DARTH VADER....SPOTTED ALIVE!!??

Yes yes its true!! Reports have just come into the news desk at the big news at twelvty that Darth Vader is alive and well and living in....Lazarote??!! Always with the scoop, the Big News at Twelvty Team can exclusively reveal pictures of the Dark Master himself on a beach at the popular seaside resort, visited by millions each year. Said one holiday maker "He must be sweatin!!"

Melbourne!!!!

After a shaky start, I arrived in melbourne at 8am bagless...teh bags having been left in Beijing. i arrived back in Dublin yesterday at 9pm....bagless...bags having been left in Heathrow!! What are the chanes eh! man oh man...as annoyed and bleugh as that made me feel it didn't take away from a brilliant holiday!! Even managed to pop over and see Brian and jean in Welly...was with them for 6 day and went to 16bars. was in meblbourne for 3 weeks and was in 12 you do the maths.

Anyways I saw koalas and rock formations and Go!Team and a dog called marizpan and a rappin rodney LP and boutgh a lovely new scarf and a boomerang cos ya gots to. Actually me and peter and paul did a tour thing and went to an aborinal heritage centre and the 3 of us came out of there with boomerangs....DORKS!!

Anyways i have probably hundreds of photos so heres just a few. some have already been printed so most of these are from later in the holiday...can't believe I'm home...is it bed time yet?? its nice to sleep in an actual bed again i tells ya. Theres only so much floor and mattress i can take....

This is the view from the lads appartment...amazing!! Every hour on the hour massive flames would light up the river bank you can kinda see the start of on in the corner. You can see the crown too...the most fun place on earth outside of reno that is 

i did kareoke for the forst time otoo!! extreme kareoke according to the flyer...got one song in (my Sharona) before the ossie took over with renditions of barbie girl 

I was told that melbourne wasn't really a dancing kinda of city. i don't believe that. i have loads more of peeps dancing... the money shots are already printed...not to take away from these though. 2 seconds after this photo liz and peter were given out o for dacning on the couches hehehe 

...and some drunken singing... 

and more dancin... 

As i don't have any photos of me skiing (i'm a natural don't you know!!) I thought i'd stick one in of me skateboarding...i reckon i could be a natural at that too...is there anything i can't do. NOPE!! 

We went skiin...my stinky camera wouldn't work half the time and so i have no photos oh myself skiin...so heres one of lisa taken from the lift...those lifts are the hardest thing about skiin. Me and flynn had a most spectaular dismount the first time. WE high fived when we actually did it (dorks!!) 

They have pints of guinness as big as your head!! 

They have a lane named after Ac/DC!! must be the most photographed lane inthe world!! Me and lisa are in there somewhere when the cameras are out the ossie want in!! 

The lads lived across the road from the wonderland that is the Crown casino...on a monday there was half price pizza and on a tuesday 2 games of bowling for 9bucks washed down with 2.50 scooners. Butme and tara were far more interested in the dance machine...i kicked her ass by the way...didn't i tara!! 

Life through a fish bowl... 

Elvis isn't dead!!! he was reincarnated as a fish 

Brian and Jean kindly put me up in their lovely abode...i got my own little house(thing) and everything!! I wanted to do like an american gothis type photo but all we had was a mop 

Everyone was sooooo jealous of Brian's frantstic beard that we went so far as to all grow our own...even me and jean!! Brian looks worried that his is in threat of becoming passe...he needn't worry they're fake...i know they're seemless!! 

They told me there was absolutley no dancin in Wellington...so i had to make my own. We throwin shapes a plenty that night 

Meet Kiwi...kiwi is a cheeky chappy. He just kept popping up everywhere. There i was trying to take a lovely photo of brian and Jean but Kiwi just had to pop into the photo....DAMMIT KIWI!!! 

Took a tour (a tour yeah i know!!) along the Great ocean road or the ok ocean road as jean calls it and saw real live wild koalas and real live wild kangaroos and surfers and site of a ship wreck and went to the mullet capital of the world!!! no really we did!! although i didn't see any mullets :( 

We went up in a helicopter too....doesn't this look like a picture from a georaphy book!!?? This is the 12 apostles...even thought theres 14 of them...can you spot the seahorse? 

Ok Ok i know that most of these photos were taken on the same day...some even within a few minutes....but its still funny. He has picked a photo face in an attempt not to look "stupid" (his words not mine) and in his defence he picked on and went with it...a lot 

Got a chane to se those 'spooners play not once but twice on my trip. They're going down quite well down under...they even have a sign now! 

Everyone was so sad to see me go!! well can you blame them really. but all good things must come to an end...Bye bye frances we'll miss you 

Bye bye australia...bye bye new zealand! Off i go on a plane by myself again...boy I sure wish they don't lose my bags again.....DOH!!!