OK, so I've been a little slack since coming home from Europe.
OK a LOT slack! ;-)
But being reinserted into the Matrix with full memory of what it was like on the outside was a pretty depressing time. Even now as I remember our time in Paris I still get a tear in the eye and wish we were back there now...
On the up side, I'm back with my friends & family! Yay to that! :-)
Just after we returned from Europe we took a little trip up to Sydney to visit some very close friends we had not seen for about a year, Alan & Philip. As a surprise I had only organised with Alan that we were coming up and that Philip was not to know. When we arrived we were at their place out on the balcony overlooking the bay. When Philip came home we hid on the balcony and gave him quit the surprise.
The trip also happened to coincide with "the Wooksta's" (my hubby) birthday, so we took him out to a great Mediterranean restaurant called "Bel Mondo" which is located on the Rocks, looking out at the big "coat hanger" bridge. The food, company, view and evening was fabulous and a great time was had by all, even if the Wooksta did get another year older.
At the end of Feb we held a bit of a welcome home party in the form of a good old fashioned high tech slide night! We booked out the "good room" upstairs of our local cafe Seddon Deadly Sins, set up a projector screen and music on the ipod with food and drinks for all. A very fun night was had by all and it was great to catch up with people, especially some that I have not see in almost two years!! :-)
March and April we've been a little flat out with work and trying to catch up with some of our friends on the weekends, but I'm too sure how much we have accomplished. I did get to do a bit more of my photograph over the past few months which has been really good. I've really developed a love of photography since Europe. It's something I loved to do n high school but never got the chance to do it as an adult. You can check out my shots here... www.flickr.com/photos/escapethematrix/
I have signed up for a couple of online courses, photography and photoshop, which start in the next week. I'm very excited. :)
May is the month of our wedding anniversary (May 7th), and this year we thought we might head back up to Sydney to catch up with some friends and spend some time together away from the house. It was a really nice weekend, despite a couple of set backs and a hotel that was sub par and not at all what it claimed to be advertising on the net. We did get to the Sydney Aquarium which was a great way to spend morning. They have a "touch pool" where you can do as the name might suggest... touch stuff; like star-fish and baby sharks which have a surprisingly rough skin. They also have a seal enclosure who are just the cutest things.
We also went for a walk through the Chinese Garden of Friendship which is right next to Darling Harbour and where we were staying. These are the most beautiful gardens, and like a true "happy snappy" as Wooksta likes to call me, I took lots of photos. There is nowhere in the gardens that you can see the complete layout, it's designed so that you need to walk through it to see what it has to offer. There is also a small lake in the centre of the gardens which is full of huge cod and eels which look very cool.
For the night of our anniversary I took Wooksta to "Cafe Sydney", situated on the top floor of the Customs House in Circular Quay. This place is superb. The food, service, atmosphere, decor (yeah I'm gay), oh and the view is pretty special too. Looking directly out over the harbour, with the Bridge to your left and the Opera House to your right and ships & ferries all lit up moving in and out of the harbour. The food here was so good that I physically felt ill after we left because I had eaten so much! If you want somewhere special to eat in Sydney, then check this place out.
Well that pretty much brings us up to date with everything so.... I will leave it there for now and chat to you all later!
"Let the mind be enlarged to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind." - Francis Bacon
