Yesterday Simon took me around Warrandyte (the town he lives in) to some of the little shops in the downtown village-y area and to see some of the bigger and prettier houses... On a side note: the driving here is completely insane! I've gotten over the fact that the wheel is on the wrong side of the car, but driving on the wrong side of the road...especially when facing on coming traffic litterally makes me cringe. And after like 3 days of being here I still close my eyes whenever we make turns...its a bit unnerving lol your instincts like scream that not only are you turning the wrong way but youre headed into oncoming cars. oh! and the roundabouts are nuts! I still haven't really grasped who has the right away and such... but basically, Melbourne's landscape consists of unending hills. Not necessarily in the San Fransisco sense where there are several very large hills but an infinite number of smaller hills. Most houses from the front appear very small until you see the side or the back of the house where its great size is revealed. Everything exists on levels (Mrs. Motley would be in level viewing heaven) and it gives you the sense that houses and buildings in the distance are moving and growing. One of the pictures I can't wait to post that goes along with what I mean is a picture from the deck off of simon's kitchen and the garden below. From his kitchen's deck door which is really a glass wall on the back of his house you see an unending expanse of varying browns and duller greens of the trees and the mountains that stretch to the horizon. Those trees and mountains look almost like rolling waves of water caused by the hills underneath. It makes you almost forget that civilization can be found from a window at the front of the house. The garden that his dad has been working on for years lies on four seperate levels...and the farther down you go the more jungle-y it looks.
The village of Warrandyte reminds me of a cross between the main street of Lebanon and downtown Edwardsville (by Bead It or Beyond Timbuktu). Its filled with busy boutiques and cluttered antique shops, a small bakery, a bed and breakfast, a few pubs, and small used book stores. We walked up and down the street for awhile (pics posted soon) coffee in hand, before leaving to go to the park to hunt for kangaroos :)... unfortunately we didnt find any although we only spent like an hour looking (it was a chilly 50 degrees lol but windy) so the kangaroo and koala hunt continues....
We met up with Ryan for dinner before the movie and sat in one of the mall resturants (the huge Westfield mall)..and it looked like a ritzy sort of resturant on the top floor of a chic building. It was amazing! One wall was entirely glass over looking the city and the resturant was filled with crazy modern shaped low booths that were on platforms of various heights. The food was good, not too pricey, but the service was pretty bad. You litterally saw your server like 2 or 3 times throughout the meal. After dinner we met up with like 6 other people to see the movie and the theater itself was nothing like i'd experienced before... the seats were like lazy boy chairs and the aisle infront of you was like four feet away from you... so if you needed to get up to go to the bathroom or something you could get up and walk out without making everyone else in the row stand up or squish themselves out of your way....you could stretch your legs out without hitting the chair in front... and the armrest folds up and out of the way.
oh and the movie was good too! :) A little long, but filled with edge of your seat action scenes...
The village of Warrandyte reminds me of a cross between the main street of Lebanon and downtown Edwardsville (by Bead It or Beyond Timbuktu). Its filled with busy boutiques and cluttered antique shops, a small bakery, a bed and breakfast, a few pubs, and small used book stores. We walked up and down the street for awhile (pics posted soon) coffee in hand, before leaving to go to the park to hunt for kangaroos :)... unfortunately we didnt find any although we only spent like an hour looking (it was a chilly 50 degrees lol but windy) so the kangaroo and koala hunt continues....
We met up with Ryan for dinner before the movie and sat in one of the mall resturants (the huge Westfield mall)..and it looked like a ritzy sort of resturant on the top floor of a chic building. It was amazing! One wall was entirely glass over looking the city and the resturant was filled with crazy modern shaped low booths that were on platforms of various heights. The food was good, not too pricey, but the service was pretty bad. You litterally saw your server like 2 or 3 times throughout the meal. After dinner we met up with like 6 other people to see the movie and the theater itself was nothing like i'd experienced before... the seats were like lazy boy chairs and the aisle infront of you was like four feet away from you... so if you needed to get up to go to the bathroom or something you could get up and walk out without making everyone else in the row stand up or squish themselves out of your way....you could stretch your legs out without hitting the chair in front... and the armrest folds up and out of the way.
oh and the movie was good too! :) A little long, but filled with edge of your seat action scenes...
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