I'm back from Melbourne after competing in the NABBA Australian Championships.

What a busy 3 days it was. Friday after a 2 and a half hour flight from Brisbane to Melbourne, I was met by the lovely Melita Jagic who had a warm smile and a tasty meal of bbq chicken breast and pasta waiting for me. She kindly drove me to my accommodations where I quickly unpacked and later went grocery shopping for my meals over the next 3 days.

The next day, Saturday, Melita and her partner Matt picked me up and drove me to a location for a photo shoot with Gary Phillips. This was my first real photo shoot and Gary was great in directing me, as the time went on I relaxed more. We all had a few laughs, it was fun. I was later dropped back at my accommodation to relax and decide what I was going to devour for my pre contest load. Yes some of you know already, it was goumet pizza and cheesecake again. I was stuffed half way through it, so left it aside knowing full well in a couple of hours I'd be hungry again and could finish it all off through the night.

Sunday was the day of competition. I was up early giving myself plent of time to get ready, have breakfast (no, the pizza and cheesecake didn't survive the night). By 11am I was set and awaited Melita and Matt. At the venue I couldn't have asked for a better support crew, Melita and Matt were fabulous, they knew when to be there and when to give me room. Melita even did a crossant run for me, how nice is that, I made short work of them too, I was starving. I wasn't to be on stage till late in the afternoon, so spent alot of time resting, chatting with familiar faces, meeting new ones and watching parts of the show. During this time my right hip and knee became very tight making walking rather difficult. I think being dehydrated for so long contributed to this. Luckily my physio was there and we made arrangments for the next day to fix things up, he has magic hands.

I placed 2nd, I was lean and very dry. I thought I had it, but the judges saw different. That's ok, I now know I am good enough to be up there with the countries best. Plans are being made right now, to get me to the international stage next year. I'm going to get there, because I have friends who believe in me and now I believe I can do it too.

Many tanks to Melita and Matt for looking after me so well while in Melbourne.

Huge thankyou to Di Shipway www.figuregirl.com once again for bring out some amazing things in me.

Thankou to Glen Putell for your advice as always

Thankyou to Paul and Janet, great friends and landlords

Gerdy, thankyou, your efforts helped me so much. You're always going to be greatly appreciated xo