Friday I drove from Adelaide to Melbourne via Bendigo to avoid at least some of the extra traffic the Adelaide Crows fans (and a couple of Richmond Tigers fans from SA) were causing. Long, slow, and uneventful. Would have stopped to take a picture of the Welcome to Victoria sign, but there were too many Crows fans either taking pictures or adding to the stickers and scarves that were starting to cover it (almost like they knew they wouldn't be needed later!)
It wasn't this sign, which I found through google image search, but it was similar but with a big crow over the 'i' in Victoria
Saturday I was recovering from the drive, along with suffering from a belly ache and nausea (only vomited once...) thanks to (most likely) the stuffed potato cake (I missed the name of it, but 2 thin slices of potato, with cheese, ham and mashed potato between them, then battered and deep fried), or possibly the bag of lollies. My friend I'm staying with and I watched the AFL Grand Final from the comfort of home. Was a decent game, but would have been better if I didn't feel awful.
Sunday I drove out to Ballarat to catch up with a friend from High School that I became friends with again nearly 20 years later. It was a nice day seeing how their house renovations have been going, eating lunch at their favourite cafe (Knife, Fork, Spoon), and taking the greyhound for a walk down at the lake. It was however a day with quite a bit of driving and I wasn't 100% after the stomach complaints of Saturday.
Vietnamese Chicken Salad. Pretty good and just what my stomach ordered. Needed less bean shoots, and more chilli
First Image Source: Ben Thomas' Twitter Post
