The weekend in Sydney

 Hi,

Sydney is really turning on the weather. We had the smoothest flight over the Tasman - a huge high in the middle stretching over both countries made it super easy.

Flight over on Friday afternoon

At one point around halfway the plane banked to the right and I looked out the left side and saw a jet right there. By the time I fished out my phone to take a pic, it was much further away. How cool.

Close jet

Easy exit from the airport and onto the airport train. A change at Central to the Metro line (platform 26 and 27) and I was on the train heading to Tallawong. 

Karen met me at the station and it would have been 1945 by this stage. She whisked me home and we settled in. 

Up early Saturday for park run. Karen walked it (she only took 10 more mins than me). I did a good pace and would have been quite fast for 2026 if it wasn't for the slow first 400m.  There were 888 competitors. Wow.

Park run

Feet are ready

Post park run face

Almost post park run

Slightly weak iced latte

Grabbed an iced latte at Frankies. But frankly, it was a bit weak. Not burnt though. Then headed home to chill for a bit.

Hahah - awesome dog Christmas pic. See one with Toby bottom right?

At around 12, Mel picked us up. And after swapping to Noush's car at her house, we went to the netball at Ken Rosewell stadium.

I'm in Sydney

Found this awesome ring walk over an old brickpit

Brilliant green sludgey water

We had some lunch at a noodle place then went for a walk around the Olympic village complex. Found this awesome raised ring walk over an old brick pit. So cool.

Great walk

Would do again

Grace!

Okay - there is a height difference

The Swifts v the Giants was great fun. It was ANZAC day so they kicked it off with a ceremony. So good (but no NZ anthem!).

Swifts slowly pulled away from the Giants and got a handy win in the end. Good fun.

ANZAC ceremony

Next morning Karen made me a delicious brekkie. Yum!

Sunday brekkie from Karen

We took the boys for a walk. And I got to see the total debacle that is their landscaping. It is so disappointing to see ineptitude at that scale. Good luck to progressing this with another company to get it sorted. The vision Karen and Scott have is great - they just need someone that can help them with that. Not that original company, that is for sure.

View of their fence

Walks

Karen and I headed to town to enjoy the play, Cluedo, at the Royal Theatre just around the corner from Martin's Place. We went in with Scott as he had his shift starting at midday and our play started at 1pm. He showed me the cool hallway with the new art for the latest Star Wars movie coming out soon.

Karen and Scott and The Mandalorian

Me!

Yep - in Sydney for sure now

Bit of bubbles for the play

My mocktail

Karen had booked a cheese box with bubbles. I got a mojito mocktail. All lovely. And the play was such fun. Our seats had restricted views - but the set design was so good. I had never seen the movie, but the play seemed quite faithful to it, according to Karen.

A wee cheese box

The Royal theatre

Monday saw me up super early and I got picked up at 6am by Abby to head to a session at her gym at 6.30. Turns out she goes to a high altitude gym. So there I was, puffing my way through a huge cardio session. We were partners and we took turns on ERG machines and other equipment. Battle ropes. Burpees. Squats with weights. Super hard. But so happy I did it with Abby.

We got a very welcomed post session iced latte next door. Good coffee.

Post hi-brid conditioning session

Tyler's cat - this is Shaco

At around 11.30 we headed to Liverpool to meet Tyler. Her flat is so nice. 5th floor (I want to say #511) of a fairly new complex. 

She has two adorable cats. The wee girl just had been spayed so he had a beautiful sunflower on to protect her stitches.

Shaco is very handsome

This is Akali. She has stiches but is very beautiful despite the sunflower adornment

Tyler's kitchen

Tyler has also just started at an orthodontist as an assistant. We walked from her flat to her work. But being a public holiday, most things were shut. We did end up at a nice pub and had a lovely lunch.

Never been to this Liverpool

Scott St - Liverpool

Scott St

This is true, right Maureen?

Where are these snakes? In the letterboxes?

Cuddles

Back home and Karen and I watched some TV before I started feeling quite sleepy. And I had a great sleep before getting up at 5.30am Sydney time to start work.

I hope your short week is a good one.

Have a great day.

Love,

Angela

The Monday working from home and then netball

 Hi,

I worked from home on Monday and it was a good thing. Got laundry done. Baked bread after work before I went to town. Changed kitty litter. 

Sourdough

Headed into town after I fed the cats and fed myself some pasta to meet Mike at work.  Bumped into Erin and Pippa as I went into work so they came in. Found Mike talking to Jill. So headed off to TSB to see Pulse play Steel.

TSB Arena - Pulse v Steel

Here I am

What a game. So close.  Pulse were ahead the entire game - except for the last 30 seconds where it all went wrong. Steel got a super shot. Then their centre pass gave them the chance to go ahead with the winner. And they made it easily.  56 to 57. Bad luck to Pulse. It was there for them.

Hey Jill

Erin and Pippa are in the background

Back to work

Said goodbye to Erin and Pippa and Jill (Pippa has changed so much since the last time I saw her - she is taller than me I think).

Headed back to work where Mike was helping Shane assemble the mini golf courses.  Hahahah.

Looks good, Shane

Home by 10pm and into bed.  Up to bus in because we have dinner at Bellamy's tonight.  PT session was tough. Finished push ups for the day (170) and did squats with wraps.  70kg  4 sets x 3 reps.

Tuesday morning iced latte with Lisa and Satish

Bumped into Lisa and Satish at French Kiss cart. And then off to work for the huge day.  Mini golf comp day.

Have a fantastic day.

Love,

Angela