Sydney

What a difference a week makes.....this week I'm schlepin' waffles out for whiny kids - last week I was sleeping in - in my lovely hotel room.

Here I am in Sydney Australia - note I've chosen not to post so many pictures with me in them, I've gained 15 lbs since my cycling accident - but am ready to start walking regularly and try to work out again at the gym - hooray!

I found Chinatown

I went on a Ferry Tour by myself - so I had to have some Japanese tourist take my picture. Out in the bay it started to rain really hard. But I still had fun.



Harbor Bridge & Opera House - just playing with my camera

These views are from my hotel room - it was gorgeous!!


Bondi Beach with my man - the only real "hot" day we were there.....

Like my new friends?? They had a huge Sculptures by the Sea thing going on - guess they do it every year so it was beautiful to walk along the coastline

Here we are at Bondi - eating Asian Tapas - we had to sit on cusions to eat, cute idea - not all that comfortable
One day I also took a tour of the Opera House - it is amazing - it actually has 7 different theaters - they can have 7 different events going on inside and accommodate a couple more outside! So I saw the Symphony one night - the Sydney Orchestra was playing Rachmaninov ........

My first day there - just off the plane

The Sydney Tower


So this is the pictorial story of my trip. I did a lot of touring - no shopping though - almost all of their stuff is imported - from China or the US so it was like shopping here, or rather Beverly Hills!!! Everything was Gucci, D&G, Ferragamo, etc and very very expensive - so I did a lot of window shopping.

We survived our extra day in Sydney because of our cancelled flight - there was a problem with the throttle - glad they figured that out BEFORE we took off and not after!

Well just wanted to give the update - the weekend was crazy. Our family sang "Love is Spoken Here" during the Primary Program - we are not the VonTrapps by any means, but when they asked me I knew we should do it because this would be the only time the kids would let us!! Mike practiced for a couple weeks - Ian sang the loudest so we put him in front. But it is a great memory for me.

Sat was all about sports and yesterday was our big Holiday HFPE & craft night - I was exhausted but we had about 45 women come - which is HUGE for our ward - I was really happy, unfortunately my friend Kim & I were left to clean up and we didn't leave until 10:30 - oh well - Hope everyone is well, I have a lot of blogs to catch up on!!!