tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80903659404736915052024-02-22T11:16:44.362-05:00American CorrespondentThe adventures of an Australian family in American southern culture where the vowels are long and the food is deep fried.Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02429033451094376720noreply@blogger.comBlogger886125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090365940473691505.post-48187807183725214002013-10-01T17:02:00.000-04:002013-10-01T17:31:34.823-04:00Summer living 2013<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Today is the first day of October and summer is over. It's autumn now - the leaves are falling, the mornings are crisp and jeans are back in the laundry circulation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We didn't do a grand trip this year however we did do lots of fun things and some weekend trips within North Carolina. Here's our summer in brief:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lucy and Fiona went to Disney World and Legoland for the weekend to celebrate her 7th birthday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Henry spent 2 weeks at UNCW swimming lessons. He also spent a week at Kim's Gym doing soccer and bike riding.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Auntie Julie and cousins Edward and Cordelia visited us for 10 days. We went strawberry picking a couple of times, visited the battleship and aquarium and played lots of board games.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We visited Asheboro Zoo (about 3.5 long hours away!) We had a great time and hope to go back soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We spent the fourth of July at the Lake Waccamaw celebrations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Henry turned 4 and celebrated with a monster truck party. Andrew built a super duper 'carwash' sprinkler for the kids and constructed a mud pit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Camped in the backyard several times as well as having lots of opportunities for a fire pit and toasting marshmallows or making smores. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We also played lego a little. Just a little.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Attended lots of playdates at the pool, at the park, at the farm and at the fire station</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We went bike riding, played in the back yard and grew our own tomatoes (over 1,000 so far)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We spent time with Robin including having a tea party! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We made jam! Strawberry jam, strawberry syrup and frozen whole strawberries. Then blueberry butter. Tomato jam (divine!) Then from 90lbs peaches we made peach jam, peach butter, peach passion butter. Then Cara Cara orange marmalade. Now that it's fall we are planning on apple butter, apple sauce and apple jelly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We ate ice cream. Lots of ice cream. At home. At Boombalattis. At the beach. Bucket loads.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We visited Carolina Beach State Park to see Venus Fly traps in their natural habitat. We bought a plant on the way home and then watched it catch a fly!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He was very distressed and shouted out "I need to brush my teeth! I don't want plastic teeth!" After that statement how could we not let him brush his teeth! Obviously all the stories about Grandad's false teeth had been remembered.</span>Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02429033451094376720noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090365940473691505.post-47830625601737179832013-01-30T10:11:00.001-05:002013-01-30T10:11:32.847-05:00Hello!<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It's January 30 and I still haven't posted all the wonderful videos of our Christmas lights! In fact some of the lights are still up on the house as Andrew hasn't had a chance to take them down (he had to build storage shelves first!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We have had some unusually warm weather (75/25 degree days) and some unusually cold days too (27/-2 degree days). What a roller coaster but it has been amazing to go to the beach a few times with the kids even braving the water. They loved getting out on the sand and running and running. But even better was a spa bath afterwards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We've been to Raleigh and back, enjoying some good gluten free Lebanese food along the way as well as visiting the lego store. Lego is the new craze in our house and the dining room has been retitled 'the lego room'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lucy is reading chapter books voraciously and sometimes she doesn't speak to us for hours. I am loving this bookworm business. Henry celebrated his half birthday and now "all the chidlers are the same age!" ie all halves</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There is lots of planning going on - for birthdays, vacations, and other projects. So while there doesn't look like much is going on there is a lot of thinking happening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We just celebrated Australia Day with lamingtons, lamb, ANZAC biscuits, pavlova and vegemite. Now we are up for making valentines (42 of them between Henry and Lucy) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thank you to the Martins and both grandparents for all the Australia Day goodies. We had a fabulous time eating all the passionfruit. (Well not all, we have saved some for my birthday!)</span>Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02429033451094376720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090365940473691505.post-3365922700580731712012-12-21T13:49:00.004-05:002012-12-21T13:52:50.115-05:00Break ins<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There have been a number of car break ins in our street this week! Fortunately the thieves are not actually breaking in but just getting into unlocked cars and stealing what they can find (including guns!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My neighbour caught both thieves at 4am because he has a motion sensor that sets off a silent alarm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Check out the news article <a href="http://www.wect.com/story/20366986/chiropractor-holds-down-suspect-with-his-thumb">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It's getting scary around here. Our house is even shown in the newsclip!</span>Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02429033451094376720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090365940473691505.post-90882658332279922782012-12-12T10:47:00.003-05:002012-12-12T10:49:45.392-05:00Hark! 2012<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It's a mad creative wonderland around here at the moment in preparation for hosting our first ever Christmas party. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We've called it <b>Hark! 2012 </b>because our lighting show is themed around the Christmas carol Hark the Herald Angels Sing. It's an outdoor party to view our musical & lights extravaganza and then enjoy some hot chocolate and treats in the backyard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As of today we have 78 people signed up to attend and about half of these are kids!</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Check back later for more updates.</span>Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02429033451094376720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090365940473691505.post-61293812572501772312012-12-04T13:00:00.000-05:002012-12-04T13:34:10.536-05:00Christmas Tree 2012<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We picked up our tree from Hugh McRae park again this year. Felicity kept running around in the maze of trees and laughing when we couldn't find her. [Do you like the Christmas tree shirt i made her? Lucy wouldn't wear hers]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We had fun decorating the tree with Lucy taking charge of things and doing a good job! Both Felicity and Henry loved climbing the ladder even when Dad wasn't looking.</span><br />
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<br />Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02429033451094376720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090365940473691505.post-15597521850860795402012-12-03T09:00:00.000-05:002012-12-03T09:00:08.974-05:00Bike riding<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Over the summer we bought Lucy and Henry new bicycles because they had outgrown their old ones. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Henry has great balance and was not good at peddling. So he has been sitting in the burley with Felicity instead of riding his super cool neon orange Tony Hawk bike. But a week or two ago he gave it a go and went on a really long bike ride to Anchors Bend and back. </span><br />
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<br />Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02429033451094376720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090365940473691505.post-87033808643207468322012-11-30T09:00:00.000-05:002012-11-30T09:07:16.576-05:00Thanksgiving 2012<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This year we attended Thanksgiving at Nathan & Elisabetta's home. We had the traditional turkey, sweet potato mash, and green bean casserole but the Italian twist came with the dessert - panna cotta. A couple of the little ones were crying for no real reason but once they had a panna cotta or two everyone was happy again!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Felicity had a thanksgiving play at preschool the day before where she dressed up as a grey squirrel but she didn't shake her bushy tail! Henry had fun visiting his old preschool.<b><br /></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And just for my records here is where we've enjoyed thanksgiving in years past.<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2012 Cook family (Boiling Spring Lakes)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2011 Holmes family (Hampstead)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2010 Tilly family (Rocky Point)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2009 Marlene's (Carolina Beach)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2008 Martin family (next door neighbours)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2007 Westra family (Hampstead)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2006 Monetta family (Wilmington)</span>Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02429033451094376720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090365940473691505.post-62363726555691304852012-11-29T09:00:00.000-05:002012-11-29T09:00:06.336-05:00County Fair<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Henry loved the monster trucks, Lucy loved the jungle gym (she went on 6 continuous times) and Felicity loved the fun slide (she kept running from the end back to the entrance and screaming until she was let in again by the attendant!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We visited the animal tent which was judged smelly by Lucy and then Henry declared he didn't like horses. But he did like the mega sized tractors.</span></div>
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<br />Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02429033451094376720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090365940473691505.post-40845552764467932042012-11-28T09:30:00.000-05:002012-11-28T10:11:51.212-05:00Lucy's half birthday<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lucy's cake was several days in the making. She chose a White Gold Passion Genoise from Rose's Heavenly Cakes book. It included the genoise cake, passionfruit syrup, passionfruit curd and deluxe white chocolate buttercream icing (which firstly required a custard to be made). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It tasted as good as it sounds and that passionfruit curd was truly delightful. [We cracked open one of the tins of passionfruit we bought in Australia as part of this celebration. Please Australian friends send more tins!]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course we decorated the house with pink and purple crepe paper streamers per Lucy's request. </span><br />
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<br />Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02429033451094376720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090365940473691505.post-16445949448192256182012-11-27T09:00:00.000-05:002012-11-27T09:00:16.075-05:00Andrew's half birthday<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Andrew enjoyed a veal schnitzel dinner for his half birthday followed by half a chocolate cake served with mint chocolate chip ice cream. Apart from the cake I hadn't planned anything but it all came together nicely at the last minute and included an autumn themed table setting. Usually we don't do half birthdays for adults but Lucy insisted that we had to do something for her Daddy!</span><br />
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<br />Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02429033451094376720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090365940473691505.post-39342757328110736702012-11-26T09:00:00.000-05:002012-11-26T09:00:16.702-05:00Felicity's half birthday (18 months old)<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We've been busy getting ready for Christmas making lots of crafts, decorating and working on our light display. But over the past month we have celebrated some half birthdays and other events. Let's catch up on them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First up is Flissy's half birthday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We still had the sign from her Little Miss Sunshine party so we modified it to say 1/2 instead of 1st birthday. Felicity was excited to eat pancakes with maple syrup but more particularly was ecstatic with the orange balloon tied to her high chair.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After dinner we enjoyed strawberry ice cream, her favourite dessert.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Isn't she the cutest, happiest baby! Though she is determined not to be a baby at all and is now refusing the high chair (she must sit on a proper chair) and doesn't like sippy cups (she wants a cup just like the other kids). Oh Felicity please stay a little baby for a bit longer!</span><br />
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<br />Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02429033451094376720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090365940473691505.post-87745698702059442892012-10-21T22:01:00.001-04:002012-10-21T22:01:30.825-04:0018 months old<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Felicity turned 18 months old on Friday. So we celebrated with strawberry ice cream and pink crepe paper decorations. Here are some fun things about her.</span><br />
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mum, playing peekaboo, carrying her preschool bag, getting muddy and
eating dirt, snakes, balloons, wearing hair bows, getting her hair
brushed, and dancing</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Can climb a rock wall, walk down stairs, can sign more, please and one God</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span>Is still very smiley</span>, <span>has very curly hair and very crooked teeth</span><span> (expensive dental work ahead) </span></span></li>
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<span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One thing is agreed - we all love our Flissy.</span><br />Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02429033451094376720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090365940473691505.post-29783618479342101062012-10-05T09:00:00.000-04:002012-10-05T09:00:01.222-04:00Henryism<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If we didn't have a house we could live in jail.... and eat snakes.</span>Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02429033451094376720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090365940473691505.post-16166742756708398132012-10-03T09:00:00.000-04:002012-10-03T09:00:08.626-04:00Other fun in Sydney<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So this is the end of my blogging about Sydney, and indeed our trip in general.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course there was so much more that happened. We had dinner with old school friends, dinner with accounting friends (and now there are so many kids), sat around and drank tea, talked with family and friends, drank coffee from grind, packed, slept, washed clothes, drank more coffee from grind, visited our house and neighbours...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We had an amazing time. But it was a gruelling journey and the jetlag was extremely bad. The black circles under my eyes in many photos is evidence of this. So I say all this to preface that we may not be back for a while. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Write some comments Sydney friends. We miss you. Come visit.</span>Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02429033451094376720noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090365940473691505.post-5120732649702695332012-10-02T09:00:00.000-04:002012-10-02T09:00:01.938-04:00Gluten free dining in Sydney<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We ate so much wonderful food whilst in Sydney (and Hawaii for that matter) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course I did a lot of research to find awesome gluten free food. And we were not disappointed.</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Galileo</span></li>
<li><a href="http://americancorrespondent.blogspot.com/2012/09/parental-leave-pass.html"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cafe Sydney</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">China Doll </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mad Mex (Darling Harbour)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Iku (Martin Place)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Hatters Cafe (Katoomba)</span></li>
<li><a href="http://americancorrespondent.blogspot.com/2012/09/adventures-in-balmain.html"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Brioche (Balmain)</span></a></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Loved Rowies Cakes and bought her cookbook. So far I've cooked 5 things from it and no one has liked any of them! </span>Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02429033451094376720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090365940473691505.post-22560853751187672132012-09-28T09:00:00.000-04:002012-09-28T09:00:01.836-04:00Grand Final Weekend<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It's only 15 hours until the start of the AFL grand final for 2012.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And oh how I wish I was in Melbourne right now as my beloved team Hawthorn is playing in the grand final (the equivalent of the Super Bowl final!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have been thinking back to the <a href="http://americancorrespondent.blogspot.com/2008/10/boston-bite-1-sports.html">2008 grand final when I was in Boston</a>. What a wonderful day it was watching the game on the big screen at Tommy Doyles Pub in Harvard. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It was great to be with fellow Hawk and various AFL supporters. And it was a great consolation to go to a home baseball game the next day and hear the roar of the crowd.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This year I am in Wilmington NC. I will be on my lonesome in front of the computer watching the game. Given it starts after midnight I may not watch it live but save it for early Saturday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thus my phone, facebook, twitter etc will be OFF. Do not try to contact me to tell me the result!</span> Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02429033451094376720noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090365940473691505.post-46533675566163871542012-09-27T09:00:00.001-04:002012-09-27T09:00:09.366-04:00Taronga Zoo<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another of the must do things in Sydney is to visit Taronga Zoo. Although it would have been easier to drive there, it is almost compulsory to catch the train and ferry. The ferry is a beautiful ride across the harbour and once there you take the SkySafari cable car up to the entrance of the zoo. On a clear blue winter day, or in fact most days of the year, it is a wonderful boat ride.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We ate a picnic lunch at the zoo. The highlight being a very aggressive kookaburra who swooped so close to my face I felt his feathers as he tried to steal my sandwich from my hand. He did steal a sandwich from a boy next to us and gave him a nip on his hand. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We saw lots of poisonous snakes (in cages!), patted a blue tongue lizard and visited the sleeping koalas. In the afternoon we watched the seal show, saw the fairy penguins and then headed home.</span><br />
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<br />Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02429033451094376720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090365940473691505.post-79929252465157988512012-09-26T09:00:00.000-04:002012-09-26T09:00:18.738-04:00Grandparent fun<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The kids LOVED hanging out with their grandparents in Sydney. Given their usual shyness with new people I was a little worried about how long they would take to warm up to their grandparents. The answer was no time at all. Love at first sight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And they loved playing with the chickens and collecting eggs, painting and doing stickers. All the things they can't or don't do very often at home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here are some photos of the fun times:</span><br />
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<br />Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02429033451094376720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090365940473691505.post-37732267230170886702012-09-25T09:00:00.000-04:002012-09-25T09:00:00.457-04:00Parental Leave Pass<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
We love our parents being grandparents! And that is certainly the thing we miss most about not living in Sydney (aside from passionfruit that is!)</div>
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Grandma & Grandad took the kids on their own for one night while Nanna & Grandpa braved it for two nights.</div>
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The first night we stayed at the Observatory Hotel. We walked around the actual Observatory at dusk before heading in to Galileo for dinner. It was a wonderful time! What an awesome hotel. If you get a chance to try out their showers it is worth the $.</div>
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The other two nights we stayed at the Marriott Harbourside thanks to our Marriott points. Although we had a city view room the manager was happy to upgrade us to an Opera House view. Pretty nice - see below!</div>
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We spent our days wandering around the city visiting old haunts. We walked around to the Opera House, through the Botanic Gardens, into the Pitt St Mall and then down to the QVB. We stopped along the way at the Lindt cafe and various shopping excursions.</div>
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However the highlights were the dining experiences. You know we love to eat! And even though we are now gluten free it doesn't mean that we can't eat well.</div>
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I already mentioned Galileo's at the Observatory which was as always a fine dining experience.</div>
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We also visited Cafe Sydney. Andrew hadn't been there before but I had and was extremely keen to go back. We had a reservation but had to wait in the (unlit) bar area for 30 minutes. Given there was no one throwing a tantrum, wiping their runny nose on my sleeve or jumping on the seats I really didn't mind that much as I enjoyed my bellini. But the manager was upset so she asked if we would like a table on the balcony at the front (ie with the best view!) Well, yes we would. I was a little worried it would be cold but they had outdoor heaters and wait for it, personal blankets on each seat. The waiter was a celiac so he could easily tell us what was gluten free. The food was superb! The view was sublime! And the company wasn't too bad either.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> On our last night in Sydney we met up with Dave & Kel in Woolloomooloo to dine at China Doll. The food again was amazing. The waitress was a little forward (maybe she had a tic but I'm pretty sure she was winking at me suggestively) but the Asian food was just what we had been missing. And here we are on the pier for my favourite photo of the time in Sydney.</span> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[Alexis your necklace is a world traveller!]</span></div>
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Now the event blog you've all been waiting for - Lynda & Keegan's wedding. You know that's why we went back to Australia for the first time in 5 years! </div>
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Lucy was a flowergirl and Henry was a ring bearer. Both did their jobs absolutely beautifully! </div>
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The wedding was at Hurstville Presbyterian Church and the reception at the State Library. </div>
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Of course, there are lots and lots of details in between but its not my story to tell. We had a fabulous time and here are some of the photos.</div>
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Andrew's grandma Rose turned 99 years old whilst we were in Australia.</div>
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So the family held a small afternoon tea to celebrate. And the best part was that after 5 years we were able to be together in the one place at the same time. All four grandchildren in the same city, time zone, country, and hemisphere! It probably won't happen again for a very long time.</div>
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Felicity was baptised at Hurstville Presbyterian Church. It is the church that both Andrew and I were baptised, where we were married and where Lucy was baptised. There's a whole lot more history than that but I won't bore you with it now.</div>
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Even though we obviously don't attend the church now, they were kind enough to allow us to have Felicity baptised there while we were in Australia with all of our family in attendance.</div>
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It was a beautiful day!</div>
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Afterwards Andrew's parents hosted a large bbq for many friends. It is all a blur actually as there were so many familiar faces to catch up in just a few short hours. I loved being able to sit down and chat with some dear friends and compare notes on this mothering journey. There is something so wonderful about old friends that know your background, who you are and live in the same culture. It is worth bottling and smuggling back to the US.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thank you to everyone for attending and making Flissy's baptism day so wonderful!</span>Fionahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02429033451094376720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090365940473691505.post-84646526572322130312012-09-19T09:00:00.000-04:002012-09-19T09:00:05.499-04:00Adventures in Balmain<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
When you go traveling you expect strange and sometimes scary things to happen. Our memorable event was a morning trip to Balmain.</div>
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Our plans were to visit Sucre for a hit of liquid chocolate, run around the park and then go to Brioche, a gluten free cafe for lunch. Nothing too stressful before the big day of Lynda's wedding.</div>
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All started well. We had a great parking spot, we were sipping hot chocolate and we found some fun play equipment at Gladstone park.</div>
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Lucy jumped up for the swinging flying fox, lost her grip and fell down. She hit the back of her head on the metal platform. It looked bad as it was happening. </div>
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Andrew cuddled her and whilst touching the large bump showed me that his hand was covered in blood. (I feel sick just writing this!)</div>
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So we gathered everyone up and started heading out of the park to the car, not sure what we were going to do. At the edge of the park I saw a cross road sign that I thought meant hospital. So we heading a little way down the street and sure enough there was Balmain hospital complete with emergency department.</div>
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Lucy and I checked in whilst Andrew took the little ones to get lunch. We were seen fairly quickly. As the nurse and I looked at Lucy enormous bump and blood I started to feel strange.</div>
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As we walked Lucy through to be glued up I fainted. When Andrew came back with lunch he found me lying on a hospital bed with Lucy holding my hand.</div>
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Once I was ok Lucy was taken to another bed and her head cleaned up. The doctor pronounced that she would be all fine to be a flowergirl the next day as long as the hairdresser didn't brush the back of her head!</div>
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So we headed home a little shaken up. But now I know that in my little girl is very strong and brave and able to comfort her mama in times of need!</div>
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On the way home we took a wrong turn and caught this great view of the city from Balmain. It is one of only a few photos we took that day and a reminder of that day when God provided a hospital in just the right place!</div>
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So we went to Cronulla a few times whilst we were back in Sydney. So many fun memories!</div>
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We drank lots of coffee from Grind (I'd rather be there right now), played at the beach, walked the esplanade and had a picnic lunch in the park.</div>
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The first week of our visit was cold but after that it was very mild. You can see the kids wearing just long sleeve tshirts in the photos at the beach and I'm down to a thin cardigan and long sleeved tshirt!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yes we miss our visits to Cronulla.</span><br />
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