Australia: Part Four

More pictures from Australia :)

That's the corner of where we stayed. We were right by the Botanical Gardens where they had the Anzac Day celebrations (I wasn't going to wake up for the 6am gathering so you're just going to have to imagine it...), and that's basically like Australia's version of Memorial Day.

One morning the hubs went for a run around The Tan and kind of lost his way, so his half hour run became an hour and a half hehehe Silly goose.

How awesome are those glasses??? Want!

Chapel Street is another one of my favourite parts of Melbourne. We went to many second hand shops and I wanted to bring sooooo many things home! Beautiful mid-century furniture, bits of decor... heaven! My cousin ended up buying a small child's chair that she's going to attempt to restore. Parts of Chapel Street are kind of posh, and she kept muttering, "Great... I'm going to be walking down Chapel Street carrying a bloody chair..." Hehehe!

Also, those eye things are creepy as hell. So creepy that it's awesome.

Mrs Parma's.

Chicken Parmigiana.

If you're in Melbourne, those two things have to happen. Capisce? Don't even argue. Just do it.

St. Ali Coffee Roasters for brekkie... beautiful food, yummy coffee. Hilarious decor. 

Really hilarious decor. They've hung paintings from an artist and I kept laughing at how the lightbulb happened to censor the artist's self-portrait lol!

Australia: Part Three

Hah! The sisters three! It's very rare for us to all be together (well okay, not suuuuuper rare, but rare for us!) so we always insist on taking pictures together whenever we can. Love my girls :)

Yup. We take one normal picture... followed by ten idiotic ones. Well, more than ten... but yeah... Mum is so proud. 

Ahhhh Melbourne :) We walked around Brunswick Street in Fitzroy almost all day because that's one of our favourite areas. It's all grungy with interesting little shops, and the graffiti art everywhere is mind-blowing. SO amazing.

The hubs was so gleeful in the first record shop we found that I had to pretend to be David Attenborough, finding a music lover in the wild. We're not for everyone...

DO YOU SEE ALL THOSE SEWING MACHINES?!?! Ahhhh it hurt so much to have to leave them all behind! There was this cute little hand cranked toy one at another shop that I so wanted, but it was too much money. Bah.

Love Brunswick Street. Definitely go when you visit Melbourne :)

Randomness

Oh hi, remember me? I had a blog that I used to update regularly. I suck. I'm sorry. 

I've been so busy lately with loads of stuff, but thankfully some of that stuff now includes sewing! We settled back to our routine after returning from our trip (it's amazing how three weeks away will erase how you do every day things!) and there's been so much running around as well. It doesn't seem to be slowing down, but if there's sewing thrown in there, who am I to complain, right?

On Wednesday afternoon we took a little ride to Boston to see my favourite band, Vampire Weekend :) They're always amazing live, and so much fun. I danced and bopped the entire time, and because I'd been listening to their new album on repeat, I sang along to everything... my throat was so hoarse! We got home around 1am, and both of us had to work the next morning so that was just a treat haha! We're catching them again in September... can't wait!!!

Some actual randomness...

- My melissa + Liberty of London shoes! I got them in Singapore and I just looooove them. I also got a pair of melissa + Jason Wu ones in Australia. I seriously would've bought more but I exercised what little self-control I have.

- My MIL had balloons waiting for us when we got home hehe She's so silly! Love her!

- So the picture of the two guys... We were on the T in Boston and Seated Guy had his legs spread when the train filled up in a flash. Standing guy decided to stand riiiiight between Seated Guy's legs, so the latter had to protect his man junk the entire time. The hubs and I kept giggling at this hilarity and eventually snapped this photo because we needed to remember this for always.

- And an irritating bird took a giant shit on our front door. Nice. Reminds me of the pelican shit we used to find on our balcony in Australia. Fun times.

And what's one of these posts without food!

- I've been eating a lot of avocados lately... They're yummy and cheap at Costco!

- We had chicken tenders at Raising Cane's before the Vampire Weekend gig because there was nothing else. It was pretty good... not a fan of fried foods, so yeah...

- The ridiculous gelato at the wedding we attended on Saturday. I wanted to breathe it all in. I ate a few bites and ate the chocolate strawberry then ignored it while it tried to make eyes at me. Evil, evil gelato.


I've got more pictures of Australia coming... and of course stuff I've been sewing!

Australia: Part Two

We took a little drive to Swan Valley... the food there is wonderful, but mostly I wanted to show the hubs the vineyards while there were grapes on there. He's only ever visited during the winter months, so everything looked so dead and grey. 

My family is incapable of taking pictures without making faces. You'll see. Also, the hubs looks to be questioning his decision to be part of my family.

Holy ham hock, Batman!

We visited a vineyard after to walk around and have some coffee and desserts. And hopscotch.

The chocolate factory is seriously ridiculous. Whenever I walk in, I want to grab everything and go nuts. Some of the yummiest chocolate I've ever had.

And their hot chocolate will make you forget your own name momentarily. It's so simple... their chocolate + hot milk. Stir, and try not to spill too much of it.

We checked out a little restaurant in Nedlands with beautiful food and even more beautiful views. I missed seeing all those boats bobbing around, and jellyfish in the water. Silly little jellyfish. 

We ate so much and often while we were there... I'm so not used to eating out that much, so by the first week, I'd kind of hit my limit hehe But the food is amazing... both the old favourites and the new places my sisters have found since I left years ago.

More pictures to come!

Australia: Part One

Oh Australia, how I'd missed you. I hadn't been back since I left in 2007 and I almost forgot just how beautiful is it. The people, the food, the sky... oh the sky... the sky is amazing and wonderful. Most of all, I missed my family. My cousins had kids while I was gone and I finally got to meet them. I have to admit that it made me quite clucky. The hubs is thrilled at this, of course hehe 

One of our favourite places for seafood is Cicerello's in Fremantle, and a bunch of us met up to share some food and catch up.

SO. GOOD.

This is Dylan, my cousin's little boy. He's insanely adorable and giggles at EVERYTHING. I want to steal him and his mum seems to be quite okay with it hehe

My dad and Dylan are firm friends... they walk hand in hand all the time :) Made me even more clucky!

That sky. Seriously, best sky ever. And not just because I'm biased :)

There's many more pictures to come. You have been warned.