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Posted Thursday, 16 January 2014 // 05:55

Hi guys, I'm back from Melbourne! :D

Had an absolutely awesome time in the 5 or so days I was there. I had a great time spending time with family, especially with relative I haven't seen in at least 3 years. Also discovered a new member of the family - Cheese! She's our cat, who I have about 50 photos of because she's so cute. My cousin told me that when she went to the RSPCA to find a cat, all of them mewed/purred at you to choose them but not Cheese - she was just in her corner eating (my type of cat).

Anyway, we stay at Aunt Elinda and Uncle David's house. What was usually a 2-person house turned into an 8-person house and I really appreciate everything they did for us - especially the food which was so, so good and one of the things I'll miss most about Melbourne. We all travelled there mainly for Karman & George's wedding, congratulations to them both!!! :'-), which was great, but we also went to Kids Tennis Day and a few shopping centres. I don't remember what they were called (I think one of them was called The Glenn) but the shops were very similar, if not the same, to the ones in Sydney so there wasn't much shopping. Heaps of eating though.

Photo and caption time; apologising in advance if the photos are bad quality and out of order.

Meet Cheese :-) She's 9 years old, really fat (5.5kg) and spends all her time eating, sleeping and running very slowly. She's my literal spirit animal.

Dinner on our first day there. There was so much food, we were all actually suffering trying to get through it. When more dishes came, George put his face in his hands and you'd never seen someone so devastated.
Karman: Look at George, he's angry there's so much food.
George: I'm not angry there's so much food, I'm angry I can't eat anymore (spirit animal #2) '

Karman: I'm so full I need to lie down *proceeds to grab more food* (spirit animal #3)
Anyway, good cousin-bonding time.

The next day we went to George and Karman's house. This is Minnie, she was really shy at first but later let us pet her. :3

We had a tea ceremony, I had no idea what it was and clearly no one else did either... they just knew it was some ritual you have to do before marriage? We recorded it and it was the most hilarious/awkward thing ever because no one knew what was going on.

Karman and her dad practised walking down the aisle while George waited at the end. Not sure if serious or comedy show because my cousin was waving to us like she was the queen and George was sipping his lemonade.

Fruit on their front porch

Went home and ate more fruit

Had the best breakfasts everyday, not even kidding. Everyday Uncle David covered the table with toast, butter, jam, croissants, bacon, egg, omelette, beef patties, etc. I was in breakfast heaven.

Believe it or not, we were all digging into ice-cream 3 hours before the wedding

Aunt Elinda and Uncle David, parents of the bride!

Sisters reunite!!!

Inside of the maxi. We passed by this really cool place where there were pianos just sitting there for people to play on. So cute!

Can the genes in this family get any better

"You're not even tall next to Michael" Pretty sure he's 1.9m (bending down in this picture) so yEAH

After the wedding ceremony, everyone headed to the Windsor Hotel to wait for dinner and it was really pretty inside.

Somehow ended up in Karman and George's hotel and naturally, had to take selfies...

Drinks everywhere. I entered a bar for the first time and it was so loud???

There were drinks and canapes on the first floor and I felt like one of those really classy people in the movies LOL. Cause there were waiters carrying around drinks and I took the champagne and beer just for that fancy ~experience~ (y'all know what I mean) but they tasted gross and I ended up asking the very cute waiter for lemonade HAHAHA.

The entree was tiny and everyone was politely cutting it when in reality we could've put it in our mouths all at once. It's such a letdown when a hotel so gorgeous serves really disappointing food.... :-(

Kids Tennis Day @ Melbourne Park with dad and sister!!!!!

Melbourne is all sorts of cool.

FIRST TIME AT ROD LAVER ASNFKJAHFLASF, SO EXCITING!!!!!!!!!!

The atmosphere here was electrifying

IT'S NADAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My sister and I ran to the very front to take photos and I kinda just sat there in shock admiring his beauty. His smile is so adorable and he's so, so gorgeous. At one point he wiped his sweat using his shirt and I saw abs. When I returned to my seat I was out of breath and for once I don't think it was from physical exertion but rather the beauty of him.

LOOK HOW CLOSE I WAS!!!!

Federer and Nadal, my two loves

Never gonna forget this guy in yellow, he kept pushing and shoving and got Nadal's signature. Then he kept showing it off and everyone was like ok can u stop now

When I was on the train I realised that there were pen marks all over my leg which must've come from people going crazy when they were trying to get signatures LMAO. Afterwards, we went to Happy Cup and The Glenn for food.

Taiwanese food. George is the most hilarious person - he couldn't use chopsticks properly and when he couldn't pick up his dumpling, he used his hands to pick it up, put it between his chopsticks and proceed to eat.

Went to Hoyts to watch The Book Thief with my sister. Cried in the movie, just like I'd cried reading the book. Liesel is really pretty (and has the nicest clothes) and Rudy is also really good-looking. Good adaptation of the book, 7.5/10. Also, the cinemas had leather seats and plenty of leg space and it was so comfortable I melted into my seat

Okay so I've been addicted to La Da Dee - Cody Simpson and found out that it was the ending song in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2!!! Cutest summer song to groove to, everybody check it out.

Swag cat

Michael came over for dinner which was once again super awesome

Aunt bought us snacks to eat while watching the Aus Open :'-)

I spent my last 20 minutes in the house doing this

SHE'S SO FLUFFY I'M GONNA DIE!!!!!!!!! When we were leaving she was lying under the table looking a little sad and my aunt said she was actually sad because she knew we were leaving.

I thought the steward was cute so my sister took a photo and look at my face it's just like AYYY PAPI

Polaroid of Cheese and I, missing you already little buddy.

Melbourne 2014 was great and I'm happy I got to spend it with the people (and cat) I love.

Since returning I have done nothing but watch the Australian Open and this lifestyle will not stop until after the 26th.

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