Happy Birthday Gen!

Today we are in Geelong, it's Gen's 21st birthday and we are having lunch together with some of her friends and family. She came over for dinner last night and I made a stir fry. She has been saying for ages that she misses having stir fries because she doesn't have them at home. So that's why we invited her over. Then Alistair drove us all down to Geelong together ready for the weekend. We were all just hanging out last night, watching TV and just lazing about. It was nice and relaxing. I started reading a couple of books as well from the bookshelf, I always seem to do that when I'm there, they have so many interesting books.

We bought Gen the DKNY Be Delicious EDT which came with a totebag as well, she loved it, so that was good. We gave it to her in the morning, she woke up before everyone in fact. Then Alistair and I went into town to pick up the KFC and then came back to help set up. It has been a good day and from the speeches as well, I've learnt some new things about Gen! We are all driving back in an hour or so, we are taking back her flatmate as well. It's been a good weekend, very tiring though, I can't wait to get home and sleep. But it's been good.

Mummy is here

My mum has been in Melbourne since the 8th. She is here until tomorrow, before she flies out to Sydney to spend Easter with my cousins. We have had a pretty good time - it is the first time that she has been over since I've moved. On the day she arrived, we went to the Victoria Markets and we had roast lamb for dinner that night. I took her to Ikea because that's where I take everyone new to Melbourne.

We have been to St Kilda, the Southbank Markets, had yum cha in Chinatown. Bridge Road, Chapel Street, Chadstone. It's been good. We even had Alistair's parents over for dinner and I made a curry. Today I took the day off work, because I converted my New Zealand drivers licence over to a Victorian one. I didn't have to do any tests or anything like that, I just had to show up, have my photo taken and pay the $15 or whatever it was. It was pretty pointless to get changed over as there was no problem with me using my New Zealand licence here, but it was something I did because I thought it would be cool. So there you go.

Plans for the long, four day weekend. Well, on Friday Alistair and I are going down to Geelong for dinner and we are spending the night there. But other than that, there isn't anything really set in stone. We need to think of something to buy his sister for her birthday, that's next weekend! We best be putting our thinking caps on.