Got into Melbourne on the 21st and went over to windsor, which is a good twenty minutes from southern cross station, main train hub in the city similar to gare du nord, which is next to chapel st, super cool street filled with restaurants to bars and all night clubs, past the arenas which got me into going to watch some round play live at Rod Laver Arena, which was hosting knunetsova who beat caroline wozniaki, azarenka who defeated some random girl, and jo willy songa from france who defeated richard gasquet from france as well. The mens play was outstanding because they play at such a high velocity of power compared to the girls who moan and groan like they're hiding something.
Then we, me and tracy Shortle, a friend i worked with at Cucuna Enoteca, went out to this japanese teahouse on chapel street which has amazing food and tea with cute quotes saying rive rong and prasper written as shown on the menu to a japanese guy dressed in a suit looking like a danced pose pouring tea out of a tea pot on the ground while giving you this funny smile of yeaaa.
Then I went to bed and the next day we headed to the city by train to walk around the streets which has an artist who was making names out of metal wires to form necklaces and bending the same kind of wire to form mini bicycles, scorpions, and spiders. Deciding to be a tourist for once we headed to the aquarium, I dislike tourists, aquariums, and zoos because I love animals when they're in their own habitat living happily from day day struggles with mother nature rather than in a tiny box strangling them from migrating thousands of miles to bread or feed.
After that goodness of being filled with sadness we walked out and arrived at the crown casino which is almost as big as South coast plaza or a mile long architecturally warped warehouse filled with really nice shops, Louis V., Dior, and many more, a huge poker room :), 2.5 dollar roulette tables, some twenty one tables, and a nice fat filling food court. Played 20 dollars on roulette and went down to 5 then up to 35 then back to twenty, left after being safe. Don't really like the casino games because if your not feeling it you'll lose and if your feeling it your more susceptible to losing so we headed down to the poker room where patience is key and something I feel a little more confident playing. Played a hundred and within 20 minutes, patience isn't usually this quick, caught quad queens for a nice double up and then didn't want to make tracy wait so we bounced over chapel and ate at yellowbird, semi ok mexican food.
The next day, 23rd, I woke up for a nice 6 mile jog around town and down chapel street which ended with some nice stairs overhanging Dadenong road.
Packed up all my gear and headed back out to southern cross to rail my way to Ballan, which is 20mi to Daylesford, a small beautiful spread out town an hour away from Melbourne that has huge patches of yellow grass plains with small ti sometimes large patches of green trees.
The reason coming to this town was to work, applied online at taw.com.au (Travelers at work), at the Lake House, an amazing restaurant and hotel that sits on the water of the lake. This place is owned by three amazing people, Alla, Allan Wolf-Tasksr and their daughter Laresa. Alla is a two hat award winning lady chef who seems to bring not only taste in a dish but fucking geniusly magnificent character that comes out of the plate with combinations perfectly tied together bringing balance to each organic, sustainable, and biodynamic component. Allen,on the other hand is Alla's husband who is the artist, imagination, behind the place whom has many cool paintings, including one that has a creepy french looking man dipping his nose in a wine glass showing you how it smells and the architecture of the hotels rooms overlooking the lake. Laresa is the marketing of the whole place and is similar to the president of operations making sure everything runs smoothly.
The 24th was my first day at the LH and I headed out to Ballarat, another small BFE town 44km away from Daylesford, to get some work clothes which turned up into getting a brand new Felt F83 for 700 Australian quid till now. So far I've restaurant I've learned everyones names, FOH (front of house) and BOH (back of house) including all hotel staff, all the entrées, mains, most desserts, where everything is and which tables is which with seat positions, and all in the while of having fun learning how to make the perfect coffee. Although the hours are longer than eight I'm enjoying every single one and can't wait for the day i train someone.
Also moved into the staff house that has been housing three really cool people, Diego from Bogota, Tim the mad Tasmanian surfer, and Pika chu Pokemon Rachel from South Korea.
For now enjoy yourself and help someone out for good will return to you in another form.
#happiness
Photo Tags hopefully in order:
Tracy Shorle
Rod Laver Arena
Chapel street
Aquarium crown bridge
Metal man
Lake house
Felt F83
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