Week 1 - Sydney Babyyyy!

Yo!

It's hard to believe that twenty twelve already has a full week under its belt, and a pretty hectic one at that. In under 36 hours of the New Year the fam and I were all packed up and headed for Sydney. We arrived late into the night on the 2nd at our amazing two/three story house an easy walk from Manly Beach. Since then we've had days jam packed full of walking, family reunions and possibly the best experience of my life!

A couple days of this week were spent exploring Manly Beach and The Spit areas, sussing out possible activities as well as getting our bearings. We've eaten at a few different places, with big meals and new things to try, which I'm finally appreciating as I will be living off plain rice as soon as I head off to Uni.

The day before yesterday we met up with my lovely Grandma on the wharf to catch up with her for a few hours and have lunch - fish and chips and greek salad, yum! Then all of us headed to my Aunt and Uncle's new house to see them and our cousins, who I haven't seen in years, for a lovely family dinner.

Moving on to yesterday, which was possibly the greatest day of my life! After a confusing drive into Darling Harbour we arrived at the PowerHouse museum, we the proceeded to make the best purchase of the trip - tickets to the Harry Potter exhibit!!!!!!!1! We had to wait until 6:30 to go through as all of the previous sessions had been sold out. In the hours leading up to it we walked around the harbour and looked through the rest of the ph museum. However my attention was def elsewhere!
Finally we got to go into the exhibit, and it did not disappoint! Just seeing original artefacts from all of the movies, ahhhh - I don't really know how to explain it - it was absolutely incredible and gave me the most amazed/impressed/satisfied feeling! Also pulling a mandrake, sitting in Hagrid's chair and tossing a quaffle were good experiences! Definitely something I will remember forever!

Today was also great! We held a lunch for my Grandma, Aunt, Uncle, one of my other cousins (who I also haven't seen in so long) and her boyf, which was a really nice gathering. We spent a good amount of time swimming, and I'm sunburnt as I have been for most of this trip, but hey - bring on the tanning ;P

But that's about it for this week, one of the more interesting ones for the year that's for sure!
- Brim