There has been a new addition to the Chedzoy / Roulston family with the arrival of baby Kameron Alan - weighing in at just under 8lbs on the 17th February at 5:30pm. Congratulations to Hayley and Kraig who will make wonderful parents and congrats to all the proud grandparents!! Kate misses you all loads - so keep sending photo's so she can coo over the baby!!!
Well it was friday night and after a long week auditing, all us guys and gals rom work decided to go get a well earned drink. we all met up after dinner at one of the local Irish bars called PJ O'Briens and then worked our way down to the larger irish bar called Scruffy Murphy's. Lots of drinking, dancing and chatting rubbish!! Had a great night and felt awful the next day!!! - definately getting too old for this!
Another new beach to bore you with. This one is called Shelley Beach because it is shelley!! Lots of dive sites around this bay and me and kate looked at some very small fishes!!!!
After much talk about going - we finally found a day for nature. The gardens for anyone who doesn't know are enormous and sprawl out around the circular quay of Sydney. They are truly beautiful and would love to say that we spent all day wandering around them, but me and kate were lazy and took the little train around it with a tour guide telling us about history of the place and which flower and tree was which!! Lots of fruit bats in the trees which kate wasn't too happy about!! All in all - a very cultural experience!! (there's got to be at least one!!)
Had heard some good things about a beautiful area called Watson's Bay which is where the rich people live in sydney. So caught the bus round the coast for about and hour and went to this exclusive area. We decided to go the beach called 'Camp Cove' as me and kate nearly wet ourselves at the name. It was a lovely beach and we got nice and brown!! Had fish and chips at the marina and watched the world go by - its a wonderful life!!
Met up with one of Kate's friends parents called Andrew and Dee in Manly. They treated us to a really lovely night out at a posh Italian restaurant with buckets of wine!!! After dinner they took us to the oldest pub in Sydney called the Fortunes of War. couple of beers and we were just a little merry. Quality night - thankyou Mr and Mrs Chinn!!!!
Met up with our mad married couple for a few civilized bevvies!!! - well almost! Headed to Darling Harbour and mixed with the locals and me and Kate did a bit of dancing!! Quality night chatting rubbish and enjoying the scenary! There also was an American Film crew in one of the bars filming some American kids who are about to become famous in the US and we tried our upmost to get on the camera!!!
Our mate Dan thinks we are obsessed with Manly Beach - so to prove him wrong we decided to venture somewhere new and decided to check out Coogee. We caught the bus and had lunch at a lovely little cafe. The beach is beautiful and a few hotties to keep us amused!! Lots of gay men in speedo's as well!!!! Managed to burn my face - ouch!!!!
After night shifts and auditing work, me and kate decided to go out on friday night and drag half the hostel and the girls from the auditing job with us. After pre drinks at the local irish bar called PJ O'Brien's we headed to the trendy bar in Darling Harbour called Cargo. Lots of drinking and dancing!! Loved it.
This is me and kate with Laura and Grannia who are 2 nurses doing the crappy auditing job. They certainly help to make the day more enjoyable. We all went out on friday which was comical!!!
It was meant to be a couple of drinks at the local bar to celebrate finishing night shifts, but what happened was....... we managed to get half the hostel to come out celebrating with us!! (they don't need much encouragement to go out!). So we went to a bar called the side bar and played pool, 21's (actually finished the whole game) and listened to a guy playing a guitar and singing (sounded just like gavin the guitar man!!). We came back to the hostel at about 1am thinking we were being very good, but got dragged out again down to scruffy murphy's and stayed out until 5am!!!! i am totally reliving my youth, but unfortunately my youth leaves me by the morning and the old hangover arrives and i feel 101yrs old!!!
One of days here - we decided we should see some nature, so jumped on a ferry across to water over to the Taronga Zoo. We saw many kangaroo's - which i pointed out to kate was what she had on her pizza the other night!! They were so cute - shouldn't be food, but have to admit, it does taste nice!!
This is Manly beach and where myself and kate like to while away our spare time topping up our tan's and generally oggling at the hot men in their surfer shorts!! It is also the place where i got stung by the blue bottle jellyfish!! Bloody hurt and still have a scar across my tummy to prove it!! My friend Dan did offer to pee on me, but being a family place and not really in to the whole urinating on people thing - i kindly declined and stuck with the ice they gave me!!
The Australian's are a very nationalistic nation and whereas we never celebrate St George's day - the Australian's go to town for their own national pride day. It fell on a friday and everyone gets the day off. The city set up celebrations everywhere, but the main daytime parties were happening in Hyde Park. We headed over there and I can only assume there must have been about 250,000 people in this park all chilling out and listening to bands play, professional dancers do routines or dj's playing new tunes. We copped a squat under a tree and bought ourselves a corn on the cob and chilled out watching a latino band play and some professionals salsa dancing!
For anyone who knows me well - is award that i have a complete obsession with neighbours! It comes from my mum who i will blame entirely!! We found out there was a meet the neighbours night up at one of the local bars called 'coolabar'. We paid our money and headed over there one sunday night. We arrived and i became a nervous wreck. I was so excited about meeting Janae, Boyd and Toadie - it was like the mothership calling me home!!!!
Me and Kate had been informed by many sources that the bridge climb of the Sydney harbour bridge was an absolute must for tourists. So me and Kate signed up and paid quite a substantial amount of money and hoped that it would be worth it. We had to take off our trousers and wear these grey and blue siuts - the first one the guy gave me was a touch on the small side and lets just say - i had a front and back wedgie!!!! After donning the correct sized suit - we were equipped with caps, hankerchiefs and headsets so we could hear what the chick was saying. We had a practice run of what it was like to climb some of the stairs and then get down and we were off. You are shackled to the side of the stairs so the most you could fall is about 1/2 a metre before the thing locked and you would be ok again! I'm not one to be afraid of heights, but this is proper high and you can see through the floor you're standing on all the way to the ground!! When climbing some of the stairs i had a slight panicky moment, but regained my confidence and climbed to the top. The views are unreal and as you can see from mine and Kate's photo's we had a ball!! We came down and went straight to the pub for a celebratory bevvie!! The guide we had was awesome and the trip up there was worth every penny! LOVE IT!!
