Saturday, December 05, 2009

One Last Stop on our way home...

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

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Relaxing on the Rocks.

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

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And the courses kept coming...

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

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To this...

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And by dessert we looked like this!

Haha! Excellent ending to a great trip!

Monday, November 30, 2009

Goodbye New York! We sure had fun!

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At a Knicks game

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

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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!

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Flatiron Building!

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

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Goodby New York, we'll be back!

New York continued...

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

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

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...army guys with firearms...

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

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Squirrel!

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The Magic School Bus?

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Getting cultural at the Guggenheim

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

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

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Look who's talking! "Weeeeeee!"






Sunday, November 15, 2009

New York, New York!

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

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The Gotham-esque city lights of Times Square.


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It was hard to avoid a touristy excitement meltdown


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

MOVIE MOMENTS!

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

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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.

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

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

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Manhattan vista!

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Harry reliving Ghostbusters 2

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