[ M a r c u s ]

Went to work the other day to be welcomed by fire crews, police and news teams.  Our office had been taped off and there was smoke bellowing out of the office next door, which was in fact on fire.  It turns out a homeless man started the fire and has been arrested.  The fire started early morning and by 11am, we were allowed (unfortunaty) to return to our smoke smelling building.

Easter, easter, easter, and birthday, birthday, birthday.

 

We’ve had an excellent couple of weeks.  For my birthday, we went to Jack Johnson in concert and dined at a  restaurant called Tetsuya’s, which is by far not your normal restaurant.  Tetsuya’s currently ranks 5^th best in the world!!!!!  And I can certainly see why.  We had to book a table 6 months in advance, but was def worth the wait for the 5 hour dining experience over 14 courses.  Check out gaz’s blog for some pics of the food.

 

For Easter, we headed down to Fingal Bay, which is a little passed Port Stephens.  Basically, we surfed, played board games and ate our own weight in cheeeeese.  We also drank wine, went on some beautiful walks seeing some of the best scenery so far in Oz.

 

Good times had by all!                          

Wowzers, tis been a long time for a blog update.  Will probably post some back track ones over the next couple of weeks if I’ve got time.

 

Anyways, this weekend we found ourselves in the Blue Mountains, living in a cave.  That’s right.  A massive sand stone cave, right in the heart of the Blue Mountains, about 1.5 hrs from Sydney.  The place is called Hatter’s Hideout, and is probably one of the coolest places I’ve ever spent the weekend. 

 

We stayed there with band and co (16 of us in the end), so you can imagine the evenings were very much filled with music.  We also had about 6 drums, and a couple of Donkey Bass’s which you can see me straddling in couple of pics, which made for some epic rhythmic sessions.

 

We also had time for a walk to Wentworth Falls, which made for some excellent photos. 

 

No doubt there will be a video of the fun on Gary’s site soon enough, http://g2007.com/

 

 

 

So another year fly’s by. We had a good one and really ended it in style aboard a lovely boat on Sydney harbour disco sylie! Perfect clear and warm evening for the fire display and bad dance moves. Also managed to give Nance another extreme experience for her birthday, diving with sharks! Good one! Christmas was chilled with the turkey roast, drinking wine, playing the wii and hanging out with our special Christmas guest jenny t. hope you all had a great Christmas and new year and look forward to seeing you back in the UK in may!

So yet again we where blessed with excellent weather at the brilliant Seal Rocks.  This is our second visit here (http://marcusmiles.spaces.live.com/photos/cns!6BECE57CD36A033D!1458/).  The surf was a little disappointment, however, not even small surf brought down a truly smashing weekend.  Roll on Seal Rock 2008.