Friday 17 December 2010

Day 37 - Chino meets some Staggs! (Wednesday 15th December)

Finally, Chaggie started a day this week with something they had planned before hand and look forward to. Staggie had organised to meet his Uncle, Aunty, Cousin Richard and Richard's girlfriend, Sabrina that afternoon in Melbourne for a drink and a meal!

Chaggie rose at around 11.00 and started to think about packing for New Zealand. We didn't want to leave it untill after we had met up with Staggie's family incase we had had too much to drink. We managed to get all that sorted by 13.00. We were expecting a call from Staggie's Uncle at any time after that, so we decided to relax and watch TV untill we got that call.
He rang at around 14.00 to say they were ready to meet up when we were. We set off to South Yarra station with the intention of meeting them at around 15.00 at Flinders Street station. Chaggie got there no problem but with transport issues, Staggie's family couldn't meet us at that particular place due to the tram they caught taking them to the wrong place. We did manage to meet up with them at the city square (more like a little rectangle with a few cafe's on it) where we would have our first drink.

After that we set off and had a good look around Southbank, situated along the Yarra river. This was where we had our first alcoholic beverage. This first round cost Staggie's cousin, Richard, $40 roughly!! If you haven't realised already through our blogs, Australia is a flippin' expensive place to live!

We had a cracking evening. We had Italian for our meal, washed down with a nice amount of wine. Staggies Auntie Gilly and Sabrina caught a taxi after the meal back to their hotel leaving the 4 guys with enough time to get a few more rounds in. We hit a nearby sports pub.

We could have stayed out longer quite easily this evening but had to get some sleep in preparation for our early start and flight tomorrow morning. We finally hit the sack at 01.00 before our 05.00 wake up call for our trip to Auckland, NZ tomorrow!!

Chaggie x

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