Great Ocean Road

 So, after our drunken weekend we headed out for a road trip along Great Ocean Road and up to the Grampians National Park.

 The road follows the coast so there were plenty of opportunities to stop and take pictures of the scenery.

First time I've seen a wild koala!

 The first night we camped at a place called Johanna Beach. The seas are really rough the whole way along the coast so theres no swimming allowed.

It was a really photogenic beach!

 We spent our evenings playing games! Check out all the fun being had here!

 Our van had its own kitchen so we could have yummy dinners every night.

 Day 2, we stopped at Cape Otway Lighthouse. It cost $20!!! But by the time you've driven there it seems pointless to just drive away so we sucked it up and enjoyed the view.

 We finally reached the 12 Apostles, which is the main reason anyone drives along Great Ocean Road.

 The first time we went to the viewing point it started to rain so we headed back to the van to wait for it to ease off.

Some people get dressed up for the rocks

This one is called the Razorback

This one is called the double penis (probably)

 We headed back to the viewing point at sunset for more pictures. In the end we went to see the Apostles 4 times and if I never see them again I won't be disappointed!

Claire made 5 bean chilli for dinner. It kept the van smelling sweet for the rest of the trip!

 The next morning we woke up and had breakfast with a group of kangaroos (a group of kangaroos is called a mob, in case you were wondering!)

 Oh, those rocks again.

 This one is called London Bridge. It used to be attached to the mainland and you could walk out onto it but one day it collapsed and 2 tourists were left stranded for a few hours on it.

King of the world

 Day 4 we drove to Tower Hill Wildlife Reserve and had a picnic breakfast with some emus

 Then we went for a wander and found a koala, a kangaroo, and this snake.

 At the Grampians National Park we had a little work out session with some emus.

 And Claire demonstrated the official emu stance you're supposed to take if an emu starts to attack.

 We were supposed to go for a hike but it didn't really look too appealing on the map...

 So we chose a different route instead:

 We made it to the top!

 It was a pretty difficult climb over slippery rocks so we were all exhausted by the end and ready to head back to the van.

I DON'T HAVE A JOB!!!

Do you know how happy that makes me? A million!

Do you know what the only thing better than being unemployed is? These sexy faces all together in the same place:

Claine's first weekend in Melbourne mostly involved pickling our livers, but we also went down to St Kilda and saw this little cutie:

Wild penguin!

And had a great view of the CBD from the pier:

We also met up with some strangers from the internet. Luckily they were not dirty old men but lovely Hanson fans! Bonus!

We drank champagne with these guys and then reverted to being our usual classy selves:

With our magical vodka super powers topped up, we managed to turn Mathias into a dog! Amazing!

The spell soon wore off though, so we headed home but found an awesome mattress in the street on the way. That's right! FREE MATTRESS!!! Not ones to turn down a bargain, we grabbed it and scarpered:

Sunday was a beautiful day so we headed out to Yarra Bend Park (avid readers may remember it from my last blog post) for a barbecue with some of my friends from my EX-work:

Asia/Europe cook off

Working hard

Hardly working

Min's first time rowing!

Lesson number 1: sit securely on your seat

What a team!

The other boat made friends by crashing into people.

Everyone made it out alive. Yay!

My favourite Korean girlies! I will miss eating lunch with them every day.

Great first weekend! We have done lots of fun stuff since then but I'm exhausted from all the fun so will update later. I will, however, leave you with one last photo:

Hipster Gilli