Escapism: Melbourne Trip Part 1

I left for Melbourne on Wednesday the 4th. Had an egg mcmuffin and a mango and banana smoothie from Boost Juice and struggled to keep them down from all of the nerves. (I absolutely hate flying) My brother picked me up from the airport and we went back to his house. We went to Central Melbourne shopping centre, wandered around a bit. I bought a studded headband from Dangerfield.

New headband. - $7

We went to see the new Mission Impossible movie which was rather good. Spent the rest of the evening watching Family Guy, Friends, Anchorman and V for Vendetta

Thursday
After waking up from a rather late sleep in we spent the rest of the morning watching TV. Later on we took the dogs to the dog beach (I forget where it was). It was so funny watching all of the dogs there run around, chases balls, chase each other, trip over and just act like maniacs. There were big dogs and small dogs and they kept chasing each other in a line, it was like something out of a cartoon. We washed the dogs when we got home because they were covered in sand. Spent the rest of the afternoon watching Family Guy, Friends and The Simpsons and watched Knocked Up in the evening.

Friday
After a decent sleep-in I went shopping with my brother to help him find a Christmas present for mum. I picked out some really long black earings for her (which she adores) and a tin of Madagascan Vanilla tea from T2 (which is one of her 2 favorite flavours of tea). I helped my brother look for Tshirts for him and we found a couple. I also managed to find a pair of ballet-flats that actually fit my feet (I've been unable to find any that stay on my feet what with their narrowness and high arch) and my brother also bought me a batman shirt .

New Wallet - $11

New shoes - $10

New batman shirt

After eating lunch we headed home and kicked around watching TV for a bit, I packed my bag and later in the evening my brother and I headed over to the Grandville Hotel to meet up with my uncle Keith. Food was alright and the conversations were interesting. After dinner Keith took me to the Billinghurt's (My auntie Annie, Uncle David and cousins Michael and Jemma) place. I sat with Keith talking till late and we decided we were going to go shopping together the next morning. I went to bed not long after he left.

Saturday

I got up around 9 and was god damn tired. Keith picked me up around 10:30 and we headed down to Richmond. It's a pretty damn good area for shopping, there's higher end brand's boutiques mixed in with factory clearance outlets and just cheap stores in general. I ended up buying lots of stuff as well as having very good conversations with Keith, he's always so easy to talk to and we relate to eachother very easily.

$15 from the red cross thrift store

All of these following items were from an outlet that sold various samples, seconds and end-of-lines

$10 by Mink Pink. Caption says
'Hey you get offa my cloud'

$10 by All About Eve

$10, brand unknown

$10 by All About Eve

$15 by Sass

$5 from the Cotton On outlet

$2 from the Cotton On outlet

$15 from a small bag/wallet store.
(this bag is actually pretty huge)

Sunday

Spent the whole day at bumming around on the internet, accomplished nothing.

Monday

Went shopping with Annie and Jemma at Foresthill shopping centre because the Myers there was closing down the following Thursday. I initially went in the hopes of finding swimmers but they were either not in my size, not to my taste or too expensive, there was one pair I really liked but I decided against because they were still a bit too out of my price-range. I tried on more bras than I ever have in my life and Jemma complained the whole time about having to try on about 3.

$23 down from $70. By Pleasure State

$3 gold and brown mascara

$6 by ChiChi

I had a small box of assorted sushi for lunch and then we went to Dimmeys. I hadn't actually been to Dimmeys before, despite having looked through brochures and having heard many good things about it but I definitely was pleasantly surprised when I saw the underwear section. Now if you know anything about my shopping habits you'd know I have a bit of an obsession with buying pretty underwear, and a damn lot of it (I do always get it cheap though so it is somewhat justified.) it's just one of those things that instantly makes me feel better about myself. Anyway, at this particular Dimmeys there was a relatively large women's underwear section filled with all sorts of different types of underwear; there was all sorts of awful crap ranging from granny panties, terribly small pairs of G-strings (or as I like to call them, 'butt floss'), Fluffy G-strings, numbers of pairs that looked like they were aiming for 'skin tone' but hit closer to 'skin tone if the skin of the person in question rolled around in dorritos, chocolate milk and baby vomit', and lots of awful prints of weird coloured flowers and statements that made no sense in the context they were placed in (that context being some chicks ass) but there was still a great deal of really nice stuff including stuff by brands such as Bonds, Ants Pants and even Calvin Klein. I picked through a bunch and found 3 pairs of underwear (2 pictured) and a bra and panty set.