One Last Stop on our way home...

Here we are at Bondi. Coming home via Sydney and our good friend Matt.



Relaxing on the Rocks.


Matts wedding gift to us - a Venetian feast in his garden!


And the courses kept coming...


And the wine kept flowing till everything went from this...


To this...


And by dessert we looked like this!

Haha! Excellent ending to a great trip!

Goodbye New York! We sure had fun!

At a Knicks game


Briony trying to take the best CHEESY TOURIST photo she can muster. Good job!




For Fred and Zoe and Liz.H, who wanted us to see a show on our honeymoon. Here we are at Phantom of the Opera!


Flatiron Building!


Nobody does processed food like American's. So excited to try Captain Crunch and Crackerjacks after reading about them in the Babysitters Club books!


Goodby New York, we'll be back!

New York continued...

We accidentally stumbled across some big military parade that ran for 3 hours down 5th Avenue!


It was pretty cool! Marching bands, flag waving...


...army guys with firearms...


Phewf! Lets give peace a chance! Off to central park to get away from the crowds.


Squirrel!


The Magic School Bus?


Getting cultural at the Guggenheim


And at... wait! No, guess where we are...


Excuse me but your inner 5 year old is showing...


Look who's talking! "Weeeeeee!"

New York, New York!

From Amazon Jungle to Urban Jungle, our Honeymoon continues in NY!


The Gotham-esque city lights of Times Square.



It was hard to avoid a touristy excitement meltdown



There was every shop you could imagine - a 3 story m&m's store!

MOVIE MOMENTS!


Briony plays Tom Hanks in Big - Schwartz's Toy Store


Harry has an amazing pastrami on rye in the deli (Katz's) where Harry met Sally - well, where Meg had her famous erm...'yes' moment.


Briony in another Meg Ryan moment - Sleepless in Seattle! On top of the Empire State building.


This is the view from the top - King Kong just wanted to have a look around!


Manhattan vista!


Harry reliving Ghostbusters 2


And remember this bridge from the end of Home Alone 2?

All my entomological dreams come true...

Okay, so when I was little I wanted to explore the amazon for new, amazing insects. I was a bug collector, pinner of butterflies, and watcher of videos on spiders. The inner child was thus satisfied by our jungle trip. I caught butterflies with my camera instead of a net, and discovered some of the insects I had read of but scarcely dared believe in... Please, allow me to be indulgent with this blog...
















Harry also catches the bug... chortle, chortle... But really, we were both enthralled.


Look dad! - LEAF CUTTER ANTS!


caterpillar with hair to share...

In the deep of the Jungle...

Before the decent...



My colourful hat attracts new friends



Capuchan monkey don't you know how cliche it is for you to be eating a banana? We're in the amazon - do something crazy, eat a parrot or something, freak me out!



Rickety logs span anaconda swamps


Harry learns how to escape a starving Puma