Sydney highlights

This week we flew to Sydney primarily to support a friend who had entered a jewellry competition. 

We had a great time and watched 'The Lion King' and saw some sights.  I went to Lady Gaga's concert.

Queen Victoria building

Lady Gaga

Luna Park

Sydney Harbour Bridge with the Opera House.

Food, so much food.

Only a little bit of shopping.

Went really high in some lovely outfits with our faux children.

Hung out with some famous people.

Plans - Xmas holidays edition

This is the official first day of my holidays.

 Work plan:

I went into work though at 10am and worked until 3pm without lunch - just munching on whatever I had. My aim was to get my senior English unit planning done, which I did!!!

This term I'm going to trial a paperless unit, which means everything has to be digital and accessible for my students on their tablets. I'm excited because I've always liked the idea, but because we didn't have student laptop or tablets we had to book into the computer room, blah! So anyway, it's all done - 'handouts', 'worksheets', assessment tasks, lesson plans ready to go.

 I would like to get a head start on the next unit for this group of kids so I won't have to worry about them until half way through the year, but I do have to work on my other classes before that. So anyway, my first week of the holidays will involve me going into work and planning for the rest of my classes.  

House plan:

 Before I head off to work I want to get a bit of house work done.
 - downstairs declutter
 - Christmas decorations
- my office desk
- dining table declutter
- wardrobe sort
- jewellery draws
- pantry sort
- sewing room - OMG what a mess!

 In the afternoons I want to get some cleaning done.
 - washing clothes
- folding clothes
- clean down all doors
- air-cons
- the usual stuff really  

Sewing plan:

 I want nice easy sewing this holidays, mostly.

- Scout woven tee from Grainline
- Suzy pant from Tessuti Fabrics
- Mandy boat tee from Tessuti Fabrics
- Tania culottes from Megan Neilson
- green skirt from my own pattern
- skinny tee from my own pattern
- maybe the Washi dress by Made by Rae

Day out to Fig Hole

Townsville?

Made it to Townsville. Met up with some friends from home, Bec and daughter, Aug, and CassCass and daughter, Chirstyn.

We had awesome burgers and ate gelato at Juliet's and walked down to the beach.

Today is all about cinema.

Forest to Ocean

I started on the Tablelands this morning, travelled on the Skyrail and ended on the esplanade of Cairns.

It's so sad to leave my Mum and Dad but it was so nice to stay with them and relax.

My brother, C and I just pigged out on pizza and watched Arrietty. It didn't end the way I wanted but they rarely do - curse you Studio Ghibli. But of course now I want to build borrower's home.

Movies and mahjong

Earlier this week we went and watched 'The Hobbit'. It was a great movie If you like Tolkien. I've read it twice, once in primary school and again while I was at uni. Still not sure if I like the story but I love the ideas.

Today we spent doing some shopping chores, visited a couple of op shops and stocked up on craft stuff and clothes.

I'll share some of my op shop finds next week when I do an Aussie Curves post.

Tonight I'm crocheting and blogging while I watch the others play mahjong. It's my brother's automated table - it shuffles and sets up the round for you and pops up the tile from hidden doors - science and black magic I tell you.

Rainforest

Nothing is as nice and calming as walking through a rainforest.

We went to see The Crater which is a 68m drop down to the water and much much deeper.

Edit: because blogger has put a verification thing on my posts I can't update from my phone app and if I go to blogger and post I can't access my photos from my phone. So no photos for you!!!

Edit x 2: got some photos now!

Chillin'

Another lazy day today. We went to Atherton and did some shopping - I bought stationery!!! This included my new diary for 2013 and two label makers, it was buy one get one free,

We also headed up to Hallorans Hill, which was were we got married - awhhh! The view was lovely.

Also have been enjoying sitting on the veranda crocheting and chatting.

While we waited for our kebabs to BBQ, we were looking into the night sky for the International Space Station.

Last leg of the day trip

We went to Watsonville and Irvinbank and got ourselves a flat.