saturday with the family

after waiting in line FOREVER with mum at the polling booths, getting more and more narkey from lack of sleep and food i got to vote. trumpets sounded off. did i feel that joy of getting a say in the way that my country is run... um no... whole thing was a complete farce.

unlike breakfast at joe's garage on brunswick street. thank heavens for eggs benedict. by this time it wasn't really breakfast but an early lunch. then i got to wander around laneways in the city, showing mum the highlights of my glorious city.

we popped out to the airport to pick up chris and reg (aunt and uncle) at twilight. they arrived an hour late, but it was tiger air, so that they arrived at all was a blessing. ;)

and since the three of them were visitors to my fair melbourne i could only do the one thing i really didn't want to do, but... i took them to crown casino. not my cup of tea by a long shot.





but...

mum almost forced me to put a coin in the pokies. which i did and then promptly broke the machine. once repaired there was $3 of coinage to play and the machine practically played itself. i walked out with $120. and no mum, i will not be a regular at that strange place. but it did pay for my new red bag which will henceforth be known as my casino bag. ;)