Day One Thousand Three Hundred and Seventeen

Saturday 19th January

A quiet day for me at home. Kate and Carol went out to 'The Secret River' at the theatre which was very good by all accounts.

 

Day One Thousand Three Hundred and Sixteen

Friday 18th January

Sydney reached 45.8 degrees today, a record temperature in the city. It certainly felt hot, especially at lunchtime where sat outside for a Mexican lunch.

At least the air con in our office works well.

Caught a train home just before 5pm, missing all the problems with train breakdowns etc which seemed to start occurring later on.

Had a quiet night at home locked up in the air conditioning.

More info on the heat here...

http://www.smh.com.au/data-point/city-sizzles-in-record-heat-20130118-2cyrj.html

Day One Thousand Three Hundred and Fifteen

Thursday 17th January

Drove to the station today as its getting hot again this week. Did  a second interview with a candidate for one of our roles and then spent all afternoon working on maps. 

Headed home for dinner and bed.

Day One Thousand Three Hundred and Fourteen

Wednesday 16th January

A normal day at work. In the evening Kate and I met Caroline down at the harbour to go to the Open Air Cinema at Farm Cove overlooking the city and Botanic Gardens. Was very good fun, we got in and reserved our seats and then found a table in the restaurant area.

We then went to watch the movie and the screen elevated from horizontal to vertical just before the movie started.

We saw 'The Impossible' about the 2004 tsunami. A very good movie but very graphic in places, to extent people were leaving and someone fainted in the aisle at one point.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1649419/

Once it was over we walked up and met Bill who picked us up.

Day One Thousand Three Hundred and Thirteen

Tuesday 15th January

A normal day at work so not much to report today!

Day One Thousand Three Hundred and Twelve

Someone knocked the casing off the wing mirror on the car overnight, must have driven bloody close to the car. Thankfully no broken bits so its partially back on until I can borrow some star headed screwdrivers to tighten it all up.

Walked to work, it was quite windy and a bit chilly on the walk. Normal Monday work activities today and then Kate picked me up from station, before we headed home via petrol station.

Day One Thousand Three Hundred and Eleven

Sunday 13th January

Woke up at 9.30 feeling pretty rough after last night. At lunchtime we all went to Ian and Jess's house for lunch. Was very nice to see them and the kids. We came home at about 4.30 pm and had a very relaxing evening at home. We were both very tired so after Skype call went to bed at 9.45....we must be getting old!

Day One Thousand Three Hundred and Ten

Saturday 12th January

Welcome to the weekend. We did a bit of shopping today and then headed over to the Rose Hotel in Chippendale to help Pru celebrate her 30th birthday. We got there just after 7 and were turfed out of the pub at midnight. We kicked on to another bar until about 2am before calling it a night. We got a taxi home and ended up in bed at 3am. of

Some pics from the night below.

Day One Thousand Three Hundred and Nine

Friday 11th January

After work we had a relaxing evening at home, we spent some time moving our stuff back into our bedroom. First working week of the year done.

Day One Thousand Three Hundred and Eight

Thursday 10th January

A similar day to yesterday, normal work day and then chatting with Chris and Hannah before bed. They head back to Adelaide tomorrow so we said our goodbyes before going to bed.

Day One Thousand Three Hundred and Seven

Wednesday 9th January

A normal day at work and then we came home for dinner. Chris and Hannah were out with friends but came home later in the evening in time to have some Skype time with the UK. After this we all spent time chatting before going to bed.

Day One Thousand Three Hundred and Six

Tuesday 8th January

A normal day at work and then we got home to see Chris and Hannah who had been picked up earlier in the day by Bill and Carol. We caught up with all their news from thier holiday and then shared Christmas presents. We had a lovely pork belly dish prepared by Carol for dinner finished off with our Lemon Meringue Pie.

We crashed out at about 11pm and slept in the study on the sofa bed.

Day One Thousand Three Hundred and Five

Monday 7th January

Back to work with a bump. Walked to the station this morning and caught train into work. Pretty uneventful day at work and then caught train home and walked back to Willoughby. Another 5km walked today.

Came home and had dinner and then sorted out our room so Chris and Hannah can stay in it for next few nights. We then cooked a lemon meringue pie (well in fact 2 in the end as dish one was slightly smaller than planned. 

They seemed to turn out well....

Day One Thousand Three Hundred and Four

Sunday 6th January

This morning Kate, Carol and I did some shopping and had some lunch up at Chatswood Chase. After lunch I walked form home to Artarmon station and back (5km) to buy my weekly ticket to avoid queues tomorrow morning.

Skyped UK in the evening.

Day One Thousand Three Hundred and Three

Saturday 5th January

Lazy start to the weekend followed by some shopping up at Westfield. 

In the evening we went to the Macquarie Centre cinema to watch the life of Pi in 3D (in Gold Class), very good movie. Got home at about 12.30am.

Day One Thousand Three Hundred and Two

Friday 4th January

A lazy day around the house while Kate was at work. Last weekday holiday for me.

Day One Thousand Three Hundred and One

Thursday 3rd January

Very relaxed day at home for me while Kate was at work, spent a lot of time sorting out our room which had become a bit of a state with stuff piling up. 

Spent some time in the afternoon scanning some family photos for Kate.

We cooked a chicken and mushroom pie for dinner and I spent some time getting the blog up to date.

Day One Thousand Three Hundred

Wednesday 2nd January

Up early today as Kate went back to work today. After she had left I had a slow morning before heading to the Chase to do a bit of shopping. After battling around the supermarket headed home early afternoon.

Kate came home from work and we cooked a spag bol for dinner.

We booked some tickets for Cinema on Saturday too, Gold Class to see 'The Life of Pi'

In the evening we skyped the UK and Bill and Carol also talked to folks for a while. Had a cuppa and off to bed.

Day One Thousand Two Hundred and Ninety Nine

Tuesday 1st January 2013

Happy New Year people!

We struggled to get out of bed and once we finally did we headed down to breakfast in the hotel restaurant. It was pretty busy in there so we ended up on an outside table near the pool. Half way through brekkie we ended up inside as there was a swarm of flying insects getting everywhere...grim...

After brekkie we packed up and checked out. We drove the 2 hours home and thankfully there was no problem with the holiday traffic.

We got home in time for lunch and then had a relaxing afternoon and evening at home. wrapped up the day not too late as Kate is back to work tomorrow.

Day One Thousand Two Hundred and Ninety Eight

Monday December 31st

Goodbye 2012....

We had a very lazy day today, after brekkie we headed down to the pool, we went to the lagoon pool first but it was pretty soulless so we went to the main one with more people around. Unfortunately the hotel lacks any significant number of loungers around the pool or shade. We found a normal table and waited and then pounced on two sun loungers when an Irish family left. We dug in then for about 4 hours relaxing by the pool reading and listening to music. We had lunch and cocktails too.

At about 5 we headed back to the room to get ready for dinner tonight. A 6 course Degustation menu in the event room above the restaurant. Below is menu and picture of view we had from table.

The New Years Eve gathering was nice, a quiet affair with only 29 people eating dinner.

At midnight we saw in the new year.