Homeless

Got your attention?  Dont't worry, no biggy... The camper is booked in at the mechanics and will hopefully be fixed and free of all leaks (there were a few) and paid for, courtesy of the current owners, by tomorrow afternoon, when we hope to set off on our trip to Adelaide along the Great Ocean Road.

We are staying in a hostel tonight in St Kilda (see, I told you no biggy!) called Habitat HQ. It's much cleaner than Nomads and we get a complementary breakfast. Just had a shower. First one since Fitness First, which was on, erm... *pauses to ask Luke* Wednesday. It's so nice to be clean! We will/ should be able to shower more once we get up the coast a bit and it's a little warmer. There are plenty of free showers along the beach in Melbourne, it's just a little too cold to brave them at the moment - Not even Luke has considered it!

We fixed up the camper good n' proper on Saturday. Replaced the broken legs under the fold out bed with new ones and bought heavy duty brackets to hold them in place. Bea's boss, the owner of a South American restaurant on St Kilda high street (Santa Ana), lent us his power tools for the job, which made life a bit easier. We went to the restaurant yesterday for lunch to say thank you for his generosity. The meal was fantastic and was served in tapas fashion, of which each dish was slightly above our budget and smaller than required so we savored our two tapas dishes and drank our two bottles of beer ($8 each), thanked him again and filled our selves with some of the fine (and large) cakes St Kilda has to offer.
We had, might I add, long boarded from the furthest East-Southerly point of St Kilda to Port Melbourne and then back via some random back-streets, which I think took us a good 3-4 hours, so STILL hungry after our tapas, beer and cake... we bought some bread and dips too. And chocolate.

Fingers crossed for tomorrow and that all that needed fixing gets done, we're off to socialise with our fellow Habitat HQ(ians?)...

PS - Luke has just reminded me, can't believe I nearly forgot! We saw mini penguins on St Kilda pier last night! They were so cute! No pics i'm afraid as it was dark and no flash photography is allowed but, I can assure you, they were ADORABLE.