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enjoyed my wine tasting immensely. =D and dad was pleased with my selection of wines albeit he reckons that they were "pricey". lol. definetly pleased with my WYNdham choices. which sort of makes brokenwood look overpriced.

balanced it out with david hooks and rosemount.

the drive up felt short cause we stopped at the twin caltex stations/ maccas. and then proceeded to visit wineries along the way. so we stopped at the botton of HV and worked our way around to broke.

mt pleasant - rosemount/lindemanns - brokenwood - McGuigans - TT - Broke.

Broke is such a hole. Population: 400.

"that's less than Forkes"

Our house was quite amazing. awesome fireplace. nice and cosy but mattresses were too soft. we were in whoop whoop. lived opposite a farm. there wasn't even a strip of shops.. there was like.. one shop. it mightve doubled as a petrol station as well. and it was a 20 to 30 minute drive back to HV central/ pokolbin. thoroughly enjoyable.

played tennis at these semi run-down courts. which was again, randomly in the middle of no where. not what i really expected. it took almost 90 minutes to get to a rally of 5 shots. LOLOL. yeah.

went to a cafe. bought some more wine. had a cranium showdown. hahaha.

"sperm and egg"

and oh LOLOL

"CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION CURVE"

no prizes of who came up with that one.

got up super early today to make scones. that turned out goooood. and then we went to wyndham. it was awesome. i loved the vineyard and the winery. and it was worth the trek up cause it's considerably further than the other wineries.

this is where i got my prized stash of wines (that were imo, the best ones i got on this trip). and dad agreeed. =D

tried like.. 5? 6? wines? v nice. and it was fun taking candid pictures and jumping off logs outside too. everyone else probably thought we were retarded.

then we went to the HV gardens. more photos. storybook garden was cool. stopped by the village so donna could buy some peanut butter reeses m&m wannabes.

i still don't think i quite understand what the awesomeness about it is.

then hit this irish pub for some pub grub. which turned out to be not that pubby. and then stepped on the accelerator home.. and saw all these other cars get booked by highway patrol.

hunter valley: beautiful, fresh air, scenic, wines, tranquil, country, AWESOME.

yesterday i got to be da driver =D we went to the blue mountains which was actually a pretty easy drive. not that far although there were quite a few cars considering. and the weather was really good. like there was a bit of sun and the mountain was actually blue and it was clear and you could see the three sisters pretty clearly. but like any other tourist destination in sydney, its a bloody rip off.. from parking to the skyway and scenic railway rides. and cause my aunt and uncle are so chicken and afraid of heights, we went for a little bit of a track walk instead. didn't stay too long since there wasn't much to see.
we went to canley vale for lunch. and of course, you'd have to have viet food there. and we went to buy fishies!!!
- 5 rosy barb tetras
- 6 black neons
- 2 yoyo loaches
and i got 2 clown loaches the other day here in hurstville. and i have been convinced that i should not be buying discus cause they dont do too well in community tanks not to mention theyre shit expensive.
we took the scenic drive on henry lawson drive home. and you must be pretty stupid to be speeding there cause the cameras were in the jin-est positions but there were about a million speed camera warnings before you get to it. but doing anything over 60 there wouldve been so easy. (valval i feel for u) anyway it started to rain so it got slippery.
came home for a bit and went with mum and aunty to buy groceries and souveniers. and i walked past valerie. hahaha she was carrying this giant green stuff toy that she won from capital (after spendding $20... $40 for two since she was with rach who also allegedly has one) and shaking her head cause i didnt see her. -_- sorry my bad.
and i convinced them all to play 8 rounds of mahjong with me so we didnt go to sleep until 4 am!!! but it took me forever to 'open/eat' my first game. and we bet with real money. so im really really really poor now. but hey, its worth it =D

it was the tour from hell.. cept the driver. he was pretty cool (cause he wasnt asian and he was nice and very patient cause i wouldve lost it on the 2nd day)
in short. it was 6 hour trip there. hired all our skiing gear and stuff and got to the motel at 2:30 am and got 3 hours sleep.
we went to mt selwyn on the second day only to see grey skies and heaps of rain. so naturally, that meant we couldnt really do much so we were indoors for the day (we sat at the cafe drinking hot chocolate basically from 11 until 3 and it was a freakin rip off.. milo for $3 a foam cup O_o) anyhow, my cozin and uncle went for a toboggan and they got drenched so yeah.. kind of cold u know. had a pretty shitty "hot pot" dinner as well.. cause it was catered by non-asians, we had chicken and beef stock as the soup base, soggy vermicelli and rice boiled in chicken stock.. sound tempting?
today was awesome though. perisher was blue skies and not too cold. so took the kid tobogganing. i wouldve gone for a ski but i didnt want to by myself. so nevermind that. both smiggen hole and perishe ski fields were pretty packed. on the last few runs we even managed to get some air from going over a rock =D that was so mad.
anyhow, about the tour bunch. they were annoying, selfish, inconsiderate, late, etc. there was this fuckin shanghai woman who had halfie kids.. she had 5 ppl so obviously one would have to sit separately.. and there was this group of 10. and basically, the seating was fucked and everytime they got on the bus, they just sat anywhere and refused to move. so we wasted so much time because of them. like if everyone gave a little and was more considerate there would be no issues. even other ppl who werent affected were like just fuckin sit down and she was yellin at everybody about how 'in china, we would always sit together.. theres no such thing as sitting separately' and at that stage i wanted to be like 'this is fuckin australia, just shut the fuck up and sit down u bitch'. poor driver had to pull over and he was fully shaking his head probably muttering 'why why me? unbelievable...' i feel for him man. and then she kept raving on about it and HER KID FUCKIN THREW UP ALL OVER THE PLACE. STUNK UP THE BUS. disgusting pigs
oh and no joke, this girl (on our tour) fracturered her leg on a fall on the slopes. she was in ospital and shes in a cast and crutches. ouch
i wouldve preferred a weekend at home and a shift at work. no joke. at least we're back now.