Finally I had a great breakfast. It was so good to have a proper hotel breakfast so I went to town on a good vegetarian fry up. We spent most of the day wondering around town checking out all of the Christmas decorations. It’s pretty safe to say that Australians don’t really know how to do Christmas. Federation square had domes of polystyrene to make ‘snow’ but it was just quite pathetic.

The afternoon was spent doing some shopping and I managed to get my secret Santa present. My dad got himself a haircut so my mum and I treated ourselves to a manicure. It’s definitely nice to be spoilt a little bit after three years as a student and now travelling. Everything is always on a shoestring.

My parents were still jet lagged and he huge breakfast meant that we weren’t too hungry so we had a small meal in the hotel and then waited in anticipation for the boys and girls to arrive. I hid in the cupboard and waited. Everyone came in to have champagne and after a little while I jumped out of the cupboard and surprised Ed and Angie. Ed didn’t have too much of a reaction but Angie jumped out of her skin screaming which was a great reaction to make. We cracked open the champagne and started to catch up. Not before too long a knock at the door came and a very aggressive man told us to be quiet and that there should not be more than two people to a room. So reluctantly we moved the part downstairs.

Catching up was good and it was so nice to have the boys around. After polishing off three bottles of champagne we all went to sleep and I slept happily.