"Ok Evan, this is where we're going to RACE"

Despite doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING on Friday (primarily due to toe immobility), Saturday was pretty incredible.  Ignoring the painfully early 7 a.m. wake-up after a night of insomnia, I met up with Camille and Melissa and a bunch of other uni kids for SEA KAYAKING!  We hopped into the van and headed out for this place called Portsea, and were initially pretty bummed b/c it started raining on the way, and that plus being tired + injured made me not too excited....

However, once we got to the drop point and unloaded the boats and everything, the sun came out!  We paddled around to this place that used to be a quarantine station for boats coming into Melbourne, where they would burn anything they deemed to be contaminated with disease, to try to keep Melbourne clean.  Then we headed over to this really nice quiet beach for lunch, before hitting the water again.  We were about to head around this point when all the sudden we saw wild dolphins in the water!  We promptly turned around and started following them, and next thing I knew, we were in the middle of a pack of at least 10 dolphins that were swimming around our kayaks!

It was so unbelievably awesome!  The dolphins were getting so close I probably could have reached out and touched one if I wanted too, and they kept making passes under our boats, so that at one point I looked over the side to see the white belly of a dolphin passing underneath me!  SO COOL!!!

After we got back to the van though, we were BEAT.  4+ hours of nonstop paddling will do that to you......

That night I didn't really do much, due to being so tired.  Camille came over, and she and I, along with Christine, opted to watch bad horror movies, and watched 30 Days of Night (least scary horror movie I think I've ever seen).....blech

Today has also been uneventful, apart from getting a glorious amount of sleep, and then getting abducted by Stathi.  He picked up me, Christine and Camille and drove us around Melbourne, showing us some of the sights, and took us over to St. Kildas, which was quite possibly one of the coolest places on earth!  It reminded me of a livelier, cleaner version of Berkeley.  It had loads of independent shops and cafes and whatnot, and of course it has Luna Park!  I've been DYING to check out Luna Park, mainly because of the massive face at the entrance to it (google it).

It has such a genius concept for a theme park, since admission is actually free!  You only pay for the rides you want to go on, which is so awesome, because if you don't like it, you're not out 50$ :)  So we wandered around St. Kildas for a while, hitting up the pier, market, and some cafes (got churros w/melted chocolate mmmmmm) before heading home. 

And until now I've just been gathering more information on my assignments and at least PLANNING on getting some work done :/  It's daylight savings here, so we gained an extra hour today, which is awesome, but now I'm super tired and it's only 8:45!

Tomorrow is gonna consist of loads of errands (making a stupid dr.'s appt for my foot being top of the list :/) *grumble grumble hate being injured grumble*