Sydney Day 1

Sydney Day 1

holy cow – syndey is amazing. But lets start with our flight. We left la verne after spending an awesome week with the fam. My mom and 2 sisters pretty much made it so hard to leave that I found myself hugginh my dog saying goodbye with tears in my eyes... like i'm never returning home??? talk about dramatic kelsey. But they were just so amazing to colin and I – cooking us so many awesome dinners, running a million errands for us, taking work and school off just to hang in the4 back yard with the crazy animals, and throwing a little early 30^th birthday party for me – I know... WE ARE SO SPOILED! But we finally dragged ourselves to the airport, and after a tearful goodbye... we all smiles and excitement. We boarded our cushy business class seats on the the 2^nd floor (thank you airline miles) – cheersed eachother with our champagne, tunred off our phones for good and began this crazy adventure. I expected a bit more nerves – but I felt nothing but happiness. We snuggled down in our seats feeling grateful and enjoyed an awesome flight jam packed with movies, ice cream sundaes, some sort of delicious port, and then a sweet little bed that let us sleep peacefully. We promised to enjoy this flight since all the rest are budget airlines – hello jobless Murphys. When we got to Sydney we sailed through customs, walked outside refreshed and awake at 7am ready to conquear the town. Our cab driver was awesome... he told us to stop saying “sir”, and tha they only say “mate” in austrailia (stupid americans) and then overcharged us 50 dollars for our cab ride – thanks man!! That being said – we were so in love with the scenery and weather that we didnt even care. We were dropped off at Bondi Beach... not near it... on that sucker and then we looked to our right and there was the apartment we would be staying in for the next 10 days. Talk about location. We're lucky enough to friends with some pretty amazing people – and one of our favorites, Schwalbzilla, met a great guy while traveling a few years ago named Rob. Rob and his girlffriend Sarah graciously offered to host us, and boy do they know how to host. Sarah greeted us in the morning with Tim-Tams and Victoria Bitters, showed us the view of the ocean we would be looking at for the next week, and showed us to our awesome room with a balcony off the back. WHAT???? She is awesome and lovely and left us after heading to work both with kisses on the cheek (dont be surprised when colin and I head back kissing all you americans). We then threw on workout clothes and did the Bondi to Coogee walk. I dont think anyone that gave us advie on Synedy didn't say DO THE BONDI TO COOGEE WALK – ITS AWESOME!! So we did it – and it was. It's pretty much the most amazing views of oceans, and quaint towns, reefs, coves, and aussies playing volleyball, rugby, and running like “manimals” as col calls them. Needless to say – we sat at a coffee shop on the way back in awe of this place and talked about moving here. Yes... we know – we've only been here for 6 hours... we're getting a bit ahead of ourselves. I think we are a little jetlagged and hyped up on coffee – but gosh the last 24 hours have just been the best. I'm sure we will crash soon – and fight trying to stay up till 7pm tonight – but so far we think EVERYONE should move here and we will all live on the beach together. We've heard we caught one of the best days of weather so if we are rained in for the next few days and we say – yeaaaaaa, about that moving here thing... dont judge us. We're just really really EXCITED and CAFFINATED right now. :) Oh and p.s. Mom – dont worry we're really not going to move here – but we might be making this our next family vacation place.

Location #1 – amazeballs. Gratefull level is through the roof. 2 happy, happy clams.

Pics below are:

 -Business class, WOOOOOO

 -Shot of Sarah and Robin's view out of their living room to Bondi Beach

 -Shot of Bronte beach and baths