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I can’t sleep! I think my sleeping patterns are a little screwy :) I did not sleep a wink the night of the comp – I was wired. Besides, we didn’t get home until after 1am and then by the time we showered and scrubbed our tans off, and got to bed, it was 2.30am. I lay awake until 5am before deciding to get up and do something useful – so I uploaded all Di’s pics to my computer and started to resize them. Tonight I did all of our pics. So, on the Sunday morning, we said our goodbyes to everyone, and were on our way to the Yarra Valley. What a great spot this is, only an hour from the city. We stopped in at the Yarra Valley Dairy on the way to our accommodation, and had a cheese platter for lunch. Their Persian Fetta (with a double ‘t’!) is to die for, you were right Kerry. The Valley Guest House where we are staying is amazing. Our cottage is situated on the hillside, with king size bed overlooking the lush gardens. There is a running creek underneath, breakfast room, pool (not that I am going anywhere near that!), pottery studio, and lots of puppy dogs roaming around J The frogs at night are so loud! We then had a spa, with and drank some champers that Kerry kindly gave us. I finally had some sleep at about 3pm, for a couple of hours. I can’t believe I did not sleep for that long, after the exhausting day and night I’d had!

Last night we went to the Healesville Hotel for dinner – it’s been rated at 2006 Country Pub and Restaurant of the Year. It was an awesome meal – had a beautiful Chardy, I really want to buy some but I haven’t had any luck finding the winery yet! We shared dessert, and let me tell you, it was one of the best I have had. A pear and almond tart with crunchy buttery pastry, with homemade honey ice cream and almond praline. Just melt in the mouth. After a really good sleep, today I just bummed around and caught up on some email. Damien had to fly back to Mildura for the day. He was back by 4.30pm though, in time to hit Balgownie Estate for dinner. We shared a tasting plate, then I had a ratatouille and Persian Feta pie which was nice. We had dessert here too, a tiramisu, but it did not live up to expectations at all unfortunately.

So, have email chatted to Richie only briefly since the comp, but will be scheduling some phone time with him soon to map out the next few months and decide on what comps to do. I’m pretty fired up, I know I have the muscle and shape now, I just need to get leaner and harder. I will have tomorrow and Wednesday off, and will start a clean diet again on Thursday, as well as some light cardio. Will take the entire week off training. I am still sore from all the posing, and pumping up. Di was a hard taskmaster.

I have to say I am still on a high, that was the most fun I have had in awhile! Kimmy and Margie were a scream the whole time, we had so many laughs. The tanning sessions were quite stressful for Kimmy, but we got a lot of amusement out of it too! I can’t wait for the Nationals when we will all meet up again!

I don’t have internet here, used the hosts wireless network briefly today, but my email wouldn’t send. I probably won’t post this until I get back home.

I need to get writing my section of the e-book that I have been asked to contribute to, that is due at the end of the month. It shouldn’t take me too long, I have most of it already written into articles etc.

Tomorrow we are finally getting to go wine tasting! I have pre-booked lunch at the Streetwater Café at Chateau Yering. The menu sounded really good :) Already checked those things out, I couldn’t stop reading menus in the final weeks.

So, all the blood, sweat and tears are forgotten again, and I am all geed up to go again. I seriously considered that this was it, the last one, a few times towards the end. But as they say, it’s like having a baby – you forget the pain and go back for more :)

Thanks everyone for the comments! I plan to respond as soon as I get good net access!