Darkschunt 
Monday, April 04, 2005
Our Last Day!
We set our alarms to nine but it took a few hits of the snooze buttons (for all three of us) before I finally emerged from the covers and dragged SweetRhapsody and the Duchess out as well. After breakfast, we checked out, saying goodbye to our lovely backpackers inn with the showers that go from boiling hot to freezing cold every few minutes (the inn we'll miss, the showers we won't). Our first stop was the fudge factory where we sampled some fudge pieces and bought some as well, then we went looking for caves! At breakfast the German girl, Francesca, had told me about a cave which cost only ten bucks to explore but she couldn't remember the name. Unfortunately we couldn't find that cave so we settled for exploring Mammoth Cave by ourselves. The Duchess didn't want to go so we left her in the car looking through the window after us like a lost child being left behind while SweetRhapsody braved her fear of darkness to go cave-exploring with me, the sweet darling (she also gets extra applause because she was a little frightened after having a dream about being bitten by a snake the night before. FYI, no snakes were bitten in the cave). We paid the 16 dollar entrance fee to a nice woman who gave us audio sets full of voices which spoke too much and then we entered the cave! It was gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!! It was huge and amazing and there were stalactites and stalagmites everywhere and it was totally beautiful. We were a little afraid when we first entered because we were the only ones there and it was so dark and SweetRhapsody was clinging so tightly to my arm but it was truly gorgeous as well. I wanted to take pictures but I didn't dare to because it was so amazing. I didn't feel I should take any pictures there. But the moment we got out we took pics of the front and the back of the cave and of ourselves by a huge tree and on top of a huge log!
Next we went to Cape Lavender where we rolled around on the grass and took pictures of ducks and ourselves by the lavender, the water and a couple of willowy trees and sniffed in all that lavender. I wish we could come back in October or something where apparently that's when the lavender is in full bloom. There were lots of little old ladies enjoying the grounds and having tea and we sampled lavender wine and port and the nice guy who served us the wine helped me pick out a pot of lavender for my sister.
Cape Lavender was our last stop and we left the place after that. It was a little sad leaving so fast but we had a great time driving back and singing to practically every song on SweetRhapsody's mp3 disc until our throats were way hoarse! And we stopped to wash the country road dust off the car at a gas station where this very nice cute car wash boy helped us out. And we also tailed a cute but arrogant-ish guy in his car on the freeway!
Anyway, we finally got back to Perth, dropped the lavender pot off at my sister's, picked up Laurine's darling up from his house before dropping the two of them plus all our stuff at EUH, and finally, the Duchess and I took the car back to the city to drop it off at the car rental. But BEFORE we even got to the city, we took TWO wrong turns! The first happened because I was supposed to direct the Duchess through the roads - but I started fumbling around in my bag to grab my camera to snap a gorgeous pic of the sun setting over the river and looked up just in time to see her speeding down the wrong road. The second was caused by a misleading signboard, pah. But we finally got the car back safe and sound, took a bus home, sang like maniacs through the campus, and tore into Flat 11 like hurricanes!
And there endeth our trip and I'm exhausted, so goodnight!
*Blows the candle out*
We set our alarms to nine but it took a few hits of the snooze buttons (for all three of us) before I finally emerged from the covers and dragged SweetRhapsody and the Duchess out as well. After breakfast, we checked out, saying goodbye to our lovely backpackers inn with the showers that go from boiling hot to freezing cold every few minutes (the inn we'll miss, the showers we won't). Our first stop was the fudge factory where we sampled some fudge pieces and bought some as well, then we went looking for caves! At breakfast the German girl, Francesca, had told me about a cave which cost only ten bucks to explore but she couldn't remember the name. Unfortunately we couldn't find that cave so we settled for exploring Mammoth Cave by ourselves. The Duchess didn't want to go so we left her in the car looking through the window after us like a lost child being left behind while SweetRhapsody braved her fear of darkness to go cave-exploring with me, the sweet darling (she also gets extra applause because she was a little frightened after having a dream about being bitten by a snake the night before. FYI, no snakes were bitten in the cave). We paid the 16 dollar entrance fee to a nice woman who gave us audio sets full of voices which spoke too much and then we entered the cave! It was gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!! It was huge and amazing and there were stalactites and stalagmites everywhere and it was totally beautiful. We were a little afraid when we first entered because we were the only ones there and it was so dark and SweetRhapsody was clinging so tightly to my arm but it was truly gorgeous as well. I wanted to take pictures but I didn't dare to because it was so amazing. I didn't feel I should take any pictures there. But the moment we got out we took pics of the front and the back of the cave and of ourselves by a huge tree and on top of a huge log!
Next we went to Cape Lavender where we rolled around on the grass and took pictures of ducks and ourselves by the lavender, the water and a couple of willowy trees and sniffed in all that lavender. I wish we could come back in October or something where apparently that's when the lavender is in full bloom. There were lots of little old ladies enjoying the grounds and having tea and we sampled lavender wine and port and the nice guy who served us the wine helped me pick out a pot of lavender for my sister.
Cape Lavender was our last stop and we left the place after that. It was a little sad leaving so fast but we had a great time driving back and singing to practically every song on SweetRhapsody's mp3 disc until our throats were way hoarse! And we stopped to wash the country road dust off the car at a gas station where this very nice cute car wash boy helped us out. And we also tailed a cute but arrogant-ish guy in his car on the freeway!
Anyway, we finally got back to Perth, dropped the lavender pot off at my sister's, picked up Laurine's darling up from his house before dropping the two of them plus all our stuff at EUH, and finally, the Duchess and I took the car back to the city to drop it off at the car rental. But BEFORE we even got to the city, we took TWO wrong turns! The first happened because I was supposed to direct the Duchess through the roads - but I started fumbling around in my bag to grab my camera to snap a gorgeous pic of the sun setting over the river and looked up just in time to see her speeding down the wrong road. The second was caused by a misleading signboard, pah. But we finally got the car back safe and sound, took a bus home, sang like maniacs through the campus, and tore into Flat 11 like hurricanes!
And there endeth our trip and I'm exhausted, so goodnight!
*Blows the candle out*
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