Friday, December 12, 2008
Catch-up
Found this unfinished draft of notes to self to remind me of this we did aroudn Oct - Nov 2008.
D, T and I went to the Peninsula as I was doing my Advanced course. As I did my dives, T and D looked for accomodation and found a great place called White Hall. It's an original Victorian house that was refurbished to be a small hostel. We were pretty lucky to get accomodation cause it was Schoolies week. John joined us after his harrowing experience of being stranded at Frankston cause the bus broke down. While I was diving and such, Don, Thad and John explored Mornington Peninsula, initially wanting to go fishing, but decided it was too expensive to hire rods and buy bait. They decided to go cockle dancing instead. A method of finding and collecting molluscs by digging one's foot into the sand and twisting it around deeper and deeper till it finds the hard shell of a e.g. cockle. They worked hard but couldn't find anything. Don was obsessed about it for a period and even invested in a bloody cockle pump and bucket and we would go very frequenty to try to get cockles that way. We haven't caught anything till now, more than half a year later.
The next day, we had a scrumptious lunch of fish and prawns and bangers barbie at Rye pier, where we met a few schoolies kids who we donated food to. Deja vous. I remember going around Pasir Ris chalet asking people for food for fun when i was silly, carefree and young too. Thad played in the playground as we ate and decided to spin around and around till he felt "funny" and continued to feel "funny" when we got home an hour later. I unfortunately got a seeding ticket for driving at 102km / h in a 100 km / h road.
Nxt wk: Mornington Pen - Sorrento Natl Park Rock Pool, Peninsula Hot Spirngs
Seeing that we loved our time at White Hall (must have been the free breakkie) and Mornington so much, we decided to head down again the next week. D and T took me to the Sorrento National Park rock pool that they explored the last time around. It was a quiet enclave, hidden away and thus, very private. We climbed over rocks and explored all the sea creatures in the fantastatically clear, refreshing knee deep water.
We indulged at Peninsula Hot Springs and Thad had a blast immersing himself 12 times in the outdoor freezing water whilst I languidly sat in the warmest.
Thad got a certificate of success from Mrs Hamilton. He hasn't got one this year (grade 2). It's now called "You can Do It Student Achievement Award".
Some time last year, I decided to try Russian Food after my Russian colleague, Anna, recommended this restaurant. Grace, Seok Ming, D, T and I went to this place in Elsternwick. Can't remember what it's called but we tried to go there once before and couldn't find it cause the entrance is a small, unobtrusive black gate. Anyhow, a Russian Jews for Chirst type group was having a function there as well and there was lots of Russian singing and dancing (don't know if this is a regular thing or part of the function) and lots and lots of food. IT WAS A FEAST! Everything was great! Thad and I danced and we were deliriously happy.
D, T and I went to the Peninsula as I was doing my Advanced course. As I did my dives, T and D looked for accomodation and found a great place called White Hall. It's an original Victorian house that was refurbished to be a small hostel. We were pretty lucky to get accomodation cause it was Schoolies week. John joined us after his harrowing experience of being stranded at Frankston cause the bus broke down. While I was diving and such, Don, Thad and John explored Mornington Peninsula, initially wanting to go fishing, but decided it was too expensive to hire rods and buy bait. They decided to go cockle dancing instead. A method of finding and collecting molluscs by digging one's foot into the sand and twisting it around deeper and deeper till it finds the hard shell of a e.g. cockle. They worked hard but couldn't find anything. Don was obsessed about it for a period and even invested in a bloody cockle pump and bucket and we would go very frequenty to try to get cockles that way. We haven't caught anything till now, more than half a year later.
The next day, we had a scrumptious lunch of fish and prawns and bangers barbie at Rye pier, where we met a few schoolies kids who we donated food to. Deja vous. I remember going around Pasir Ris chalet asking people for food for fun when i was silly, carefree and young too. Thad played in the playground as we ate and decided to spin around and around till he felt "funny" and continued to feel "funny" when we got home an hour later. I unfortunately got a seeding ticket for driving at 102km / h in a 100 km / h road.
Nxt wk: Mornington Pen - Sorrento Natl Park Rock Pool, Peninsula Hot Spirngs
Seeing that we loved our time at White Hall (must have been the free breakkie) and Mornington so much, we decided to head down again the next week. D and T took me to the Sorrento National Park rock pool that they explored the last time around. It was a quiet enclave, hidden away and thus, very private. We climbed over rocks and explored all the sea creatures in the fantastatically clear, refreshing knee deep water.
We indulged at Peninsula Hot Springs and Thad had a blast immersing himself 12 times in the outdoor freezing water whilst I languidly sat in the warmest.
Thad got a certificate of success from Mrs Hamilton. He hasn't got one this year (grade 2). It's now called "You can Do It Student Achievement Award".
Some time last year, I decided to try Russian Food after my Russian colleague, Anna, recommended this restaurant. Grace, Seok Ming, D, T and I went to this place in Elsternwick. Can't remember what it's called but we tried to go there once before and couldn't find it cause the entrance is a small, unobtrusive black gate. Anyhow, a Russian Jews for Chirst type group was having a function there as well and there was lots of Russian singing and dancing (don't know if this is a regular thing or part of the function) and lots and lots of food. IT WAS A FEAST! Everything was great! Thad and I danced and we were deliriously happy.
