We met up with Kate and Sophie again to go out and see what Melbourne is like at night! My friend at the North Face told me about a few places to go so our first stop was "Workshop". It was pretty cool because we had to go through an old garage door type thing and up some stairs to get to this awesome bar that played music I decided to classify as "electro-groove". Something Katie and I normally wouldnt be into, but it looks like we are expanding our horizons. There was also what seemed like a patio but it was inside so clearly it wasnt, but there were a lot of palm trees,tables and benches. It was generally just a really laid back place.
We stayed there for a drink and then we went to a place Kate had found (that we NEVER would have found even with amazing directions) called "Sister Bellas". We never would have found it because it is up a dark alley past trash cans and to our luck, a pile of vomit Sophie so graciously pointed out. The bar is not marked in any way. We thought we were going to a place down a different alley because we could see a sign and a line outside, however, we turned down the alley before it...
The door was down and to the right, we went in, the only thing the bouncer said was "Just so you know,we close at eleven because of Good Friday"...Great thanks. The bar turned out to be a little more posh than one would think from the view on the outside. Except for the fact that Jenah asked for a Vodka Diet Coke and the barman said...um how about Pepsi, and opened a vending machine bottle of Pepsi up. Other than that, it was really nice. The music was also quite eclectic, from Radiohead to Bone Thugs, I enjoyed it. Well, at least half of it. We stayed there for a few drinks and then it turned out that Sophie was really hungry, thus we moved on.
Sister Bellas
The last place we went that night was called "Cookie".It was on the first floor of a tall building that housed a different bar on each floor. Cookie was a bit more posh than the other two. Everything also seemed to be really tall...the bar, the barmen, the stools, the mirrors (which were also really high, I couldnt even see into them let alone Jenah's attempts). The staff also had awesome uniforms. They had old fashioned plaid-ish shirts, huge old aprons and crazy hats that kind of made you feel like you were in a malt shop in the fifties. On our way back to the hostel we walked by a huge group of guys and one was explaining that he didnt need to have a group of abs if he just had one huge one. He said exactly the quote that titles this blog. Jenah laughed for about ten minutes. It was awesome. It was something you would NEVER hear the guys in Sydney talking about. Especially since they all have about 24 abs and like to show it. ALL the time. After that we were all pretty spent and we had to get up early again on Saturday so we went back to the hostel and passed out.
Cookie
The next morning we woke up at about 6:30am and rushed to the morning market to get food for the road. It was just like a farmers market at home except it seemed cheaper. It was really good so we stocked up and headed for the bus. We jumped on the tour bus and were off to the Great Ocean Road!
We drove for awhile and made a few stops so people could get motion sickness pills (I stocked up and swooped up the very front seat of the bus with Katie, the senior citizens did not seem to mind). It was a really windy (not like breeze blowing but curvy) road and it was beautiful but nothing more exciting than driving down 1 to San Diego. However, the trees were different and our guide was a never ending river of information. Part of the road was actually built by WWI veterans to give them a job when they got back from the war. At one point of the road it was so steep that the workers had to tie themselves to trees so they wouldnt slide down the mountain.
There were a few stops along the road such as the memorial sign that let you know you were now embarking on the G.O.R (since you couldnt tell by the other 9,000 tourist signs that let you know before hand). We also stopped at the road biggest tourist destination, for good reason, The Twelve Apostles:
We also saw the London Bridge, the Razor Back and Lock Ard Gorge. Outside Lock Ard, back in the day(whichever day it was, I forget) there had been a shipwreck and a man in the gorge saw a woman stranded with a piece of wood in the ocean so, he went to rescue her. He brought her to a cave in the gorge and he climbed out of the gorge (which took six hours) to go for help. He found a farm and brought help back to the woman. The man and the woman spent two weeks at the farm recovering before she went back to England to her brother. The woman never thanked her savior because he was of a lower class than she and she believed it was his duty to save her. That man received what today would be the equivalent of 2 million dollars. Crazy.
After seeing all of this we had a two hour drive home. We got back at about 9:00pm and went to the bowling alley to say Goodbye to our dearest Kate. We then went back to our hostel to rack out before another agnoizingly early flight. We took a cab to the airport and got on a plane to Sydney. When we got back to our apartment Steph, one of the interns who worked with Felix moved in with us. It looks as if she and Chris are going to try and stay in the apartment after we move out. Gooood luck!
That...was our trip to Melbourne. I didnt break anything!!!
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