A salvaged weekend.
Despite my last post (which will sting for a little while), today was a lot better all around I've pretty much joined myself at the hip to Hattie all weekend. At the last minute she said she'd come with my me to my mother's for New Years and I was stoked! Because while I know all my mother's friends, I'm really not all that happy holding polite conversation for hours with them, I don't really do all that well socially. Hattie came all the way down and we had a wonderful evening, a lot of people showed up for the party at my mother's beautiful house and we got to see some of the fireworks from her balcony, way off in the distance in the city, and also a little closer to home.
We danced and drank and I took Polaroids all night which I stuck to the wall with blu-tak and people could take the ones they liked. We stayed nice and late at my mother's the next day, hiding from the heat in the cool wood-and-stone-floor house and eventually trekked home together.
But even then I didn't stay home long, haha.... I made sure my cat was okay, checked her food and water, locked her in the house because of the upcoming heatwave and then I trotted down to stay the night at Hattie, Mags and Mitchel's place, where we started with a marathon of Dream High (although we only got through three episodes as they are over an hour long, darn Korean dramas). We had made plans to go to Williamstown beach and since we wished to avoid the crowds and the worst of the heat, we left the house to catch the bus at 7:30am and were at the beach a little after 8.
It was beautiful.
The water felt so good, there were no crowds, the weather was warm but not intensely hot as it had been the previous two days (although that would pick up a little later). Magdalene, Hattie and I swam, warmed up in the sun, swam again, then headed for a walk to the main town area where all the restaurants were. We had lunch but sadly the homemade gelati place was closed as it was a public holiday. When we walked back to the beach though, another gelati/cake place had opened up (we'd been too early for it to be open before) and we had some there.
Look at these gorgeous girls! I'm so lucky to have them :D
Afterwards we caught the bus back home and it wasn't even 2pm, though we'd been out long enough to have our fill of the heat. By this point it was 40'C and the heat felt like a solid thing, pressing down on you. suffocating and sticky and awful. I came home to a very unhappy cat, but at least the house was still cooler inside than outside.
I hope this heat ends soon, I really don't do well in it and it sure hasn't helped my mood. But I really needed today ^^ thanks, girls.
We danced and drank and I took Polaroids all night which I stuck to the wall with blu-tak and people could take the ones they liked. We stayed nice and late at my mother's the next day, hiding from the heat in the cool wood-and-stone-floor house and eventually trekked home together.
But even then I didn't stay home long, haha.... I made sure my cat was okay, checked her food and water, locked her in the house because of the upcoming heatwave and then I trotted down to stay the night at Hattie, Mags and Mitchel's place, where we started with a marathon of Dream High (although we only got through three episodes as they are over an hour long, darn Korean dramas). We had made plans to go to Williamstown beach and since we wished to avoid the crowds and the worst of the heat, we left the house to catch the bus at 7:30am and were at the beach a little after 8.
It was beautiful.
The water felt so good, there were no crowds, the weather was warm but not intensely hot as it had been the previous two days (although that would pick up a little later). Magdalene, Hattie and I swam, warmed up in the sun, swam again, then headed for a walk to the main town area where all the restaurants were. We had lunch but sadly the homemade gelati place was closed as it was a public holiday. When we walked back to the beach though, another gelati/cake place had opened up (we'd been too early for it to be open before) and we had some there.
Look at these gorgeous girls! I'm so lucky to have them :D
Afterwards we caught the bus back home and it wasn't even 2pm, though we'd been out long enough to have our fill of the heat. By this point it was 40'C and the heat felt like a solid thing, pressing down on you. suffocating and sticky and awful. I came home to a very unhappy cat, but at least the house was still cooler inside than outside.
I hope this heat ends soon, I really don't do well in it and it sure hasn't helped my mood. But I really needed today ^^ thanks, girls.