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!

BOO!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!! this will be the first year i'm really not doing anything for it. no parties, no costumes, no scariness! they don't celebrate it as much in the US. imagine not going trick or treating when you were little! oh how they're so deprived! BUT we do have a ride today and that should be lots of fun!!!!

this is me last year! i went as a baseball from A League of Their Own. My favorite flick!

more from the sticks

weeble wobble

hey peeps-

just in melbourne for the wknd, i had an interview as a santa photographer! haha fingers crossed! anyway, i'll be back at the farm tomorrow and will probably only be there about a week longer. i'm totally bummed about it. if i could, i'd stay there the rest of the time. anyway, i'll post later. cheeeers!

eat, sleep, pictures!

hhhhhey peoples--
just posting a few more pictures from my country days. it's still amazing here and i never feel more like myself than when i'm amongst nature. i've been looking into some positions as a nanny, but we'll see. i'll probably be here for the next 2 weeks. it's going to be hard to leave perfection! enjoy these pictures!

woolybutts eye!! yes i know...woolybutt! hehe

saddle/bridal room

poker---he's an odd one.

and this is william. he stays here sometimes. pretty old dude.

funny angle of wooly!

me!

boots and oil skins

freeee

boots and jeans gal

william felt the need to check out exactly what it is i was doing in this one. can't blame him!

Inspired these days...

Hi Everyone! It's Courtney reporting from Melbourne, not the farm! Everything here is pretty much the same. Just working and hanging out with mates (use some aussie lingo). My job is up in a little less then a month so I am on the job hunt again! I don't think it will be that hard to find a job, probably just back to hospitality! I think Cait mentioned that I moved into a hostel right near work which has been working out pretty well! At first I was a little skeptical but now that we have cleaned up our room, put everything away, vaccumed etc....I feel much more comfortable! My roommate Marye is a super sweet girl from London who is just traveling around with one of her friends! I also have a few friends who live about a block away so I have been going over there for dinner a lot and just hanging around with them which has been really nice! It's nice to just walk to a friends house, chill for a little while and walk home, haven't done that in ages!
We have also been going to this place called Lentil As Anything. They serve breakfast, lunch and dinner and it is all FREE...really it is! Now you should drop some money into the donation box but I guess you don't have too if you don't want to...but you should! Lentil as Anything is a unique vegetarian restaurant that is run as a not-for-profit community organisation. It is largely staffed by volunteers. There philosphy is "the customer decides what they want to pay for the food and drinks they've had. They decide what it's worth and donate anonymously into the box on the counter." Each day it's a different type of food, Monday it might be African, Tuesday Sri Lanken Wednesday...who knows, but it is always delicious! I was thinking about volunteering but the training times are during my working time and I can't afford to take off work...maybe when I have a different job I will have time!!! I just think it is such a great concept! Imagine if every place did this type of thing! lentilasanything.com
So lately I have been feeling very inspired to travel, do an ESL program, go to random countries help less fortunate people! I have met all these wonderful people who have been traveling for years and love it! I came across this website called stumbleupon.com and they have so many tips on traveling, volunteering, things you need to do before you die and it just really makes me want to get out there and do it all...and thats exactly what I am going to do!!!!
Ok I am done now! Sorry for the grammatical errors and the rambeling I am doing this at work....sshhhhhhhh! Don't tell anyone!

another one....

upoloaded a footy video as well.

use the same link: http://vimeo.com/user2138081/videos