Bathurst blast

This post is a little late, but as they say “better late than never!” I was a busy girl last week making my way around Australia. There was Canberra last weekend, and then I spent four days in lovely Bathurst last week.

I took the train to go visit Adam’s cousin, Bonnie. She lives in Bathurst and I really wanted to go and visit before school started when I would have plenty of time. Bathurst is located just over the Blue Mountains so I had some great scenery to look at on the train ride. Bonnie was there to get me from the station when I arrived which was great because I really didn’t want to take the bus to get to her. That first night we made dinner and watched a really good Aussie film called Lucky Miles. I would recommend this movie as it was both interesting and quite funny.

It has happened three times now. I have been taken to three places I have already been to before. Not been before with Adam, but places I went the first time I came to Australia (before I knew Adam). The first occasion happened at a restaurant in Bondi when I came over for new years. The second occurrence was two weeks ago at a pub that I Kate and I went to with her friends. Then last week, Bonnie dropped me off at a town to shop around in while she had a meeting to go to. You guess it; I had already been to this town. There is a rock formation in Katoomba called ‘The three sisters’ next to Katoomba is a town called Leura. When I came to Australia for the first time we went and saw the “the three sisters’, but we stopped and had lunch in Leura. It is just so funny to me that I keep going back to the same places.

The rest of the time in Bathurst was good. Bonnie and I had a good time just relaxing and hanging out. We went for a walk outside of a creepy town called Sofala. On the walk we saw kangaroo, horses, sheep, cows, and heaps of birds. Bonnie even tried to convince a baby lamb to go home with us stranger danger style by offering it candy and puppies. It didn’t work.

Thursday was awesome because we went ice-skating! Bonnie semi works with kids and we took them ice-skating. I think none of them had ever been before and it was so great to see their faces as they took to the ice. Most of the kids kept to the wall or had those of us who had been hold their hand. One little girl you would never have known that she hadn’t been before. She put one foot on the ice and immediately was doing turns and whatnot. Amazing. We also spent the day celebrating NAIDOC, which stands for “National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee.”

Sorry Bonnie that it took me so long to post about the wonderful time I had with you! At least I did and that is all that matters. I can’t wait until my next visit!! Mmmmkay!?