Friday, April 27, 2012

The New Pad

3/16/12 – Melbourne, Australia
As Tommy said goodbye to his family and made his way back to Melbourne, I headed out to go pick up his new apartment keys!  The timing was perfect!  As I got off the tram to head into our new place, Tommy got dropped off by his taxi from the airport allowing us to head in to the apartment for the first time together!  I had never seen the place before and was pleasantly surprised to see that it was even nicer than our apartment in Manly!  Time to break the new apartment in! 







3/22/12 – Melbourne, Australia
TOMMY GOT A JOB WOOOOOOOO! 
He is working in the city for a marketing/advertising company and tonight we will celebrate with some BUBBLES!








3/23 – 25/12
After school on Friday I had drinks with the other teachers following a full day of swimming.  Yes, I had to swim in front of the entire Junior School including students, staff AND parents!  At Carey each child is assigned to a different house, similar to Harry Potter, and throughout the year the houses compete for points in different competitions such as swimming, running, behaving in class, etc.  Today was the swimming house competition for the Junior School.  You are probably wondering why the heck I had to swim…  Well in the middle of this fun day of competition, there is a race between the Year 6 students vs. the Year 6 parents vs. the Junior School Staff.  Obviously none of the staff really want to be in this race because it is a bit uncomfortable to be in a bathingsuit in front of all of your students, staff and parents, so I was forced to be a member on the staff team.  Thank gosh I am a strong swimmer so I did not totally embarrass myself, but I am pretty sure I was so worried about looking stupid that I crushed the Year 6 student swimming next to me when the point was to let the students win…ooops!  I think I may be a bit too competitive…

Tommy and I had a fun filled weekend!  I took him on a date to celebrate his job to a building called the Curtain House.  The Curtain House has two restaurants, a few boutiques and a rooftop cinema and bar.  I thought it would be fun to work our way up the building starting on the first level for drinks in the great pub, moving our way up to the second level for dinner, and ending the night on the rooftop bar with a gorgeous view of the electrically charged city.
Saturday we went around town to the South Melbourne Market and cooked a great dinner of pumpkin, goat cheese, pine nuts, olive oil and brown sugar/cinnamon gnocci.  It was divine and I must say it is so nice to have a full functioning kitchen again to get our cooking skills back in action!
Sunday was a jammie day!  Scrap booking and puzzle making, a day of crafts and relaxation.

3/2612 –
A few days ago I read a beautiful story about my cousin Cameron, written by a girl who was a student of his.  Although it was painful to read, it was such a beautiful story that I decided to share with Tommy tonight.  The story concluded with the girl thinking of Cameron every time she sees a sunset…  So as the sun set over Melbourne, we sat on our balcony drinking a glass of wine as I shared stories about my cousin.  It was fitting that tonight was such an amazing sunset, and at the end the clouds rolled in leaving just a few slivers of golden orange rays shining through, and I knew Cameron was looking down on me with Papa. 
I think the best was Tommy’s reaction when he said, “I wish I had met Cameron, he seemed like such a great guy, and I think we would have gotten along…Plus I would have evened out the basketball teams a bit!”  I loved this because I relate basketball to Cameron, and Tommy already had this same picture of him in his head just from my stories.

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