Melbourne 1997

Janet and I travelled to Melbourne with my Aunty Ping for 5 days and 4 nights.

Hired a car and drove to Queen Victoria Markets for lunch before checking into our apartment in St Kilda, then off to the St Kilda Sunday Markets by the beach.

While in Melbourne, we drove the Great Ocean Road to see the Twelve Apostles, etc, drove to Phillip Island to see the fairy penguins parade, went to Bendigo to visit the gold mines, went 55 storeys high in the Rialto Tower to see Melbourne's panoramic views and finally gambled at the new Crown Casino. Didn't do much shopping, it was more of a scouting trip.

Go-Kan-Ryu Karate

Karate lessons on Wednesday nights.

I'm currently an orange belt, my next colour will be green after a few more lessons and kata.

Justin has started lessons again and is now coming along with me too.

My 31st Birthday

Since I didn't have a big do for my 30th, I compensated by having one for my 31st and invited all the girls at work to a Karaoke party to christen my new karaoke LD/CD player and surround system. It was on a Saturday night and the party didn't start raging until around 10pm, where with some drinks, the girls started singing and really getting into it.

Don't know whether the neighbours heard, but at least no police showed up to quieten us down. There was dancing, solid gold dancing, saturday night fever dancing, lambada dancing, lap dancing, even the macarena. 

Anyway it call came to an end at 1.30am the next day and we didn't get to bed til about 2.30am.