I met the lovely Jessica Mauboy at the launch of YouTube Sessions. She has a fantastic voice and was quite adorable.
YouTube Sessions & Jessica Mauboy
Christine Knight
Christine is the editor of Adventure, Baby! She loves cake, her tolerant husband and her busy preschooler.
Great Scott!
Alec and I had a fantastic time at a Back to the Future charity screening to raise money for the Parkinson’s Foundation.
Check us out in the DeLorean.
This is heavy!
Welcome Summer!
Sydney is suddenly tropical. Stinking hot days, followed by days of non-stop rain.
I can’t wait till Christmas this year. After last year’s insanity of planning a wedding, this year is looking calm and relaxed by comparison.
Yayyyy summer!
Family outing at Manly
BFFs at Balmain
Poser
Vinzena & Mark’s Wedding, St Mary’s Cathedral
Alec and I were guests at our first Scotalian wedding this weekend, held in the crypt at St Mary’s Cathedral.
The beautiful bride, Vinzena, with her lovely parents.
The happy couple, Vin & Mark.
Outside the crypt, listening to the bagpipe player.
Congrats guys, on a gorgeous, fun, wedding, and what I know will be a fabulously happy marriage.
Sunday Brunch @ Kazbah
Aston Live at TGIF
I had the amazing pleasure to watch the talented classical group, Aston, live at Google.
A Google Halloween – 2010
Even though we don’t traditionally celebrate Halloween, I love that Google makes a big deal out of the day purely because it’s a bit of extra fun in the week. Here are a few pics from Googl’ween!
Ohh scary spider in reception.
The cafeteria gets a makeover.
There was a pirate wench in reception.
Stephen Conroy made an appearance handing out filters.
Victoria loving the pumpkin carving.
The bogan and Raggedy Ann make small talk.
Serial killer pumpkin.
Award-winning spider pumpkin.
On the weekend, I went to a party hosted by a friend and dressed up as Malice in Wonderland.
You’re next, not-so-innocent pooch!
Chiara turns 1
I’ve had a busy few months since my US-of-A trip with a lot of work, birthdays, netball and dance classes.
One particularly important birthday was for the ever-fashionable, completely adorable Chiara.
Little Miss celebrated her birthday with a pink tutu and totally gorgeous cake.
Happy birthday little one!
California and NYC Trip
I haven’t felt much like blogging lately, so this is a brief account of my recent USA trip. It was mostly for work, but I managed to squeeze in a trip to NYC and Monterey. Most of the trip, when I wasn’t working, I was catching up with friends and family.
First stop, San Francisco.
Catching up with Isis, Mansi and baby Maya.
Dinner at Greens Restaurant in SF with Jamie, Lisa and Isis.
One of Mansi and Jason’s Abyssinian cats.
Another of Mansi and Jason’s pets!
Filming an AdSense video with Victoria in Mountain View.
Drinking the Koolaid on campus.
Next destination, NYC! I stayed with Masa for a few days in Brooklyn.
View from the Brooklyn shore.
Making a new friend in the park.
One of seven bridal couples I saw having photos taken in the area.
View from the Metropolitan Art Gallery rooftoop garden.
Doing what I do best 😉
Goofing off with Masa.
Dinner with Janice and Calman.
Hello Jersey Shores!
At the Google NY office with Olah.
And Nadia …
… and Isa!
Then it was back to Mountain View…
On campus, taking in the sites.
Nom nom nom.
My friendly tour guide, Gus, and giant green Android.
Making a new friend! Meeting Zoe Pollock.
Alec met me in Mountain View. We were able to spend a long weekend in Monterey.
My favourite animals at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the jellies!
Drive down the coast to Big Sur. Amazing scenery.
Gorgeous water.
Gorgeous, jet-lagged, husband.
Beautiful!
Admiring the view.
The red woods in Big Sur.
Small husband…
Tiny wife.
Meeting the locals.
My brother and Michele drove down to nearby Carmel for the end of the weekend.
Back in Mountain View with the Ring family – Jeannette and little PJ.
Making more friends on campus! Meet Lola.
Birthday in Melbourne: Day 3
My birthday fell on day 3 of our Melbourne trip. We had a sleep in, breakfast in the hotel, and then sauntered off to the Tim Burton Exhibition. I’ve always admired his films, so seeing his artwork on loan from personal collections was quite amazing. I found it entertaining picturing him as an animator for Disney, seeing as his personal style is quite the opposite.
I felt most inspired seeing the exhibition, as Tim Burton has clearly worked extremely hard to get to where he is. For every success he has had, he’s had more than double the amount of projects go nowhere. His passion and skill have taken him to where he is, also his tenacity. It reminded me to be stronger and not give up on my dreams.
Hello giant blow-up scary person.
“Nananananananana BATMAN!”
My favourite quote of the day, overheard in the exhibition: “Did he do Shrek?” Lol.
After the exhibition we wandered around some more on the river banks until the sun went down.
The Yarra.
Very scenic.
As CBD as it gets.
Pretty bridge makes for nice photos.
Baroo?
It’s my birthday and I’ll pose if I want to.
And make my husband pose too!
Another graffiti wall.
Outside the ACMI building – such a cool design.
I lurve you blob!
Raaarrr!
We didn’t exactly see eye-to-eye, lol.
Run, husband!
Blobs make for handy seats too.
And then SHE said …
After much wandering, we had dinner at the very funky Fifteen. I love Jamie Oliver, so was keen to try his restaurant.
The restaurant was excellent. Stylish, great vibe, fabulous service. The food was really great, interesting recipes rather than the stock standard type, particularly for the veggo options.
What is down the stairs?!
Happy birthday to me! (This may have started out as “happy birrhday” …)
Another year older …
One more pose for the road. Happy, well-fed and slightly tipsy.
Even the restaurant had graffiti art …
I’m on a tram!
Back at the hotel – Alec and the frog, together at last.
I wore out my husband …
Thanks so much for the fantastic weekend away Alec 🙂 xox