Ahhh... Bill Buckner

Since i've been away from Boston (and the U.S.) for so long, I saw this video and it made me miss home and my beloved Red Sox!

Not sure if anyone else saw this, but thought I would share!

Go Sox! Great to see we beat the Blue Jays... Nice job Youk!

Tap Dancing

So I just signed up for an 8 week tap dancing class with a couple of the WAGS (Wives And Girlfriends) of Chris' classmates. We decided it would be a fun and exciting way to exercise! I've never taken tap dancing before, so this is all new to me, but I am very excited to learn some new dance moves. The good news is Chris is an experienced tap dancer. Shocking I know... But take a look at some of the moves he's taught me! Now that i've learned these moves, i'm going to blow the socks off the other dancers in the class!



Watch out Fred Astaire! (Does this remind anyone of a scene in Dumb and Dumber?)

P.S. I apologize the video is sideways... If anyone knows how to fix this... let me know!

Happy Pesach

Just want to wish everyone a Happy Pesach!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday this year and we do wish we were back home to celebrate with friends and family. However, we did still celebrate our Passover "Sydney Style" by having some of our friends over for dinner on Saturday night. Chris and I had a blast cooking together all day Saturday (and of course cleaned the apartment) for our mini Seder.

There were 6 of us at dinner and Chris and I got to teach everyone about the traditions of Passover. We had a great meal consisting of brisket, dill potatoes, veggie matzah ball soup, asparagus, charoset and Australia's version of Manischewitz (Carmel Concord Grape). My mission to find Manischewitz in Sydeny was obviously NOT a success.

Here are some pics from the First Night and of course pics of our clean apartment!

Please also notice the wonderful Seder Plate our honorary Jew (Chris) put together in the pics below.



We ended the night with a quick game of Pictionary. Unfortunately the boys destroyed us. Must be the MBA program!

Not That I'm Wining...

For those of you who celebrate Passover, you will hopefully be able to relate to this. Chris and I are having Passover dinner at our place on Saturday night, so I started pulling together a list of the ingredients I will need. Simple list you would think...

• Matzah
• Matzo meal
• Lipton Onion Soup mix (part of my brisket recipe - I will not reveal the rest although i'm sure every other Jewish person I know has this recipe)
• Manischewitz (Concord Grape will do... no need to get fancy with the Blackberry, Elderberry etc.)

So, I went to two grocery stores and two wine shops and I couldn't find ANY of the above. I'm officially on a mission to find my Manischewitz wine. Until then...

Chopsticks and Zen... meet the Blogaroo!

Thomson employees are everywhere!  It was so great to have Rachel (i.e. Patch) come and visit Australia for a few days. Due to some "technical difficulties" with Rachel's camera, we're a little delayed in her "cameo" to our blog... But, the pics are finally here!

For those of you who don't know Rachel, she moved out to San Francisco about 2+ years ago from Thomson's Boston office and then decided to venture off to Hong Kong in November of 2007.  It's great to have another friend on this side of the globe!

Our next trip...

HONG KONG!

I actually have to give some credit here to Rachel. She started a blog when she moved to HK which inspired me to start the Blogaroo... Her "Patcherific" blog is titled "Chopsticks and Zen" - the link is below along with some other friends blogs under the section "Bloggers". 

**Please also note that i've added a new section called "Skypers". If you would like a cameo on the Blogaroo make sure your Skype accounts are up and running!

Certified and Perfecting the art of Sailing

The past two weekends Chris has been working on getting certified for SCUBA diving. We are very excited about Shiggles (aka. Chris Sheehy) to come out (down) to visit in May. Chris and Chris (and Brent) will be heading up to Cairnes to do a 3 day dive trip. Unlike Mexico, you actually need to know HOW to dive in Australia.

So, Chris is officially certified in SCUBA and he is getting more and more excited about his venture to the Reef!

Those of you who know me well, know that SCUBA isn't exactly my thing. While Chris was getting certified and swimming with goat fish...

and Dusky Whaler Shark...

I was busy sailing through Sydney harbour on a beautiful catamaran! (Much more my speed). I went with one of my new friends Stephanie and a couple of her colleagues from Google... Otherwise known as "Googlers".

There are so many boats out all around the harbour, they actually have little "coffee boats" that go around serving up espresso, cappuccino, lattes and all sorts of ice cream. Very fancy!

I wonder if Chris had coffee delivered to him under water? Nah...

Visitors...

A couple weeks ago Sabrina (from college) came out to visit a friend who is traveling around the world. Luckily she came to Sydney, and Chris and I got to visit with her for a few hours while she was here!

Sabrina - if you're reading this, it was so good to see you! Can't wait to hear about the rest of your trip! Also - I think we're going to go to Jervis Bay with my parents and stay at the Paperbark Camp that you recommended. It looks amazing.

To the rest of our viewers... keep a lookout from our trip to Jervis in June when my parents are visiting!

Mom and Dad - can't wait to see you!!!