Hi everyone, first of all I’m sorry that we have lapsed dreadfully in our blog keeping, would love to say it’s because we have been living the high life and partying til all hours but its not! Mostly we have just been working which seems a little too boring to write about. There have been some highlights from the last couple of weeks though so I will try to describe them now without rambling on too much.
Firstly, one of us marked the end of another decade of one’s life by turning the big 3 0! I had sort of prepared myself for quite a low key affair since we were on the other side of the world from all the people we know. I was therefore thrilled and very pleasantly surprised by all the cards, presents and birthday messages that I received. Thank you all so much for thinking of me way down here – I was definitely spoiled. I had to work on the day of my birthday but that was ok, the children I was working made it fun, especially when they presented me with a yummy chocolate cake at the end of the day! Then in the evening their parents, Denise and Brandon, took us both out for a lovely meal in a very posh Italian restaurant in the Leichhart area. It was a lovely evening, which included lots of good food (the nutella pizza being the best bit!), good wine, a very talented opera style singer and a red rose. Altogether, with the possible exception of the pink & green teddy pig, it was a very sophisticated evening. If this is what being old is all about I can definitely handle it! AND the best bit is yet to come, for my birthday present Si is taking me to very posh 5 star hotel in the blue mountains for the weekend – woohoo I can’t wait.
As for the weekend, our day of fun was spent in the Sydney Aquarium, full of all sorts of ugly fish, scary non-man eating sharks, and this odd duck-beaver thing called a platypus ;-). Seems to be we are making a habit of spending Sunday with aquatic animals! (Maybe it’s so when we leave I can say so long, and thanks for all the fish!)
We are settling in quite nicely to the living in Sydney lark, even getting into a sort of routine of meeting up after work (sort of a requirement as there’s only one set of keys! And the flat is so horrible that it is best to spend as little time there as possible!), and eating out a lot too – even getting favourite restaurants (kebab shop actually!). Well, we are on holiday really!