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I'm travelling back in time now and testing my memory and diary writing skills, so it should be brief...
Arrived on Friday and was pleasantly supprised to find that Jake, Jeremy and Dean were all in town, as well as Justin. Had beers and a fire (fence palings & overgrown shrubs) until it started to get dark, after 8, so weird. My earlier power-nap wasn't enough unfortunately as I was also falling asleep when we went out in Fitzroy... The previous night with Dennis and Douglas in Cairns was another good one. Visited a bunch of places including the pretty cool but pretty expensive Berlin Bar, then crashed at Jake's, he's so hospitable.
The Laneway festival was on Saturday, and spent way too long getting there on the tram just for the novelty. Went to see the Dirty Three, and they were awesome, but not a crowd favourite so wasn't as fun as I had imagined. Only a few randoms really getting into it. It was good seeing Daniel Johnston and The Middle East for my first time, and I'm still in love with Sarah Blasko. Florence and the Machine was absolutely packed but I wasn't really in the mood for it since the Dirty Three didn't get such a good turn out. Met my cousin Bianca and her friends in Fitzroy afterwards, and to the dismay of both of us, we ended up at a pop music type place.
Went down to St Kilda with Juzzy on Sunday before heading up to Albert & Marion's for the night. Everyone was home for dinner and the usual (so I'm told) circus ensued, but it was very nice. Not everyone was around last time I visited Melbourne, so there was a fair bit of catching up to do.
Frank picked me up from the train station on Monday and we went for a little drive to see how extensive the 2009 bushfires were, hard to imagine that it was so bad in some areas that they reckon it won't just regrow! Made the most of a washing opportunity here (sorry Marion haha) before another nice dinner with the whole family, and my last opportunity so see some good tele for a while.
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