldn't get it lol.

speed blogging for moreton and brisbane part 2, o'reillys, tamborine mountain, and a muse on the entire sem coming up soon. and tomorrow, dinner with darrell, shelle, nathan, taleisha and wayne. no time to do everything, every night's just totally packed out now.