Ricks B-day

Hey folks!! This is a rarity yes I am actually posting, don't get to excited. As you have might known I have recently had a birthday it was my 28th getting old but I won't count that until I see some gray hair start to appear... not that getting older is a bad thing... Okay back to my big night. It all started with dinner with some good friends at a restaurant in Newtown called Splash which has great food... I actually tried peppered squid, not bad. During dinner of course the wine was flowing which I seemed to REALLY enjoy.. For dinner I had there steak... a personal favorite of mine... After dinner Jen had surprised me with a strawberry and chocolate ice-cream cake... that was SOOO GOOD!!!!!!!! I think we all enjoyed that. After cake we all received a complementary shoot of Port and for the special occasion a bottle of champagne...well after a lot of wine that the free stuff seemed to go down no problem. Then it was off to the local bar to meet more friends, but this time I was feeling pretty good. Well I wish I could tell ya more of what happened but unfortunately a lot of what happen at the bar became a blur.. Guess the pictures can tell the story. I just thank Jen and Rach for the great night.!!!

Easter Weekend Adventures :)

Hey beautiful people :)

How the heck are you? We are well, as the weather cools off and it's officially 'Autumn'....say Fall and the Aussies will have no clue what you're talking about, we are remembering the need for our space heaters...but also recalling the drastic hikes in electircity bills at this time of year! So for now, sweaters/jumpers will do ;)
An aside first, it's game 1 of the NHL playoffs and guess what, I actually found a way to watch the game online!!! http://www.sopcast.com/ then choose channel 'NHL3' for those who are also in non-NHL fan countries :P..of course, there is still the issue of live games being our midday so we can only watch a very select few...next step may be recording! (it's 3rd OT right now, GO CANUCKS GO)
So our Easter weekend was full of firsts: Saturday we went on our first Lawn Bowling experience. It's just like Bochi (sp) Ball but the catch is the balls are weighted unevenly! So, you actually have to put quite an arch in your 'toss' so that the ball eventually curves back into line with the 'Jack' ball at the other end. Still the same concept of getting it closest to the Jack ball to win :) Here are some pics of the event. It was a bbq/beer/bowling night that friends from uni invited us to :)
Sunday morning we had our little chocolate binge and then headed off to try another Anglican church. We have tried 3 different ones now, still think we may have to cave and venture into the city to find a 'happenin' place to worship :)...with good music!! Lovely people though :)
Monday we went on a guided tour of the Blue Mountains!! It was a package deal that Rick booked for us to do: we had to be in the city by 7am, and left on the bus to arrive about 9am at the mtns. Our first stop was to see the kangaroos in the wild! That was pretty cool, we've seen them in the zoo but never in the wild, they were so tame, you can see how close Rick was able to get to them :) Btw, sorry about the terrible layout of thses photos, they're all over the place cause I don't get along with this program lol
Then, we headed on a hike to Echo Point and that we some sweet scenery..so different than home though, no evergreens here! I tried to take a pic of some of the foiliage.
We are provided lunch: their staple foods of bread rolls with ham/cheese/veg and muesli bars :) it did the trick :P
After lunch, we got a bunch of free time to explore around the area and see what we wanted to, we chose to go see the Three Sisters which are 3 mtns standing very close together and they were so beautiful! But mtns at home are bigger of course hehe We were told a tonne of aboriginal stories behind the names and features of all we saw, but I can't remember them all, if anything, I remember parts, like not recalling the punch line of a joke...I'm hopeless lol
Our day ended with a trip on the steepest train in the world! We walked down 1000 steps and then took this train back up, boy was it steep! Overall, a great weekend and a muchly needed get away from uni/work/city life.
THe best part is when Rach and Jen arrive in only 2 more weeks (!!!!!) we're renting a car and heading back up there to check out stuff we missed and explore around some more! Can't wait!
What is everyone else up to these days as weather warms up!!



yes, Butterfinger was worth every bit of the $4.00!
very steep cliff side
it was sooo bright!!! i'm not just a complete dork :P
the steepest railway warnings!
hmm...mom's day presents?!?!

that's better
very primitive construction of the railway lol
steep steps
nap time with the koala
Three Sisters in the background (Rick with the ladies :)

alright, i'm the leader of this operation....or not!
amazing views, set up like niagara falls viewing
very unique flora
just chillin

three sisters

cool waterfall
i like the shadows in this one
just kidding...
what a poser
who me, I didn't do it!!!

our 'limo' for the day ...which I think is responsible for my sickness now!! dumb air con
Always good to have the first pics last lol
kangaroos!

Easter Sunday!




Lawn bowling!

beer?!




Peace be with you :)

Rick's jobsite at the Train station

Hey all you bloggers and blog readers :)

It has been noted that we have readers in Europe and Africa now! Wow! Welcome to all, leave us a comment so we know who you are...I'm strongly considering South Africa for my intermship in dentistry.

Recently, Rick and I decided to upgrade from our oh-so-basic but worked-like-a-charm cell phones but weren't sure if it was possible. Sometimes being classified as 'international' really bites! Anywho, a connection saved us in that we met our neighbour downstairs who also used to be international and he happens to know A LOT of people...we've since come to realize...so, he was able to put us in touch with a friend of his who works for 3GT mobiles...and he arranged it so we could buy 2 new phones and get on a PLAN, finally! See, typically, we're not allowed to go on conctracts because internationals are 'unreliable and may not pay their bills'...right. I'm getting to the point, really. Rick has been picture happy with his new phone and so I thought it would be sweet to show you what he gets up to each day, since you already know what I do...he's currently doing the copper piping for gases at a new train station to be opened in MacQuerie. Check out his eye for fine detail and artistic ability ;)

OK, since this blog and I are not getting along...the first pictures are of us at a housewarming party a Canadian classmate had this past weekend...great friends, great time :)

Sorry about the orientation of this last pic, once again, tech issues...proly not the computer, just me lol Also I noticed the shots are rather dark, could be a combo of the underground nature of the site as well as the quality of the camer phone hehe ...you decide...we'll take a poll!! ;)

Hope all are well, let us know if you stop by...it's motivation to update this thing if people actually read it.