Monday, November 15, 2010

Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb


Hello. This weekend was BEAUTIFUL! Friday went home after work however and was asleep in bed by 10 pm. The week wore me out! I got up at about 7 am on Saturday morning to a BEAUTIFUL day. I decided that I would go down to the beach for the coastal walk on the beach near my apartment. This time I brought my camera along. It is crazy that I got down the the beach expecting it to be nearly dead at that time of the morning and it was packed as if it was 1 in the afternoon. Guess no one else wanted to waste a minute of the beautiful Saturday either. I met up with April around 11 am and we went into the city and took the fairy out to Manly Beach-- one of the northern beaches that I had not been to in a long time then off to China town markets for me to find a new/larger suitcase. Saturday night while April, Courtney, and I were out we received a text from Silvia our other roomate stating that we had a spider in our kitchen so she shut the door and left it so please don't open the door when we get in. Well, we all kind of laughed it off saying she should have just killed it. Sure enough we get home and think it is a good idea to open the door to look for the spider. Well we found him. He was hanging out in the top of the kitchen wall. We named him Freddie-- our new pet. We now saw why Silvia was freaking out... Freddie is about the size of my hand. By this point we were totally regretting not cleaning the kitchen before we went out Saturday night because we said we had all day Sunday.. however now Freddie was holding the kitchen hostage. We finally warmed up to the idea of going in there when he was in there as long as someone kept an eye on him. Sunday during the day was a packing day. We had to move out of the house by 7 am Monday morning so I helped April move all of her stuff across town then she helped me. It was another beautiful day and probably the last time I will live by the beach so I went down to the beach for about 45 minutes. I poked my head in the kitchen to say bye to Freddie before I left then off to the beach. When I returned the kitchen door was open... Everyone had been going in and out of the kitchen to get their stuff out and the door does not shut well. I looked in however this time Freddie was not in his normal location. Not a very comforting thought! Luckily after a couple hours of freaking out thinking he was crawling on us he was located still in the kitchen. April and I had the Harbour Bridge climb so we didn't get to witness the killing of Freddie.. however I heard it was quite entertaining as he was a speedy little fellow and a hockey stick was used by Jujuai to kill him. So off I went with April to do the Harbour Bridge Climb. She got a gift certificate for work and I had been wanting to go therefore I tagged along. We went for the dusk climb. Started out at 6 and lasted 3 1/2 hours. There were 13 people in our climb. We started out going around as we were getting suited up saying where we were from from and what we were doing here. Two ladys in their upper 60s were from Atlanta, Georgia and Miami, Florida. When I said I was from Mississippi the lady from Georgia asked where-- she was from Laurel and graduated with a few people that we know very well. Talk about a small world! We could not have asked for a more beautiful night!!! The weather was perfect temperature and our guide was great. That is all for now!!











Monday, November 8, 2010

Hello! It was brought to my attention how bad my blog has been slacking. This is mostly because I honestly have been SO BUSY. I am trying to think over the last several weeks--- Had my birthday where I went to Opera House bar with my roomates then out. It was fun; however, just was not the same knowing that everyone else was together in Oxford for the Auburn game. After my birthday was November 2nd and Melbourne Cup Day. This is "the race that stops the nation." And they aren't kidding when they use this term... even schools gather in a central area and stop teaching to watch the race. I decided since it would be my only Melbourne cup that I should place a bet; therefore I put a small place bet on "Maluckyday" and "Americain" to represent our country. Sure enough these 2 won first and 2nd place!!! I was very excited about this. Nearly all offices shut down after the race and I met my co workers around the corner at a small pub to watch the rest of the races. Lets see----- this brings us up to November 3rd which was my other roomates birthday. We had a small party at our house for Silvia with her classmates. She is my roomate from Slovokia that is here studying English. Lets see.... this weekend took surfing lessons. Yes this is WAYYYYY harder than it looks. And if you see in the pictures that it looks like I am struggling with a wave about 1/2 foot tall that is because I was. I will say for my defense though the pictures were taken in my first 30 minutes before it came a storm. By the end of the 2 hour lesson I had improved some!!! Sunday we went to the Harbour for the Red Bull Flutag event. Not sure who knows what this is or not. It is basically when people build a flying object of some sort and fly it off of a ramp into the water. Its pretty funny to watch! Last night we went to a stand up comedy show and dinner in the city. Very very funny guy!!!! So just a quick note catching up on what I have been up to... besides this stuff I have been working 9-5 every day so between all of this is why I have not had a chance to write!!!