Gary & Carolyn’s Epic Australian Adventure (part 5) The afternoon following the Australian Grand Prix, we embarked on a road trip from Melbourne to Sydney in an effort to see some of the country side. We could’ve done this in eight hours by taking the M1, but we decided to take the Princes Highway to […]
Gary & Carolyn’s Epic Australian Adventure (part 4) How could two race lovers visit their daughter and son-in-law in Melbourne while the Grand Prix season opener was happening and not attend? We decided to get grounds passes, rather than grand stand or marquee passes, because then we would have access to the entire track and […]
2014 was a big year for us. We moved across the world, made new friends, caught up with old friends, travelled a lot and got married. I challenged myself (and Ben) to think through the past 12 months, choose the highlights and find a photo to go with it. January We went to our first […]
…is the continent that you live on. I am blessed enough to have darling friends (and family who are friends) in both America and Australia who threw me a Bachelorette Party and a Hen’s Night. My Bachelorette Party, thrown in Minneapolis, was hosted by my sister Jackie and cousin Jessi. They rented rooms at the […]
To go with our awesome wedding, we received an awesome wedding gift from a very dear friend: A Scenic Flight for 2 over Melbourne. We took off from Essendon Fields and headed for Williamstown. After dropping from 1500 to 200 meters to view Williamstown, we flew over the beach toward Port Melbourne and Albert Park. […]
16 March 2014 Basically our first weekend in Melbourne Ben noted that he would like to attend the Australian Grand Prix, which opens the F1 racing season. He did a bit of research and decided early on that he would be getting a grounds pass and checking it out. In the weeks leading up to […]
I love art. In fact Ben took me on our first date to an art museum about 98 years ago. I probably knew then that we were 2 peas in a pod. I mean, he took me to an art museum. So when we started to see all this hype for an all night art […]
So…it’s been a while. I’ve been too busy doing awesome things and planning our wedding to write about the awesome things that we’ve been doing. For those of you getting your posts from Facebook, I’m sorry if I clutter it up with posts over the next couple of days, but I have to get caught […]
I work in retail where we always seem to forget about Chinese New Year, even though it comes every year. I work in retail where Chinese New Year is quite frustrating because it’s always longer at the factories and ports that we think it will be. I work in retail where Chinese New Year puts […]
Two weekends ago was Australia Day, so we decided to celebrate this fine country that we are temporarily living in by filling our weekend with festivities. On Saturday, we headed town to Geelong for the Festival of Sails, ensuring, of course, that we made it in time for the RAF Aerial Show. These guys were […]