Sydney During my stay in Sydney I stayed in a motel suite in Kings Cross which was lovely, except it was right across from a construction site and the jack hammers and bull dozers started at 6.10am and were still going at 5.00pm. This was all the excuse I needed to rise and shine early and wander into the city centre each of the days during my 3...

Work felt a little better, Fridays are dead. Found out about NIU. Went out to eat for Dillion's last day at waggamammas. Came home around 3 - spent the night with the girls watching pride & predjudice! Others in gold coast.

So we don't have internet still, and it wouldn't be a big deal but I really wanted to talk to dad on his birthday (although his b-day was technically the 14th, if I called at 8 am it was 3 pm back home the day before). I headed off to work then knowing that by the time I got home it would be around 11 even if my internet did work. I started work...

I woke up early in the morning to get to the airport on time, but still almost managed to miss my flight. The line at the airport was much longer (and much slower) than I had expected, so I was feeling the time crunch when I got up to the check-in counter. I had a mini panic attack when the man at the counter informed me that I wouldn't be allow...

5-2 Bats and Opera House Ok, so the bus ride to Sydney was not that cool. We got on at 8:00pm and watched Miss Congeniality 2 followed by a stop at the dodgiest (Australian for sketchy (Michigan word for creepy)) place for dinner/midnight snack. It seemed like a place out of a bad horror flick. So I obviously tried their mystery meat steak burge...

Now am writing to you from Sydney! Arrived yesterday after my nice 11hr flight. No, it really was nice, Qantas are great...we had so many movies I didn't go to sleep and got square eyes, and they kept coming round with c******nay, ice cream, loads of food and hot chocolate. was ace. I had a nice window seat so got a good view coming in, and we a...

Today I'm back to work after my nice long five-day weekend. That's longer than a normal work week for me...life is rough for me, isn't it? As you can see I've finally caught up to updating my journal for the past week or so. I will also go back and post all of the pictures from this past week sometime tonight. I finally got the bridge climb pict...

The End of an Era And now on to Sydney, for New Year's Eve and the final test in the Ashes series. Sydney itself remains one of my favourite cities in the world - it's laid back life and the geography of the harbour give it a wonderful mix. Some of the views, as iconic and recognisable as they are, still don't fail to take the breath away - I en...

Today we decided to do something productive before we headed down to the beach. All 14 of us attempted to find Quantas Airlines to plan our flights for spring break. Well after walking around downtown Sydney for an hour, we finally found the building, well the old building. We finally found the new building and went inside to find a huge long li...

Today was my second day at work. I had a couple little projects to do. This time I brought a book to read and read that for awhile. I'm really going to be happy when everyone else comes back to the office next week. John gave me a list of things I might be working on and told me that two different people are going on vacations in the next few we...