I Saw Koalas...

Meagan and I played pool and sang karaoke at Strike with a few friends from work and then bought our CommonWealth Tickets (Track and Field... women's polevault!) on Friday night before we hit the sheets in prep for our big day to Mornington Pennisula and Phillip Island with our flatmates...
Let me just say that our big day started off on a bad note! Meg's alarm clock didn't go off on Saturday morning so we woke up to Liann (our flatmate) banging on our door yelling "20 minutes, get up!" ... we jump up and race to get ready meanwhile everyone is milling about in the living room yelling "4 minutes!!" I come out of the room ready to go and the apartment is empty! I realize that our flatmates had left us! I ran down to the bottom floor and caught them just within voice reach ... walking to the rental car place to leave! They were so set on leaving at 7:30 to pick up the car even though it wasn't even going to be ready until 8am that they left at 7:29 and left us in the apartment because they "thought we weren't coming!" I was so angry because we had split all the costs with them and we had the tickets! What? Why wouldn't we go?
Needless to say, Meagan and I weren't happy at all and when we finally got in the car, we sat in the rental car outside our apartment and waited for 40 minutes while they figured out how to get to our destination!! Meagan and I are not fans of "hurry up and wait" but after an hour or so we were over the drama and trip was fun.
Mornington Peninsula was just over an hour drive away. We stopped at restaurant where we bought a couple of lattes and then strolled down by the waters edge and played in the sand. The walk was beautiful because the water was a million different shades of blue and there were little boats anchored all over the place.
A few detours later, we arrived at Phillip Island and grabbed a map from the tourist info spot. This is where I almost accidently stole a stuffed penguin that squeaked... oops! Meagan and I, the two who didn't pack a day's worth of food, ate at a Gourmet Fish and Chips shop called White Sands (grilled salmon and handcut chips!). Our first stop was at the Koala Reserve Park.... I took so many pictures of these adorable koalas sleeping in Eucalyptus trees! There were over 20 in the park and we saw about 16 of them hidden away. We even caught a film of a little one moving around just 4 feet in front of us!