Sydney Part 1 - On yer bike!

The day before we flew to Sydney I was looking for things to do and found a 4 hour cycling tour. It had great reviews so I booked us in knowing Iain would love it. It was perfect cycling weather, sunny but cool and we had a great time seeing the sites of Sydney (me for the 1st time). We pretty much saw all of the major attractions in a short period of time so when we finished we compiled a list of the things we wanted to go back and see for longer.

I would highly recommend this if anyone is going to Sydney.

Iain with his bike Bindi (mine was called Swan, not so exciting)

Look one handed!!

Public Art??

Ambiwerra

One of the private schools in Brisbane has a school fate with a difference, it is a jazz, fine wine and food festival which takes place in early August. A number of top restaurants have stalls on a Sunday afternoon and you eat a feast of amazing food with lovely Australian wine. The weather had been a bit poor but on the day the sun came out and made the event even more of a success. See you next year.



Bec and Neil were caught out by the surprisingly good weather

A few more pics from NZ

The awesome foursome!

The gang!

As the Collies headed over to New Zealand to spend the weekend with the lovely Harvey-Fays, little did they know how much was involved.... a full day of travelling, but of course it was well worth it.

We had a fantastic weekend catching up as we haven't been together for more than a year. The boys went on a hike whilst the girls went wedding dress shopping and plenty of coffee, cake, BBQ shapes, burger rings and of course alcohol was consumed.

We will be back

Visitors from afar

Danny and lore popped in to Bris-vegas on their world tour. I had the day off and drove down to meet them at their friend Tash's place. We walked into the valley and had breakfast at Fat Boys (a staple for us Valley Boys and Girls following a big night out at Rics watching Resin Dogs.... are you completely confused ???) I took them on a little tour of the "mountains" surrounding Brissy. It was a very foggy day and as you can see, very limited visibility, but warm warm warm.

We had a nice little bushwalk and lunch at a biker's cafe up in the hills, watching wild birds and enjoying the serenity.... ah... the serenity

Sian and Tash joined us for drinks afterwards at a cool bar and then down to the river for fish and chips, pizza and steak sandwiches. Good luck with the rest of your travels D & L !!

To see their past and future travels, check out their blog...

www.mytb.org/Danny-and-Lore

The city is out there... somewhere

Bushwalk

A beautiful view of moreton bay and hinterland... well, when the clouds aren't in...

Cheers!

Cake

Cupcakes rule ...

State Of Origin Game 2

In true Queenslander spirit, after a demoralising defeat in Game 1, we bounced back to destroy the Blues 30 - 0 in an awesome game of blood, sweat and tears.

Me and King Wally

Shane with Beer

The walk of honour, our champs.

Game 3 is this wednesday, I'm already celebrating a big win