Girls' Night Out

Sheena, Alena, and me at Naked for Satan

Kelly, Kristy, Emily, and Maggie toast to Girls' Night

On the Tuesday night before everyone had Wednesday off of work for ANZAC Day, all of the girls from our Tough Mudder Team AUSsome reunited for a girls' night out. We met up at Naked for Satan, which is a cool bar in the suburb of Fitzroy on Brunswick Street. They have yummy flavored vodkas and fun food. You pick from an array of little tapas, and you save the toothpick found in each one. At the end of the night, you pay $1 per toothpick ($2 on the weekends). It's a good deal, and you get to try all sorts of things. We hung out here until the place shut down at around midnight.

It's true-blondes have more fun!

Then we headed to a different bar for some dancing. The DJ played great music, and we had an awesome time getting our groove on. One of my favorite moments was when the Americans (Emily, Alena, and I) requested Miley Cyrus' "Party in the USA," and then we went crazy when it played! We shut this place down too and then headed home. I definitely haven't been out past 2am in a very long time, and I took a much needed nap the next day. But it was worth it. Girls' night out was a blast, and we hope to do another one soon!

P.S. It's not too late to enter our contest!

Cricket with Kris and Kevin

Kris was my roommate in Farley Hall during my freshman year at Notre Dame, and in August, she married a guy named Kevin. I couldn't make it to their wedding, but they took a delayed honeymoon to Australia! After visiting the Great Barrier Reef and before heading to Sydney and then New Zealand, they stopped over in Melbourne for a few days. We didn't have the greatest of weather over the weekend, but we made the best of it.

One thing we did was go to a cricket match at the MCG on Friday night. Australia was playing Sri Lanka. The match started at 2:30pm, but we just went for a few hours in the evening. We must have looked like total dorks reading the rules of the game on Wikipedia on our phones while watching the game, but once we understood it a bit, cricket was much more fun to watch! The main thing I didn't know is that there are two batsmen at one time, and they score points by running back and forth between the wickets after hitting the ball. I won't go into all of the other rules; if you really care, check out this link.

Only certain sections of the stadium were full, but there are apparently tons of people from Sri Lanka living in Melbourne, because there were lots of spirited fans cheering for the Sri Lankan team! Australia ended up winning in the end, but only by 15 runs (which is not a lot). Check out the picture above with Gatorade guys on segways!

Kris and Kevin in front of Flinders Street Station on a cloudy Friday night.

On Saturday after a nice breakfast at a cafe, I took Kris and Kevin around the city on the free city circle tram, with a stop at the Queen Victoria Market. They enjoyed the ever-interesting meat hall (tongues, cheeks, livers, etc.), some souvenir shopping, and a few yummy macaroons. Unfortunately, it rained all day! In the evening, we played some euchre at our place before heading to the Fitzroy area and Brunswick Street for drinks and dinner. Good times! It was awesome to finally catch a cricket game and show an old college pal around my new home. Happy honeymoon Kris and Kevin!