City & St Kilder Beach

:: Melbourne City ::
:: Melbourne ::
:: Victoria ::
:: Australia ::

:: 17/09/08 :: 17th September 2008 ::
:: Sunny and warm - slight winds ::

** Today I went into the City with Rachel's sister Jessica. She has lectures at uni for a couple hours in the morning, so she dropped me off on Lygon St with all the shops. I walked up one side of the street (the sunny side) trying to find a quiet place to sit in the sun and have a relaxing drink. Most of the coffee places had quite a lot of customers so i walked futher on. I walked up quite far and then realised i was comming to the end of the street, but a little Pink shop on the corner in the sun caught my eye. It was a cake and coffee shop to my delight, so i went in and ordered myself a hot chocolate, which cost $4.00 [WOW 2 pounds! I was amazed at this cheapness]. I found my slef an empty table in the sun outside the shop and began watching the city people rush by. The lady brought me my drink and to my dissapointment it was in the same boring glasses costa use at their stores. **

** Well there my hot chocolate stood infront of me, oozeing with foam and chocolate, some of it escaping over the side of the glass. I dug into the foam with my extra long spoon and took my first mouthfull of foam, to my suprise it tasted AWSOME. The foam was amazing, unlike any foam i had ever tasted. And the hot chocolate its self was incredible! The best i had ever had. I was rather impressed with my $4.00 world's best hot chocolate discovery! As i finished i felt like going into the lady before i left to say "Thank you, that was the best hot chocolate i've ever had" but then i thought [She'll think what a freak!] so my thought got the better of me and i just walked away. Off to browse the shops. I found a nice top for $10 which weighed nothing ;) and for 5 pounds it was a bargain, and also suitable for the requirements of YWAM =] **

** After Jess had finished he uni stuff she picked me up from the park on Lygon St and i met her cute little Chinese friend Gin. I loved Gin's outfit! [All Chinese have awsome style!] And we headed off to St Kilder Beach. This was about a 30 min drive from Melbourne centre but it was a really nice place! We found a place to park near the beach and then walked up really close. We didnt actually go on the beach as Jessica kindly informed me that we might step on something in the sand {Fact, Melbourne's beaches are exactly like those on Neighbours, o if you want a nice beach avoid Melbourne hehe} However, Still nicer than England's excuse for a beach PEBBLES! **

** We came, we saw, we were now on a hunt for Gello & Ice cream! We walked along the beach front for a while and then headded towards the town. We found a nice little Gello & Sorbet hut. I had a Mango Shake, which i wasnt impressed with as the mango tasted very very weak! Dissapointed with my $5.80 spend on that when i would have much prefered another $4.00 hot choccy :P We walked around the shops of St Kilder for what seemed a long time! St Kilder definatly add $$ to their prices due to tourism, iwas rather expencive! We had seen all the shops and it was getting rather windy so we were getting cold so we began headding back to the car. **

** Back in the car i decided to take some quick photos of the gorgeous beach front houses! [Oh to live in one of those i thought] We dropped Gin home and then Jess and I headed back to Eden Park so Jess could study and so i could d some veging :P **

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