Silverbay (again)

Friday afternoon at about 1pm, Sarah picked me up and we headed to Steph's house where our rental car was waiting for us. Kate (from New Zealand, who I met at the training school in Jan) joined us and the 4 of us headed off on a 4-5ish hour drive to the Adirondacks in upstate New York. We packed plenty of snacks and had a dozen C.Ds to keep us perky and dancing. We left Westchester at about 3pm and arrived at Silverbay at about 8.30, after having a few stops and hitting a bit of traffic. We signed ourselves in, picked our classes, and met up with the other group of Aussies (Alissa, Alice, Emma and Christina) who had picked up Nicolette on their way. Nicolette was a girl I flew over with who I haven't seen since the training school. Another girl I haven't seen since flying over with, was Georgie from Maine. Allysha from Boston was there too but I have seen her a couple of times since Jan.
Sarah & Steph shared a room with an adjoining door to Kate & my room. We were in a different building to everyone else, further away from the main classroom/dining area but with a slightly higher and nicer view of Lake George. After we unpacked our bags, Kate went to bed and the rest of us had a few drinks and played a couple of games. We had a late night, about 1 or 2am I think, and then of course, an early morning - breakfast at 8am.

First class of the day was Creative Story Telling where we got up and did a skit about Obama's extra long toenails (random...) followed by Unique Mind Games. I took that one last Silverbay but that was the only class left when I signed up. After lunch we had a 3 hour class and Sarah, Steph & I chose scrapbooking. It was so much fun we did lots of halloween and fall themed pages and I may or may not have snuck out a few blank scrapbooking pages for later use =) After class we had some free time so us 3 migrated back to our room and played starburst poker and had more then a few giggling fits!

Dinner followed free time then the famous Silverbay pantomime. They do the same pantomime everytime and get aupairs from the audience to play every part from the berry bushes to the table to the cat to the hero and villain. All the aussies got a part - Sarah was the cat, Christina dog, Alissa horse, Kate & Alice door, Allysha chair, Georgie table, Steph collected cards, me music director and Nicolette a bird. The same staff member, Schyler, reads the script everytime but this time the other staff members had changed it on him and put dirty scenarios and swear words and innuendo thru the script. It was really funny to see his reaction and hilarious seeing the aussies in the play. When that finished, aupairs took turns going to see a haunted house the staff had set up. While the aussies waited for there turn, we had some giggle sessions, taking crazy photos and running around like crazy as always!

When it was our turn to go through the haunted house we all picked "scared buddies" (mine was Christina) and boy, did the staff do an awesome job of scaring us!! They had doors banging, lights going on and off, pitch black corridors, people grabbing you and screaming and scaring you. I was laughing, crying and screaming the whole way through!

The halloween disco was right after the haunted house and about half of the aupairs dressed up the other half didn't. Alissa & Alice dressed as bees, Sarah was a witch, Steph pink evil fairy, Christina a pirate and I went as Strawberry Shortcake =) It was lots of fun dancing around in costume and interesting to see what everyone else dressed as.

We had an early night prepared for another early morning. I did an optical illusion and music class before lunch, then we packed up and hit the road again. We took our time heading back, taking a few stops and eventually arrived in Westchester around 6pm in time for dinner at The Cheesecake Factory.

It was such an awesome weekend, I loved seeing the fall foliage. I never could imagine a leaf could be so vibrantly yellow or that there were so many shades of red and orange. I had so much fun with Sarah and Steph and its sinking in that I will be leaving them and New York in 10 weeks and its a very sad thought.

(Aussie) Girls just wanna have fun

For the first time in a few months, all of the Aussie girls got together last Friday night. Alice and Alissa (from Lismore, who are leaving in Dec), Sarah & Steph (from central coast, steph is extending, Sarah leaves the country when I do), Emily, Jade, Christina (who all arrived together about 3 months ago) and Emma (who I flew over with).
We met at Alissa's and ate a naughty amount of junk food, played a few games, and chatted. Then Christina, Emily, Emma, Alice & I stayed the night, hitting our pillows at about 3.30am!
The next day we lounged around in our PJs having a relaxing day making friendship bracelets, watching youtube and gossiping.

Sunday we all (minus Sarah + Steph) went to the Palisades which is the 2nd biggest mall in America and about 20/30 minutes from my place. We went from shop to shop and I managed not to spend anything! Then we met Sarah & Steph at The Cheesecake Factory for dinner.

Was such a fun weekend, spending it with the girls. Silverbay this weekend, can't wait!

I like to Oot oot oot Apples...

Friday night Sarah, Steph and I attemped to go to movies but our movie wasn't on so we just hung around. On late Saturday afternoon Sarah and Steph picked me up, we did a bit of shopping then went to Sarah's place and ordered Chinese food and played some games.
Sunday was so awesomely fun!! Emily and her host family picked me up so we could go apple picking for the LCC Meeting. My host fam couldn't take me so I went with them. It was a great big farm and lots of aupairs and families were there, because all of Westchester aupairs/fams had been invited. We got some bags and these tall poles with bags on top of them to pick the apples. But in the end we didn't need them because there were alot of apples down low. It was so weird picking and eating an apple right from the tree! But they were so tasty! You were suppose to pay $20/bag but I just put a few in my handbag hehe. I bought hot apple cider and doughnuts from the bakery - so yum. They had lots of pies - apple, pumpkin, rhubarb, cherry, so many! I wanted to get one but they are so expensive and you could only buy the whole thing and not just one slice. Then I bought a pumpkin so I could make soup yum yum plus some yummy peanut brittle! Then after we got home, Emily and I took her car to go get Sarah & Steph. We went Halloween shopping and joking around. Then we picked up some Thai takeaway, took Sarah & Steph home and Em and I met Alice, Alissa & Christina at the river for a takeaway picnic. It was really beautiful we could see the views of the city and the Tappan Zee bridge. We then went back to watch some T.V at Alice's place and raided her closet because she is going home soon and has sooo much to get rid of!
It was an awesome weekend I had so much fun Apple Picking and its exciting getting into fall :)

2 Slow Weekends

The 2 weeks after Frannie left weren't filled with too much exciting news!
The first weekend was very rainy so we just lazed about town and didn't go into the city, going out for dinner, to the river and the likes.
The next weekend, on Saturday I went to the city with Christina and Emily and went to a flea market. It was so much fun! They are alot more expensive then Aussie second hand stuff, but I got a cute, cheap, mickey mouse headband and some vintage postcards. We had an awful lunch and headed back into Westchester late afternoon. That night I went to Steph's place so she could cook me and Sarah a delicious dinner! We hung out all night, and then on Sunday we milled around town shopping, out for dinner, at the river. Its been getting really cold and rainy lately too!