Today I decided to be healthy. All the eating of cheese and pizza and the drinking of wine made me feel slightly guilty so I headed out towards the Melbourne Aquatic Centre. To do this from St. Kilda you have to walk across Albert Park which is massive and whilst you’re walking along you realise just how disgusting your UK lifestyle is. Melbourne is set-up for fitness freaks, everywhere you go it’s geared towards encouraging you to run, or sail, or workout by a lake or drop your kids off at football. Walking the 2.5km along the lake there are water fountains and those little exercise areas and every twenty feet some super fit, bronzed Adonis whips past you on their seventh lap of the park. I even saw mothers out with those three wheeled buggies in their sweats power walking their newborns in the sunshine. Madness.
Needless to say, by the time I got to the pool I was feeling like I should step-up my meagre attempts at fitness and get myself some kind of drill sergeant. It’s not just any pool either – this whole complex is huge. It’s got indoor courts and a badminton centre and then an Olympic pool inside, with a wave pool, Jacuzzi & steam room, an outdoor pool and a kid’s pool. As I am doing lengths here’s a girls diving competition going on with all these tanned, hyped-up teenagers bouncing off the 3 metre board and when they’re not in the water they are flinging themselves around on a trampoline practising tucks and rolls and flips.
Half an hour was enough. I got out – I negotiated with the locker computer to release my stuff and I was hot-footing it out of there to the nearest tram stop!
The evening was more my style with the first filmed episode of the cooking show. El has this brilliant palm camcorder and Leah and I had whipped a meal idea and El was filming and doing the starter. For anyone who doesn’t know, the cooking show is something that Leah I do when we cook together. One of us is ‘guest chef’ and the other is resident and we pick a social topic for discussion whilst we walk the audience through whatever we are preparing for the evening meal. Hopefully this will be airing soon and as our previous audiences have consisted of Tonic and Steve the public reaction will be interesting.
Tomorrow we’re off to the wildness of Philip Island for the third camping experience of my life. I’m excited.
There will be no updates for a few days due to our exotic location.
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