29 Years Young

Posted on June 29, 2012 by robandlinds

We celebrated Rob’s birthday at Phillip’s Foote – a restaurant in the Rocks – with a bunch of mates. The restaurant is similar to the Oaks, where you grill your own meat and potatoes.

You’ll find that the service level is very different in Australia than it is to the States.

It’s uncommon to find Rob wearing a jumper (Aussie slang for sweater or sweatshirt) on his birthday..

The next evening we went to see several Aussie comedians in the Entertainment Quarter – probably one of Rob’s favorite things to do.

Wine Country

Posted on June 15, 2012 by robandlinds

We booked a big house in the Hunter Valley region with a group of about 12 of us.

On the way up, Keth’s car managed to get a flat tire after hitting a massive pot hole (for starters, we didn’t have a jack in the car and we were in an area with little cell phone service and no street lights on the road).

Luckily, the first car that passed us (15 minutes later) stopped to help!!

We rented another van (the driver wasn’t ‘Kathy’ this time, but he did know who she was) who took us around to 3 vineyards we had not been to in the Hunter Valley Region.

Audrey Wilkinson had the best views — shown in the middle picture above.

All-in-all it was an awesome trip!

Can’t ever go wrong with a trip up to the Hunter with a fun group of friends!!

Rad-elaide

Posted on June 8, 2012 by robandlinds

Linds surprised me with a trip to Adelaide, South Australia on the Queens birthday long weekend. All along I thought we were going to Berry but then she had me open an early present with Megan and Innes which (after opening several individually wrapped boxes within boxes) ended up being our plane tickets.

Adelaide was a nice country town but my favorite part was our wine tour in one of South Australia’s most famous wine regions, McLaren Vale. Unlike Hunter Valley, some of the vineyards were right on the ocean.