Grampions!!!

yeah.. last weekend, i went to the grampions with my frens. it was a 2 day, one night tour. my apartment, the YMCA were the organisers. it was so tiring!! my legs could have broke!

grampions is a place somewhere in melbourne.. it like some part of the country high up on a few mountains. we woke up at 6 in the morning to prepare and board the bus at 7.10am. it was so darn early and i stayed up late the night before to finish up my weekend homework. but at least we could sleep on the bus.

we packed our bags the night before. we were gonna staying over at some cabin, in which there were no blankets and pillows and so we were advised to bring them on our own... but my freiends and i didn't want to carry heavy stuff.. so we brought bedsheets instead, and intended to wear thicker clothing to sleep.

first we went to the winery. it's the best place man, coz compared to the other places, in which you will read later, i didn't have to risk my life hiking over dangerous rocks and mountains. and we were offered to taste 8 different wines in total! yum!! there were 4 bitter wines and 4 sweet wines.. they were so good!!!! i tried 6 wines in total i think. all 4 sweet ones and 2 bitter ones.. i love the botrytis reisling dessert wine the most! it was tellow in colour and it was the sweetest, yet strong wine! i felt quite hight there,.. ahhahahahahhahaha

then we went to our cabins! it was so nice!!! imagine a clear land in the middle of a coniferous forest, the grass was so green and bright! and there were wild kangeroos all over the place! not to mention kangeroo poo!!! it was great! the cabin was so like a cavervan! they had a kitchen, 2 double deck beds and a double bed, with a dinning area and a toilet. it was so small but surprising comfortable! so cool right? and just outside our windows were grren grren grass with the kangeroos!

after we out down our things, we went to this aboriginal cultural centre and watched a lame movie about the aboriginies' explaination of the formation of the mountains in the grampions.. it all started out with this large evil emu.. hahaahah and how he kicked some rocks open to form valleys and stuf.. very lame.. but nontheless interesting! ahhaha

then we went to the Mckenzie falls.. it was so easy climbing down the hundreds of stairs to reach the waterfall but when it was time to climb up.. wow.. my legs could have broke!!! however, despite the pain, (and the bordem for my case) my frens and i took many pictures, not so much for me but yeah.. we did take pictures. the water was unusually yellow though.. the movie we watched just now said that the emu was bleeding and left a trail of blood which became this river... shouldn't the river be red then? ahhaha i'm talking nonsense..

next, we went to the balconies, just this place where you get a fantastic view of the mountains... very nice, but i was a litlle bored.. hahha as always.. you know, i'm not cut out for hiking and sight seeing, just wanna enjoy the company of my frens, play games and take pictures with them. but the whole group was so fast at climding and all that, they weren't interested to stop and take pictures! my frens and i always ended up holding thew group behind. ahhah, but who cares! we paid for this trip you know! =p

then it was back tot he cabins, sherleen's fren, yee koon brought over speakers so we played our music very loud in the cabin, as though we could have a own club inside! hahhahah then we had BBQ for dinner. we saw a red fox while eating. and there was this greedy dog that belonged tot he owner of the cabins.. hahah.. he kept walking around for food!

then the fun and games began... 1st we played heart attack., then truth of dare, in which i was sabotaged to do really silly stuff.. hahah shall not elaborate further. thern we played this game where you have to act out words.. we were slpit into 2 gps and the other gp gave us so hard words to act out! like courage the cowardly dog, johnny english etc etc.. ahhaha, very lame. then we slept... i felt so cold, but gald that i brought at elats the bedsheet.

the next day was hell for me! we went to 2 destinations in which we only joined 1 of them. coz we climbed this mountain that was so scary!!! i swear! i could have fallen to my death! it was so silly of me to waer my roxy shoes that didn't have much friction! i had another addidas shoes i left in my house, i didn't want to wear it coz i knew it would get dirty.

the communication was pretty bad within the group.. the people in fron tof us were interested in taking pictures or stopping to view and relax, they just wanted to hike hike hike and it was so boring for me, not to mention tiring! we lost the gp on our way up and took a wrong turn, so we had a more difficult course,, hhahhaha but luckily we still reached the top and met the rest of the gp there. then.. sigh.. the climbing down part... more scary! i slipped so many times i lost count! it was definitely more than 10 though. maybe even 20! my gp got split up when we were going down coz we didn't want to lose the group like when we climbed up. so we acted at the "middle" people. wow.. my legs were so shaky, and it was raining! my frens and i were all wet.. coz my jacket was kinda water proof, but it was difficult keeping the cap on when you climb!

the last destination, we were too tired to move out of the bus. my frens and a few others stayed in the bus and slept.. we wanted to go, but we looked outside at the trees swaying so hard coz of the strong wind, we decided not to go. it was as if the trees were yelling "help!!!!!!!!!" they were swaying so hard in the wind! then after a few hrs journey, we went to macdonalds' for a free meal!!(in which we pre-paid for lah) then reached home only at 6pm pn sunday.. tiring but fun!