Last Night in the Gong

Yes, however much I don't want that title to be true, it is. The past couple days have been lazy ones only filled with going out to do small errands that needed to be done, including getting my hair cut yesterday. 

Today we decided to put off our walk to the botanical gardens until tomorrow and to go say one final goodbye to our neighbors. We said we'd be over in the afternoon and went and snagged an apple pie (in true American fashion) at the grocery store for that. We have been trying to finish off all our last dregs of food, so we grabbed a bag of corn chips after we decided to turn a package of cheese slices and leftover salsa into queso too. Shortly after killing the bowl of queso and bag of chips, we went to hang out at City Beach for a bit, watching the surfers catching the waves. It wasn't long though until we had to reluctantly leave the beach in the nice sunny weather to slip the pie into the oven, making our whole apartment smell heavenly. We brought it over next door and spent the next couple hours socializing with Fatema and Rommie (Yahya was away at uni). They have been such great neighbors - they are always so nice and always inundate us with hospitality - it's sad we have to go and leave them. 

Unfortunately, when we returned to the apartment, we really needed to start packing, which is a daunting task. Somehow I seem to have accumulated way more than I thought I had. Being a traveling pack rat doesn't work too well. Thankfully we have most of tomorrow so there's no serious rush, but I am mostly packed already, minus some organization. We decided to go watch the New Zealand world cup game over a beer or two, so we headed to the Steelers Club after seeing the horrendously long line at Illawarra. We hung out a bit more, headed back to Illawarra eventually to use up some free credit Katie had on her member card, and here we are back at home. 

I've honestly been a bit depressed all night about leaving. It's hard to come to terms with the fact that this is really and truly our last night and I very well might never come back. But. I refuse to think about that just now, for now I'm just concentrating on the fact that we still have anther fairly full day here before we head out to Sydney. Goodnight Wollongong.