A not-so-brilliant idea

This week I was so school orientated. This is boring stuff but needs to be documented for the sake of all you people who think I do nothing but lay on the beach (I haven't been in a week!!) I ended up on campus every day this week. Yep my Tues-Thurs week turned into a Monday-Friday week, thanks to leadership seminars, a quiz, and a group project. Proof.that.I.do.work:)

Anyways so you can imagine that by Friday afternoon, I was like, "no.more.school." Here comes the not-so-brilliant idea part. I was on campus with my laptop, but rather than bring it home like a normal person I decided I would just get on a random bus headed in the direction of Macquarie Park. In my head I was thinking, "Oh, pretty park with trees, playgrounds, etc". Apparently I should have done a little more research as the bus dropped me off in the middle of an corporate park. So.not.the.same. Then I did the smart thing and just started walking. Without consulting a map. I don't know why I never learn but sometimes I just get the "feeling" that I'm headed in the right direction. Those "feelings" are ALWAYS wrong. But I went anyways. After a while I decided to consult my map. It did appear that there was in fact a park that appeared not too far, however I was headed in the wrong direction. The entire time looking completely out of place on main roads through a business area. Except what looked like not too far on the map and how far it actually was, also different. A mile later, I still had found no park, but I did find a train station. So I gave up and went shopping. Always a good idea. I ended up in Chatswood. And there are THREE separate shopping malls along the main strip...of more shops. Too much, even for an experienced shopper like myself.....

Last pair, on sale, in my size, love at first sight. It was fate.

So on the original "bad idea bus ride" I had the bus to myself....it basically was like a giant, not so classy limo.

And now off to the beach:) ALWAYS a brilliant idea.

Welcome to my world.

So I have this habit of taking random pictures on my  phone. They are usually moments when 1) I don't have my camera. 2) it would be super creepy to bust out my camera and take stalker pics of people. And if I were back home I would probably just send them off to those privileged enough to be on my "send random picture texts to" list....it's pretty VIP and there is a waiting list. But since I'm in Australia I decided to shake things up a bit and share these beauties with the world. Plus they are just piling up on my iPhone since I can't actually text them to anyone from there, and these are too great not to share with the world:)

So these ones are super old. Like NZ old. But check out the gear going on here. Seriously all these ladies did was stand on a boat deck. But they were dressed like they were climbing Everest.

Don't they look legit. haha. 

Check his bicycle man-bag. I want one. The bag. Not the man with the bag.

They had style. Seriously so cute....I wanted to be follow them to where they shopped.

It is a sad day when someone puts a GIANT J.Lo poster out on the trash pile. Somewhere tears were being shed....bahahaha.

This is a for sale sign from a house down the street. It sold!!!
Although I'm not sure how as people only had  a 45 minutes to look at it....

Sorry if feet weird you out. But seriously why is my right big toe insanely tan?

ooo...these are good! ^this one view with massive food baby.

^This one. Same view sucking in my baby. Yes, my food babies are legit.

Awesome mug from the sista. 

Now you for sure want on the list that gets these texts when I get home right?? kidding. If you feel like you just wasted 5 minutes of your life by reading my blog today....you would be right:)

Yum.Cha.

Sunday I was introduced to the fabulousness that is Yum Cha. For those of you who are in the dark as I was, "Yum cha (simplified Chinese: 饮茶; traditional Chinese: 飲茶), also known asBan ming (品茗), is a Chinese style morning or afternoon tea, which involves drinking Chinese tea and eating dim sum dishes. Yum cha in Cantoneseliterally means "drink tea", while ban ming is a more poetic "tasting of tea".

In the US and UK, the phrase dim sum is often used in place of yum cha; in Cantonese, dim sum (點心) refers to the wide range of small dishes, whereasyum cha, or "drinking tea", refers to the entire meal." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yum_cha as always I can be counted on for reliable, well-thought out research.ha.)

You're welcome. But anyways, lesson aside. It was such a fun and delicious experience. And of course being the fail blogger that I am I forgot to take any pictures. But here is one to help your imagination. 

Ps. Someone please find/recommend(and then apologize for hiding it from me for so long) a yummy place in AZ, kthanks. 

too much fabulous for one blog post

Seriously if I would have contained my Saturday into one post you would have been like, "whoa, fabulousness.overload." I saved you from that. You're welcome.

So Saturday, part 2. After a lovely day at the beach/beaches. We did a miraculous transformation in the beach bathroom. Let me tell you getting sand off without a proper shower takes skill. And I was only semi-successful, as I was still digging sand out of my ear on the bus ride back to the city. But anyways. we got ourselves all did up...well Louise did. I only got to a passable level:) Then it was off to meet Yasmin at the 360 restaurant at the top of the Sydney tower. Yep, Sydney has one of those classic big city towers with a restaurant/bar that spins at the top. Rather than do the total tourist thing where you just go look from the top, we did the totally classy thing where you go have yummy drinks and swanky desserts at the top! Except the hostess hated us and gave us the dirtiest looks ever so we were slightly worried we wouldn't get in....luckily we were so hot she couldn't say no;) So we enjoyed our deliciousness, while taking in gorgeous views of the city, watching the sunset, and judging everyone else's attire trying to figure out why the hostess hated us so......

Oh.yes. Mini desert sampler of deliciousness. Good thing we shared or I definitely would have eaten everything.no.problem.

Lighting fail...but unfortunately I cannot control the sun to give you a better picture.

Don't mind the awkward reflection....look beyond it to the awesome view of the city!!!

Check out the light...I thought it was awesome.

Sydney's sprawl.

More of Sydney. That's the St. Mary's Cathedral in the frontish. Remember how we took tourist photos in front of it?

We did a little damage to the dessert plate....

Wow, can you say skin cancer Meghan much?

We are soooo swanky.

I might have been too lazy to get out of my chair. So ignore the stuff blocking the gorgeous view.

And that concludes one of the most fantasmic Saturdays ever.

Weekend Meghan

This week I was chatting with one of my besties and he was like, "so what is a typical day in your Australia life". And it caused me to think about my Australia life and I decided it is mostly divided into school life and weekend life. Let me tell you if I only blogged about school life you would have stopped reading this a looooooong time ago. But the weekends make life pretty fantastic:)

Today was round two of gorgeous weather. So we headed to Coogee beach. Fabulous. Could have stayed there forever, but we were energetic and started up the walk from Coogee to Bondi. Absolutely stunning. Seriously we were the super annoying tourist who stopped every two feet to take pictures but the coast is just a gorgeous place. Then when we got half-ish way, maybe? We decided Bronte was too gorgeous of a beach to pass up. And of course Bondi was going to be crowded and we had to climb like a gazillion more stairs to get there....so naturally we busted out our towels, more sunscreen and parked ourselves on the sand once again.

Here are some pics. You might get tired of blue skies and sand, but I don't. So deal with it.

The tent in the middle is lifesavers. There were so many out that I'm pretty sure you couldn't have drowned even if you wanted to.

Coogee Beach

On the walkway with Coogee behind us.

Coogee.

Something Baths they were called....not important. they were pretty, that's all that matters:)

We couldn't decide if they happened naturally or were man-made. The rocks to the right look suspiciously square...

These chunks of cliff that had fallen off made us wary of getting too near the edge.

Some bay along the coast. Gorgeous water color.

The saddest looking boat ramps ever.

The shortest, narrowest beach I've ever seen.

Now those are some serious windows on my future house.

This is still the narrow one from above....Louise aptly named it "pavement beach".

Blue on blue...not a cloud in the sky, except for the ones that said, "she said yes".  We assume that we missed the ones that said, "will you marry me?" Because why would you feel the need to share it with the world if you simply asked a girl if she liked cheese and she said yes?

Ya, I wouldn't even get close enough to the edge to get a good pic of the sign that said beware of the edge. 

Bronte is the next beach up the coast, and then bondi is the beach in the way distance.

I lied. I actually did get pretty close to the edge for this one.

I would so get into football if it always came with views like this.

Not a bad spot to rest in peace. eh?

Whoa, I seriously did not plan to end with a shot of a graveyard. Talk about a morbid end to a blog post. But not the end to my Saturday:) I decided to break it up to make my life seem more exciting. Because I am about to embark on the boringest week filled with all things uni. ew.