The Sydney Opera House roof weighs more than 161,000 tons.

This week Andrew and I signed a year lease on a fancy new townhouse that we get to move in to. It is two stories (which is very rare here), with 3 bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms. There is also a two car garage that connects directly into the house. The bedrooms and bathrooms are downstairs with the lounge, dining room and kitchen are upstairs above the garage, which is nice because that means there are no rooms on top of the bedrooms in case someone needs to get up early or stays up late. We're really excited about moving it and can't wait to be in there.

We moved out yesterday, and it was way too hot but we got it done. Now we are staying with Andrew's parents until we can move in next Wednesday. It's quite a full house at the moment which makes things real interesting.

Last weekend we all went down to Sydney for Saturday because for a few weeks every year they put sculptures along the beach/cliff side between some of the beaches. We got there early and wandered around looking at all of them before having some lunch along the beach.

Some of the sculptures and views along the beach walk:

Bondi beach

this straw was one of our favorites

the little man on the left on the rock is actually a scultpure

The eyes were cool and creepy all at once

There were a few of these all made out of wire, it was really intricate

This isn't actually a sculpture but the home of a homeless man with the best view in Sydney

From there Andrew, Kate and I went in to the city to see some of the sites before meeting back up with the parents for dinner in the harbor at this great seafood place that was right next to the bridge looking at the Sydney Opera House. It was an incredibly long day, I kept dozing off on the way home and we all collapsed pretty quickly once we got home.

Andrew's favorite sculpture

We found these cool bridge cages in an alley as part of a city wide installation of art:

Opera House close up

Our restaurant is where the red arrow is pointing on the right of the bridge

The view from our table

Since we were so exhausted we spent the rest of the weekend relaxing which was nice for a change.

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.

Not too many changes but I have bought a car (yay!). It's a Mazda that is older then I am, an '82, cute little red hatchback, although it has yet to be named. It took me a little bit to get used to because it has a manual choke which I've never dealt with before so I actually flooded the car the first time I tried to drive it from home.

Work is still going well. I love getting paychecks so that's all good :)

Last weekend Andrew and I saw two houses on Saturday, not too bad but not exactly what we are looking for. I had to work Saturday night so that was a bit of a bust but we made up for it on Sunday by visiting a local vineyard. Last weekend was a big festival at all the vineyards with jazz and open houses so we went to the closest one for the afternoon. They had use try about 20 different wines and explained the whole process for to us. After the tasting we picked up a little picnic hamper and sat out in the sun on the grounds of the vineyard and listened to the jazz band play while we ate locally made quiche and spicy zucchini spread. It was kind of romantic, which is different for us, but really nice.

This week I started going to jazzercise with Andrew's mom. It's a lot of fun, hard to keep up with all the moves but good exercise and a good social activity too so I'll definitely keep it up. We're getting ready to head to Sydney for Saturday which should be good fun. Not much else to tell, hopefully more soon.