Cruisers, trams, showers and bedding

The title of this blog, I can imagine, will sound very odd to the inexperienced, however, do not fear, I plan to explain all...

Yesterday was a fantastic day, in fact, our best so far. We woke up with a rather large 'to do' list, comprising of all the things we needed to get for our camper and the long road trips ahead. Included on our list was curtain hooks (a few missing!), a kettle, pillow cases, bed sheets, knives, tin mugs and plates, potato peeler and most importantly; LONGBOARDS (Aussies call them 'cruisers').

We looked in a few shops in St Kilda for longboards but Luke had something a little more specific in mind so we decided to head into the centre, where we would also be more likely to encounter the other list items in the process.
Our Myki cards had run out of credit (they're the Melbourne tram equivalent of Oyster cards) so we ended up free-riding in, what do you expect from free-loading travellers, eh!?
Once we got into the centre, we managed to get all the other items on our list, bar the curtain hooks (still looking for those, where the hell sells curtain hooks!?). We then decided to try the surf shops for some cruisers.
A couple of hours later and we had found our new prized possessions! I have a Sector 9 double set up truck system (sorry - won't give a detailed explanation of this today) and Luke has a rather cool eco-friendly Freedom Dolly board, for which we also got some ginormous wheels so it looks a bit like a dragster cruiser now.

We took the boards out after our dinner on the beach (we like our free BBQing dinners on the beach). We skated along the cycle path for ages and enjoyed Melbourne city lights on the horizon in the distance.

Our bed - complete with bedding!

Later that night, we went to sleep on our bed that actually now comes complete with pillows and sheets! Up until now we had been sleeping on our hoodies and using donated blankets. Last night was utterly luxurious.
This morning we decided to venture back into the centre (yup, you guessed it - still free-riding the tram) and use our Fitness First guest voucher that we were kindly donated by one of the backpackers in the hostel (you hold onto this kind of useful stuff when you're travelling). We were rather excited to use our passes with the sole intention of having lengthly hot showers as, rather disgustingly, but perhaps to be a regular ocurrence, we hadn't showered in three days! I am now wonderfully hair free and Luke has also been exercised. Smiles all round. Apart from the poor salesman who tried very hard to get us to purchase their expensive membership, he was probably a little disappointed when we decided to hot-foot it out of there when he went back into his office to get us some more info on current 'deals'. Sorry Dan - we're on a budget!

We're off now to enjoy the rest of our day as the sun is now shining (it was stormy this morning) and we have cruisers to play with.

Turrah x