Hello again!..... :)

Oh my goodness where to start. What pics to choose.... ??

I took this pic as soon as we arrived at my sister's house in Sydney.

Clearly she got the hair up, wear a solid shirt, diamond necklace and cross body

purse memo:)

She had these amazing smelling gardenias in the bathroom that

I would be sharing with my mom.

Can't you just smell them??

She's the hostess with the mostest:)

Check out the view from my 3rd story bedroom window...

at the crack of dawn, on the first few days I was actually up at that crazy hour:)

I slept with the windows open my entire stay.

On the first morning, the one thing I noticed was the sound of the birds.

So many crazy sounding birds!

The kookaburra. You haven't lived until you've been woken up to the 

hilarious sounds of that one! Click here for a listen. I would wait every morning

for it to sing to me:)

 Everyone asks what we did for two weeks.

We did what all sisters do when they get together- duh!

We ate and laughed!

And ate and laughed!

And drank and really laughed!

And ate and laughed some more!

And loved every minute of it:)

I ate the yummiest peach tart more that a few times off this

adorable truck that was oh so conveniently located

just a short walk from my sister's 

house. 

Holy green grass and trees people.

This was at the botanical gardens next to the opera house:)

I've never been jealous of a bird before now.

This is Bondi Beach. The color of the water....heart eyes!

And yes, those were rain clouds:( that cut short our hike.

Beautiful nonetheless!

This is St. Mary's cathedral in Sydney Hyde Park. I sent this pic to Rio and

told her I found the place where she could have her wedding!! and that

that's the van we would be living in after we paid for it.

Not sure if she found that as hilarious as I did.

hee hee hee

The fish market we went to was insane. I've never seen so many

beautiful sea creatures in all my life.

Speaking of insane...

My brother in law whom I lovingly call BD can cook like no other.

I dream of this tuna tartar that he makes..

and by golly he made it for me:)

That other tartar in the background was a salmon tartar. Oh my goodness

my mouth is watering. Seriously delicious!!

 My sister and I are 17 months apart, me being the older one. Since I got married

a week after I turned 19, we realized we hadn't spent this much time together 

since we were in High School!!

So I took this special time together to teach her the finer things.

Like playing the Sims 4. We designed houses and people until our

eyes were bleeding every night.

Notice our twinning pinky's:)

Check out my favorite find.

Is he the most beautiful thing you've ever seen?

It's totally fine if you're getting the shivers because bugs freak you

out, I spent the first half of this post standing on my kitchen 

counter because my son's cat brought a rat into the house.

I get you.

But for me? This bug is going to proudly hang on

my wall as soon as I figure out how to get the stinky 

moth ball out of the frame:(

See that little white box in the lower right corner?

It STINKS! and since it's completely sealed all around

I'm not sure what to do? have it reframed?

Ugh....

Of course my favorite part of the entire trip was just the togetherness.

I loved it.

Two weeks went by so fast and before I knew it I was 

back in little ole Carp:)

But holy jet lag people!!

I was wanting to cook banana bread and clean

house at 2 am!!

Crazy, but worth every sleepless minute of it:)