Heyo! Guess what? Recent stuff has been happening for me to blog about woohoo!
I should do this more often, you know? Blogging. It makes me happyyyyy but I don't usually have much to blog about and I'm super paranoid that someone irl will find this blog and be all like 'OOOOH LOOK ALL OF LEANNE'S SECRETS' Sound pretty stupid right?
Write everything about your life online, where it can be seen and shared with all. And yet want, -ahem-, privacy?! Indeed.
And that is the reason why I don't post very personal things up here anymore. I keep it all in my head. Where it eats at my brain. And drives me crazy. HA.
Onto things, a few weeks back me and a few close friends went to Sydney! For no absolute reason. We used 'WE WANT TO GO SEE THE HARRY POTTER EXHIBITION' as an excuse. But really, we just wanted to travel. And as for me, I wanted to get away from everything.
I arrived earlier than the other girls, a day earlier actually. To visit family and my cousins. Went to dinner out with some uncles to a nice Thai & Laos restaurant called 'Sitney'. Food was gooooooood. There's this raw beef salad thing, I have no idea what it's called because uncle ordered it and I sat there going 'Yeah, I'll eat everything'. And then stopped by in a neighbourly ice cream cafe called Little Star Cafe and Ice cream. Gosh the green tea ice cream was good there.
And that basically concluded the whole night. Did I also mention I took a nap for about 6 hours on my aunt's couch? Twas a good couch.
And then the next morning, hopped into my uncle's truck and ran some deliveries with him until he dropped me off at our accommodation for us girls for the next two nights in Bankstown.
These guys are tough stuff. Arrived on a flight at 6am that morning, and by 10am we were at Bankstown station waiting for a train to take us into the city. If it were me and my lazy ass, I would've stayed in bed until who knows when.
Trains in Sydney are double decker. Pretty damn awesome. Everyone gets a seat!
But judging from my experiences using the public transport in Sydney, they need to learn a thing or two from Translink. Buying paper tickets all the time really sucks balls. I can't imagine where we'd be without gocards nowadays.
You can tell we had a good time flopping around on the train and camwhoring like there's no tomorrow.
And then as soon as we got off at the city, we had no idea where we were. But I can guarantee you, we got a lot of useless shopping and camwhoring done all the while we were looking for the Powerhouse to see the HP exhibit.
-whips out google maps-
We thought Sydney was pretty good looking at this point. Just check out the cobbled pathways (this isn't a very attractive one, but there's more!)
Fancypants doorways and vintage townhouses
And diabetes tea. Does that mean it'll GIVE you diabetes? I can do that without requiring any extra effort (or tea).
Oh yes. We have fond memories of this place. Hannah's hot pies. It was the highlight of our trip. Pies, hotdogs and cheese sauce. Cheese sauce. Did I mention cheese sauce? Because cheese sauce.
Can't go to Sydney without stopping by Paddy's markets and touching some balls.
Wet balls, for that matter.
And if anyone (and I mean, ANYONE) knows me, I LOVE pigeons. So when I saw a bunch of pigeons and seagulls I had to get in there and look like a complete idiot. People stared. Whatever. Fuck you, I have my pigeons.
COLD ROCK. Yeah, we have these in Brisbane. But damn, it was a hot day and ice cream looked so good. I can't remember what flavours we ordered.. It was like.. vanilla bean, Baileys and.. ferrero rocher? And we asked for drizzled nutella in it too. Yes, it was amazing.
And after a long while trekking around Paddy's markets and eating everything in sight, we actually made it to the Powerhouse. It was illegal to take pictures inside the exhibition, and I was GOING to be rebel and take pictures anyway but there were security people everywhere and it rather sucked.
But the exhibition was good as. They had actual costumes and uniforms from the movies for EVERYONE. Even the crazy cat lady in pink. You even got to see Hagrid's cottage, a section of the Forbidden Forest (complete with a fucking giant ass spider), Voldemort and his death eaters and the Horcruxes themselves D:
Did I also mention you got to see Dobby and Faux the Phoenix too? AND THE WHOLE SELECTION OF CANDIES OFF THE TROLLEY. I could have eaten it all, if only the glass case wasn't in the way.
And I swear to god, we spent more time in the gift shop than we actually did in the exhibition. Everything was crazy over priced. Stickers were $10 for a pack of 4. Harry Potter glasses were $15. A movie replica of the time turner was $95 (but then again, it was gold plated, with engraving and came in the prettiest glass case). And I bought a wand! THE ELDER WAND. Oh yes. But it did set me back $60, sadface.
And then we stumbled upon the most awesome of awesomes. Old school arcade machine! With free plays!
We played Space Invaders and I pwnd hahaha Alex's very own words 'We can tell who is the gamer out of the both of us'
And then I continued to pwn at PacMan too. Did a lot of raging as well.
MOAR PIES.
And ... the next morning.
Lena being fancypants and putting on her makeup while I rolled around in bed being a big fat bum.
It's Taro the Christmas llama! A gift from a bumbum.
And HALF of our junk, piled in a corner.
Morning stoner face
Alex is nomming so early in the morning already.
Yay for iPhones! Welp, more to be continued in the next post. My wrists are hurting from all this typing and laptop usage.
I think I have carpal tunnel. Ahahaha, fuck.
