Weekend at Alice's

Alright, now I finally have a few minutes to sit and write about the rest of my weekend :).  On Friday afternoon Alice and I drove about an hour and a half North to her parents house to stay the weekend.  When we got there she showed me her town and where she went to high school and all that fun stuff and we pretty much just relaxed and watched a movie on Friday night.  We got up early Saturday morning and drove with her mom about 2.5 hours to a town called Bundaburg.  It was a really cute town, I am not sure how many people lived there but it wasn't too big.  Bundaburg is known for the rum they have been making since the 1920's.  They have some in America but it isn't everywhere like it is here.  98% of the rum they make stays in Australia, and it is all made at this one factory in Australia.


The tour took about an hour or maybe a little bit less and after the tour we got to go to the bar and have two drinks of Bundaburg rum.  I tasted the one called red something... and the other one I tried was a kind that people could only try at that one factory in the whole world and you can also only buy this kind at the one factory that I was at.  It was called Royal Liqueur and it has coffee and chocolate and you just mix it with milk or cream, it was really sweet and was just like a White Russian. I couldn't bring my camera in the tour with me because it has batteries and nothing with batteries could go, or else I would have taken some pictures.  I guess I will be the only one that knows what it looked like in real life, and it was pretty cool!

After our tour was over we looked around the town a little more, ate lunch and went back to Alice's house.  When we got back we just played with her two dogs Bonnie and Zack and her 6 chickens and watched a movie, spent time online (school work of course) and relaxed. 

They were so cute and I loved them! They get all of their eggs from these chickens and the chickens have a huge 'house' and just roam around in their yard.  Sometimes Zach (the dog) scares them when he tries to play with them! They don't have names though so I don't know who I am holding.

When we woke up Sunday morning we went to the beach to catch the dolphin feeding.  They have a dolphin feeding every morning and it is like a 5 minute drive from Alice's house.  Almost 100% of the time dolphins will show up for this because people can pay money to get a dead fish and give it to the dolphin and they all know where to go in the morning to get food.  All of the dolphins are wild.  When we went at 8am Sunday morning only one dolphin showed up but it was pretty cool.  They have a name for him but I forgot it.  He was an adult male and had been into two shark fights before so he was in rough shape but he was happy when we saw him.  He is all healed and happy as ever now.  It was really cool. He came right up to the beach as close as he could.

We were only there for a short period of time and then we went back to Alice's house and hung out there before we went over to a family friends house for a 'morning tea'.  Australians call any meeting that is after breakfast a morning tea.  Even if there is no tea and you are just going there for company it is still a morning tea, haha!  However I did have a cappuccino that they made me and it was delicious.  We hung out there for awhile outside on their patio and learned line dances by 60 year olds, haha! It was fun!

When we left there we got back to Alice's house (bout 5 minute drive) and packed up her car, said bye to the dogs and chickens and drove home.  On the way home we stopped to see Alice's horses.  She has two of them, one is her's and one is her sisters.  They live about an hour from her house toward school so we stopped and fed them some hay and bread.  They live at a friends house because they have more land for them there and she just makes sure they have water and the horses just eat her grass and eat other food when Alice comes to feed them.  They were both so beautiful.  Then we stopped at subway and hit the road for Uni!

Once we got back into town we had to stop at Woolworths to get some groceries for the week and I had to get a cake to bake for Anas's birthday.  So... More pictures and more about that on my next post :).  TTFN!