On Friday, November 19, we met up with our friend Sacha at her place of work, Kingpin. Kingpin is an upscale bar/bowling alley in the Crown Casino. She got off of work at 6:00 p.m. so we went to meet her boss and friends for drinks and bowling!
At Kingpin Sacha introduced us to her boss Ron, who is originally from Buffalo, New York, who was happy to have some Americans on his side when his Aussie buddies start poking fun. Galen, a bar manager, is a big sarcastic bear of a man and gave me a hard time within the first minute of our introduction. I loved it though because, little did he know, I like to dish it right back :) Anthony, the IT guy for the company, was another one of Sacha's friends we met. Ron and Galen bought us lots of drinks and then we decided to play shuffleboard which is not very common in Australia. Sacha had NEVER played before! Thanks Jaimie Nestor for teaching me how to play years ago! So Jenni and I gave the Australians a lesson in shuffleboard :)
After that we bowled a couple of games. Bowling is $18 AUD! That is ExPeNsiVe! Ron payed though and we had a really great time! The coolest part of bowling was that every time you bowl a photo is snapped and put on the screen. This brought out the kid in all of us ages 24-40! haha. We were running behind each other making faces or doing silly dances! One guy even mooned behind Jenni!!! By this time there were lots of other employees off the clock bowling with us. No one knew what was going on until they went to look at the screen after they took their shot and saw whatever the surprise was behind them! haha. We ended the night with some Mackas (Aussie slang for McDonalds) in the Crown Casino food court and then took a taxi back to our hostel with Sacha.
The night was so much fun! We met lots of great people and had many laughs! Sacha is such a nice girl and we are so thankful that we met her at the tram stop days before. She has been so welcoming and included us in such fun outings! All of her friends were so great to us and it was as if we were just a part of their "crew" :) J and I are going back to Kingpin Monday, Nov. 21st, to talk to Ron about getting a job there, so I'll let you know how that goes!
The previous night to this fun Friday night we just hung out at the hostel with our German friends and took it easy knowing that Friday we were on the hunt for a place to rent! I took a few pics of our German friends so you can put names with faces :)
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| Lorenz! We'll keep in touch with this German guy for years to come :) |
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| Our friend Christian from Germany |
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| Phillipe, Jan, and Valentine: all from Germany |
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| CoffeePalace Hostel in St.Kilda |
The CoffeePalace Hostel has been so much fun and we have met awesome people from all over the world, but..........hopefully tomorrow we'll find a HoMe :)
Cheers!
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