the last one

my last weekend living in melbourne was over almost as soon as it had arrived but it was lovely.

saturday was a rather self indulgent day as most of my time was spent at a day spa! i was fully pampered with a hair cut, colour and blow dry followed by an amazing 45 minute massage (in which i think i may have dozed off), facial and mini pedicure. despite leaving there extremely sleepy i then caught up with kathleen and shane for a pear cider in the glorious sunshine at world. after sharing the tales of our weekend adventures, kathleen and i headed to our next destination: ice cream. as we enjoyed our waffle cones overlooking the yarra we could hear cheers coming all the way from the afl grand final (part 2) at the mcg. the last time the pies won a grand final 20 something years ago my dad was at the game! saturday night saw me wandering down an alleyway (that was off another alleyway!) trying to find a well hidden bar that shona and some other friends were at. i finally found it after navigating past a great deal of garbage but only stayed for 2 glasses of wine. it did make me think of just how many bars melbourne has tucked away that i never got to visit.

sunday proved to have just as beautiful weather as on saturday. after some toast and coffee at home i headed out (in shorts and sunglasses!) to balaclava for some lunch with ariella. we went to an awesome place called las chicas and i had a breakfast burrito (even though it was lunch) that had bacon, scrambled egg, rocket and aioli topped with avocado and fresh tomato salsa.. yum!! over our food and fresh juices and in the sunshine of the courtyard we fully caught up on each others lives. i then explored the shops a little and despite my best efforts not to purchase anything, i did buy a dainty daisy necklace. i think i did well given the amount of gorgeous things i came across. that afternoon i wandered around the city and lay on the grass in front of the state library reading the paper. after the sun started disappearing behind buildings and clouds i decided i felt like going home to my apartment and hopping onto my air mattress and under my doona. so this is where i am now. just relaxing and unwinding, waiting for josh and lu to get home so we can have a nice dinner together. all in all a pretty perfect ending to 2 and half years of melbourne weekends.