Sightseeing in Katoomba

It was a nice sleep in before waking up for a shower and breakfast. Looking outside the weather looked freezing cold and I shivered at the thought of going outside to sightsee today but I knew staying in this haunted house wasn’t going to do me any good.

We decided to go for a drive when we noticed that there was a lot of fog. The fog made it impossible to see anything. We turned a narrow corner to see two old people walking down a road with trees overlapping each other on the road with a lot of fog. Immediately we knew this was a great filming opportunity as the two old people looked totally freaky and the fog just had the final touch to it. So we quickly turned around and got the cameras out to do a scene.

Picture - A wall at Echo Point

ECHO POINT

Once we drove down the Blue Mountains drive we decided to rock up to Echo Point. It was still quite foggy here but we decided to do some hiking. We climbed down a whole heap of stairs when we spotted one of the sisters of the three sisters. It was sister "Berry", Unfortunately we couldn’t see the other two sisters due to the fog but we had a whole story line fitted around Cherry and her 3 sisters she froze.

We took enough photos of the first sister to try and satisfy our needs and then questioned whether or not to climb the remaining 700 steps. We actually thought about doing it in this freezing cold when we spotted some guy climbing back up after completing the entire trip. He was ready to throw himself on the ground and die from a stroke. Thank god this was a sign that we shouldn’t do it.

More importantly I don’t think me wearing an overcoat and hiking went well. Luckily we decided to head back up. We barely climbed 50 steps and we were ready to drop dead. Can you imagine if we did the entire 700 more? I think they would need to bring a helicopter to rescue us. This is when we started questioning whether I should of brang my asthma machine. I pointed out that my asthma machine doesn’t run on batteries when a whole car kit was added to it. It sounded like I was climbing 700 steps with a suitcase on my back. The thought sent shivers down my spine.

I barely caught my breath when we approached the top. We wandered over to see the 3 sisters but it was way too foggy to see anything. We did the next best thing – we went to the chocolate factory to warm up.

Picture - The Fog at Blue Mountains

Picture - More fog

CHOCOLATE FACTORY

Picture - The famous Chocolate Factory

We rocked up to the chocolate factory for me to only wait 20 minutes to be served. By that time I was ready to grab on the guys throat and demand hot chocolate. We spent a good half an hour resting here before deciding to head home to start the fire.

BACK AT THE HAUNTED HOUSE

We arrived back into the house and immediately some one started fussing over the fireplace and the fact we had to get it running before we freeze to death tonight. While the fire place fuss was happening we spotted a mouse running around like a lunatic. This was a great sign!

Once the fireplace started we knew that there was no way we were going out for dinner. So it was into the kitchen again to start our meal. Within an hour we had cooked up enough to feed half of Africa. I was in charged of making the salad and got pretty excited with the task. It was then that it hit me that I should do a cooking class as I enjoy cooking. I think I get this from my dad who’s a pastry chef himself.

Picture - The Fireplace under control

Dinner was served, the fire place was roaring and what better way to celebrate then crack open a bottle of wine. However things started to get out of control as we scrulled the wine down pretty quick before opened a bottle of Italian Champagne followed by more bottles of wine.

Picture - My AWESOME Salad

Picture - The Dinner we had that night

Before I knew it we were on the phone to Cherry screaming our lungs out. I don’t remember much of the conversation but were lucky that we actually taped the entire show. Now we spent the day watching seinfeld and Golden Girls.

The Seinfeld episode was the one where Elaine faked an orgasm. So obviously our first question to Cherry was whether or not she faked it. Cherry started screaming that she cant answer that question unless she’d drunk so we skipped to the next question, what would she say at our Eulogy. Before I knew what was happening a water fight broke out and we were wet head to toe while Cherry was on the phone screaming that we went on holidays without her. For the full coverage of this episode you may be able to download the footage at a later stage from the blog.

After the phone call I was dying to watch the England soccer match but 10 minutes before the game I started feeling sick. I don’t know if it was the alcohol and the screaming but I was lucky that most of it came back out. Nez you will be happy to know, yes I vomited. I ended up passing out 5 minutes before the game.

Apparently I only had to last another 9 minutes as Beckham scored in the first 4 minutes and that was the entire game!