My Bags are Packed... Again

This feels a little strange... I'm all packed and ready to head for home, and there are still four days left before I fly away from Australia for good. We had to do a little house rearrangement today - Jen Challenger moved out of her room and in to my half of the room I've been sharing with Jen since October. Of course this meant that I had to give up my space, and pack my bags. So now we officially have a "Jen squared" room. Ha ha! My stuff is all piled on "my" Jen's side of the room and things are now a little squishy, so I'm sitting out in the common room with my laptop to write this. I no longer have my own desk, either. :-) But that's OK, 'cause I'll be heading for home soon, and I'm so ready to go!

Last night I went to my last Aussie trampolining class. My goal for the evening was to land a full airplane, a relatively simple trick that's eluded me for almost two years. I just can't quite twist the right way to be able to nail it. I almost got there last night though - I landed one or two but not consistently. I am hoping that when I get back to my club in Canada, with trampolines that are level with the ground, I'll be a little less scared of the height I'm bouncing and be able to land the stupid trick. Mark decreed that we should celebrate my leaving, so Jen bought a lamington cake on her way to meet up with me at the trampolining club. She, Mark, Pete, Jake and I all shared the cake at the end of the evening. MMM. Cake.

This morning I woke up very, very sore from last night's bouncing. I didn't really want to face the prospect of rolling over in bed, and put that moment off for as long as I humanly could. The hot shower that Jen made me take helped, though. My back really doesn't like all the twisting I do when I'm trampolining.

What with me being so stiff and all, it took me longer than I thought it would to finish my packing, and I didn't get to leave the house until almost 2pm. After all the nit-pickyness of packing (remembering I've only got one of my big bags with me here right now, the other's already up in Sydney, so getting all my remaining stuff to fit in my red pack was a bit of a challenge), I really needed some fresh air. I headed downtown and back to the Melbourne Museum. I first visited it back in February with Jen's mom, and we ran out of time to go through all the galleries. Today I explored the deep sea exhibit, went back for a closer look at the bug exhibit (go figure), and wandered through a display on how the mind works. I went back to the Virtual Room and watched a few more of their cool 3D movies, although they were having problems with the lighting and the overhead lights kept flickering on, which was annoying.

After I'd finished exploring in the museum, I wandered over to Lygon Street to meet up with Jen and Tarra for dinner. I'm having my big goodbye bash on Saturday but unfortunately Tarra can't come, so we celebrated tonight instead. We ate yummy pasta and bruschetta at one restaurant, then wandered across the street to enjoy Tim Tam cake. MMMMM. More cake. :-)

So yeah. I'm ready to come home, and I have a little bit of time to kill before my flights. Or I guess a better way to put it would be that I have a few more days in which to enjoy my time here to the max. And I'm planning on it!