happy turkey day!

hi everyone! i hope you all are with the ones you love today and are eating until you're in a tryptophan induced coma. court and i celebrated yesterday and made a great feast for 13 of our friends! we ended up starting late--3pm, and didn't eat until 10! but it was worth it and we all had a great time. it was nice to show the aussies what thanksgiving is all about. here's some shots from the night! enjoy your day!!


daniel and courtney! it's daniel's place that we had tgiving at!

mmm sizzlin sweet potatoes. they were sooo yummy when they were done!

the chefs of the evening

green beans wrapped in bacon. moms recipe and a delicious appetizer!

nelson and dylan

POTATO CITY

cooking away

emma and daniel

the turkey. we thought it only took 45 minutes to cook. but something sounded fishy about that. so as i reread the directions, i realized yea, it takes 45 minutes---PER KILO to cook! aka about 3 hours. haha

ceremoniously cutting the turkey

the group

babble

hi everyone! sorry it's been a while. i've been really busy working. i work at helly hansen. it's a store that sells ski and sailing apparel. great stuff and i get an awesome discount! courtney has an interview tomorrow at a restaurant that i'm sure she'll get. she's overqualified for any of these places which is good on her end. it's getting realllllly warm here. summers are intense. our friend sabina left for europe today, so we're a little bummed. she was our first and best friend in au! but hopefully she's coming to the u.s. next year. cross your fingers! my birthday's on sunday. i have to work! but only til 6, so i think we're going to just grab dinner and drinks afterwards. nothing fancy. just low key, which is my style. i'm beat. i had such a long day, so i'm going to turn in. here's some snapshots! goodnight.

life at the rock!

ok, so as you know, court and i live at the rock...hostel/share house/awesome. at first, yea, i had to get used to it. but now...i love it! first off, it's clean now, primarily because i think everyone just got sick of living in a dump. but really, the main thing is, and the reason why everyone stays, is the people. we love everyone here. how cool that our friends are from denmark, finland, scotland, ireland, france, spain...and the list just goes on. we all have one connection...we're travelers. and we're all able to relate to one another so quickly because of that fact. it's great. when you throw yourself into a house of 30 people, you have no other choice but to live it up. and everyone knows everyone, so you can't beat it. anyway...here's a few shots of some good times thus far!

back in the cbd...

well, i'm back in the city. i'm living with courtney in the share house. it's definitely interesting. seriously...when you get 30 people, all from different countries, in one house...nothing's boring. it's cheap and dirty honestly. not my favorite way to live, but i don't hate it. i have 4 roommates and a big balcony which is nice. as long as i keep my stuff clean and neat, i'm all good. i'm really only here for sleeping. our really good friends live right down the street, so we go there a lot. 2 months won't kill me! just gotta make some bucks before we travel. court and i booked our tickets today. so plans are official. we're doing our east coast trip for the month of january. then january 25th, we go to thailand and we're staying there for about 2 1/2 months. we'll travel about and it's super cheap, which is great. on april 16th, we fly to rome to meet our family then fly back to the states on april 28th! and that's that...until we think of new travel plans of course. ok, i'm pretty tired. goodnight!