East to West, North to South!

Ahh...what a relaxing third week of annual leave!

Spent Monday and Tuesday sleeping in and seriously catching up on my tv watching! Finally up to date with Desperate Housewives, Heroes, Prison Break and 24! Still behind on Grey's Anatomy and haven't started watching the current season of Lost. So much tv, so little time...*sigh*

On Wednesday, Di and I spent the day over at her brother's place out west. We enjoyed Janani's Indian for lunch at their Wentworthville shop and then went back to her bro's place to play Settlers of Catan! Di's sister in law is quite into board games! That night we had a combined bible study social at Jimmy's place! The guys cooked up a storm on the barbie and it was great just hanging out!

On Thursday, Di and I headed south for a daytrip to the southern highlands! We arrived in Mittagong around 11:30am and checked out some nice lookouts. Then we enjoyed a hearty meal at the Bowral RSL club before heading to Fitzroy Falls. Unfortunately heavy rain and even hail stopped us from doing the walk to the falls but we enjoyed vivid rainbows on the scenic drive. We reached the small charming country town of Berrima late arvo and checked out the Little Hand stirred Jam shop there! We bought a couple of nice sauces and then found a cafe nearby for some coffee! As night fell, we decided to head back towards Sydney, taking advantage of late night shopping at Liverpool Westfield! Fully sick day mate! =P

On Friday we were going to visit Sydney aquarium but Di's free tickets to Taronga Zoo arrived in the mail so we decided to go there instead. We had lunch at Ginger and Spice, a Malaysian/Singaporean place in Neutral Bay before heading on down to the zoo to talk and walk with the animals! We really enjoyed the seal and bird shows with Sydney Harbour as a picture postcard backdrop! Then we had a chat with all manner of creatures including lazy kodiak bears, playful chimpanzees, sleepy lions, towering giraffes, and my favourite - lumbering giant tortoises! That evening I saw Fantastic 4 with some med friends - definitely better than the first one! Spent Friday night over at Di's parents' place in Mt Kuringgai and yum cha at Hornsby the following day to celebrate Di's sister in law's birthday.

And there ended a wonderful week off!