Melbourne, Adelaide, MYC and Uni

I haven't blogged for ages. I've had better things to do quite frankly :P

Melbourne and Adelaide was great - if a little cold and wet and windy. I flew Qantas (QF in IATA speak) on Thursday 7 July and "enjoyed" a roast chicken panini and Multi-V juice. Now I'm one of those who actually enjoys airline food, but QF has descended to another low with this thing. The roast chicken and stuffing occupied about 60% of the surface area of the roll. The lettuce covered the rest. It was reasonable tasting but gone are the days of two course hot lunches on Melbourne flights. I'm not complaining though, for $66 total airfare and 1000 frequent flyer (FF) points to boot.

Arrived in Melbourne, and it was a weird feeling going to the place and doing the same things I was doing the day before mum died. Same bus, same destination, it was difficult. Thanks to my support crew who kept me in their prayers. Good way to exorcise demons, figuratively; realistically it was a good way to allay the fears I've had - I was scared of flying since my last flight was so awful, I was scared of a lot of things.

Went to my accomodation, thanks Liz for the accomodation - cheap as chips in East Melbourne. Had Fox Footy (woohoo!) - went to The Cat Empire at the Prince of Wales in St Kilda that night. They were fantastic, support band was awful though (Symbiosis they were called...avoid unless you like over played music that's so loud that your ears are shot before you listen to the main act. Cat Empire live are better than on record, there's something visceral about their performing style.

Went to Carlton training on Friday arvo - thanks to Brendan Fevola and Andrew Walker for taking pictures with me, I'll publish those at a later date.

Lygon St for Italian on Friday night - at the Cafe Corrente....i'm still full from it, particularly the Italian Hot Chocolate at Brunetti's.

Met Ros and Al at Spencer St on Saturday morning. Walked about Queen Vic market - and went to Cafe Corrente and Brunetti's AGAIN (I'm addicted can't you tell??). Michael W Smith was fantastic at night.

Went to the footy on Sunday, Carlton got smashed by St Kilda (woohoo - draft picks!) but I managed to score Medallion Club tickets from my cousin (thanks Adrian) at Telstra Dome.

Adelaide was non-descript - except spending a day with Mecka, my Tanzanian pastor friend, that was great, and an evening with Tim and Gill Haslam, who were in Musoma while I was in Africa.

MYC was great...read Jeff's blog on http://jelification.blogspot.com for a run down of the talks.

And Uni's started....erk