Month: Jan 2017

​To start off the morning i made a smoothie with a concocksion of kale, carrot, blueberries, strawberries, goji berries, pineapple, oat milk, protein, spirilina, acai and probiotic powder. A mixture of ingredients we have to finish as tomorrow we are leaving to Lindas place, our house sit is over.

We took the dogs for a walk stepping up our walking regime to include burpees, skipping, lunges, pull ups etc.

We wanted to start the new year fresh and healthy so thank goodness we didn’t drink ourselves silly or accept any drugs offered to us by a young couple on the bus last night. Not that we would do that anyways Grandma.

We drove to Lindas in our loaned volvo to drop off our bags so we don’t need to look like homeless people carrying everything we own on the bus tomorrow.
The new year has brought something new to the relationship, I’m not sure what, another spark, some constant mistletoe lingering over us from Christmas. I don’t know. But i love this man more each day. 

​This is my first entry in 5 days. 

Its because of this house sit, its amazing. We wake up, make a smoothie with all the healthy ingredients you can imagine as Julia the owner is a naturopath so im in heaven. We take the doggies for a walk and then we have been filling out days with activities like the beach, catching up with friends, day trips with the doggies and movies at night. By the time my head has hit the pillow in this hugely comfy king size bed i have fallen asleep whilst attempting to keep my blogging eyes open.
The simple luxuries of normal life.

Today we headed off ţo the Dee Why hotel which slowly got packed due to the Ronda Rousi fight. I didnt in particular want to watch the fight but we went together and had lunch there so Rob wouldnt feel like a loner. 🙂
I edited this blog in the meantime on Robs laptop, he didnt mind, he was watching the fights and the atmosphere was great. Rousi got flogged. Not the kind you give or get from siblings over shoes. The type you would give to your friend who you have just walked in on with your man. Quick, fast and knocked the puck out.
Hopefully she is ok. Her ego would be very wounded.
We then headed home, got supplies and headed to North head via bus.
It was pretty roudy. We had a distance to walk through Manly which was fun due to the copious amounts of drunk families on the beach. Fun times.
Up the hill we walked, Rob taking of his shirt as it was warm and he was carrying all the supplies. He is so dam sexy, i love this man.
We get to the gates only to be greeted by security taking away alcohol. What the! We didnt even hesitate. No alcohol we are outa here. We had just carried it so far and were not going to give it up now.

The local guy standing across the road looked confused at our turn around. We stated why and he greatfully gave us a secret location close which was firework worthy. It was beautiful, secret and romantic. We ate nibbles, drank beer and wine and watched the sydney fireworks. Well the 9pm ones anyways. Haha we were nakkered and pulled the pin, headed home and spent the countdown in each others arms. Happy New Year, there is no where else id rather be.

Boxing day was fantastic.

We got up, got our boat gear on and headed to the wharf. Completely under estimated the time it would take to get dressed, buy alcohol and catch the bus so we ubered it. $50 later and we arrived only to recieve a message saying the boat is running late to pick us up. Haha ohh well we had time to enjoy a tea and  coffee on the water.
We got onto the 54ft yatch thanks to my friend Heather and her boyfriend Daves friends.
They were funny, majority of the boat was of people 2-3 times our age but they were all millionaires and very successful.
Great opportunity for us to learn. The captain use to own a carpet business, and sold it for a lazy $70mil.
The lovely English couple i spoke to at the end of the day spend 4-5 months of the year sailing around the Mediterranean for their retirement. He use to work in corporate banking and she owned her own physio business.
Another lady had a graphic design business and her husband also in banking. We sailed past there 8 million dollar North Bridge mansion that they were completely re landscaping, with access straight to the water with there own private jetty. Just over 2000 sq metre block.
Aside from the fantastic educational company we sailed to the starting line of the Sydney to Hobart and watched all boats take off. There were so many and so many onlooking boats. Last year Heather sailed in the race so it was nice for her to see it from a different angle.
I have a great joy inside from introducing Heather to sailing on a trip in the Caribbean. I was part of the Emirates sailing team and we had space on the boat so along came Heather and Linda for the adventure. What a great time we had. Fancy dress parties on a different Island every night.
Today was another amazing day on the ocean, I’ve missed her.

​Christmas day was lovely. We spent it with Robs family, some he hadn’t seen for the last 12 years. They are really nice people. Very kind, funny, helpful and accomidating. The christmas day weather was fantastic and they had a big pool out the back which cooled my constantly heated boyfriend down.
The kids got so many pressies and played on the computers or in the pool most of the time.
Kids are so funny, when we walked into the house and were being introduced to everyone there was one child missing. We found him hiding around the side of the couch and he had demolished 1/4 of a large container of gummy bears that santa had given them. His mum later tells me he loves sugar so much but when she was pregnant she was a diabetic. Just for his pregnancy. Isnt diabetic anymore. Wierd. Surely there is some sort of correlation with the childs insolen production if mum was a diabetic for the pregnancy? I wonder.

Either way  i had a couple of glasses of wine and then there was tea. It was a nice surprise, i was expecting to have a few more drinks as Robs immediated family love a good glass of wine. Probably for the best and felt better for it. So off we headed to our  temporary home sober and happy to be greeted happily by Brock and Rosie. 

​Rob slept so well. The first night since we have left on our trip that we have slept in a king size bed.

Rob is a light sleeper so anything smaller and he can’t sleep the whole night as i roll around.
In the tent every movement on our sleeping mats rubs against the base of the tent and makes noise. We slept well last night.

We took the dogs for a walk, made a delicious smoothy and went shopping.
Quickly got home and got ready for a Christmas party.

Linda done amazing!! She had ready for us to eat, oysters, prawns, pumpkin salad, kale salad, mango chilli salad, watermelon and tomato salad, baked salmon, roast chicken, slow roasted 4 hour pork and crackle. If that didnt cover everything a pavalova at the end with a full dose of sagrias ready to devour all night.

It was delicious. I had brought her 2 paleo books, 1 that was specifically for dessert (and i know she loves that )and the other for all natural gluten and sugar free recipes. She loved them. 

We are now on our way back to the beautiful  babies Rosie and Brock.
I tried to talk to Rob whilst sitting here on the bus and he ignored me like he does when ever he is in the middle of doing something. He is writing a text.
So now we are sitting in silence and i decided to write on my blog. My diary. My venter.

When he was ready to chat i let him know that i think it is rude when he often won’t respond to me when I’m talking to him. He actually let me know that he is so sorry and that after drilling offshore for so many years he thinks he is a bit deaf from the machinery. He promised to get his ears checked. Haha ooops lucky we covered that, often I’ve thought he was just being rude and ignoring me. Its ok just deaf.

​We woke up at Tobys and headed off to a bus to Dee why to meet our potential house sitting owners.

Rob put me in charge of directions for the day. Partly because he isnt a city guy but mostly because he does all the navigating whilst riding so its my turn now.
I was too busy talking so we missed the stop which was just before the apartment. The bus didnt stop next for another 3 stops because it was the express and the driver wouldnt open the door unless there was a stop.
We got a taxi straight back, it was about a 5-10min drive. Not too bad, but not necessary.

We made it ontime, its a new apartment complex, less than 5 years old and a few minutes to the beach. We press the intercom and are greeted by Lewis. He buzzes us in. We get to the apartment, hes a big muscley guy and very friendly. He introduces us to his 2 beautiful boxers Brock and Rosie. Brock is old and frail, 13 years old with a heart condition and Rosie is solid and much younger. Used to be breeding dogs and were rescued from the kennals.
Lewis adores them. He orders them special food and they own the couch.

We discuss the duties and he asks what time we would be available to come on thursday. 11am was the winning time. We will be there.
Duties include, feeding them 2 times a day.
Daily walk to the park sometimes rest stops are required going to and from.
Poo in the corner of the backyard and wee hosed down off the fake grass.
He said he will do a big food shop for us before we arrive, there is wine we can drink, we can use the volvo if we like. This is awesome!
We are going to love house sitting!!!

Next stop, bus to Manly and ferry to Watsons Bay. We meet Toby and walk around to a cute little beach hidden from the wind called Camp Cove. Behind us are million dollar properties and in front people partying on yatchs. We have a swim and head up to Watsons Bay beach club for a drink. Its 6.30pm, we had a late lunch so not hungry. We order a bottle of white to share. Nice casual Tuesday drinks.

We order A rose’, A red, Another red, Another red, Another red. Ekkk
We stumble out. I have had a glass of wine spilt on my lap so i quicky stood up and poored a glass of water in the same spot. I thought tbat did the trick until i woke up this morning with red wine all down my legs and in my toes. Rob is on the bed too. We are both fully clothed, Rob still has a shoe on.
Tobys in the foetal position on the couch still clothed. We dont remember getting home or when. Rob has lost his wallet with $350 in it.
We are a mess but what a funny night.

​It was so nice to cook in a kitchen for the last 2 mornings. Both days we have been able to poach some eggs. Yesturday we head to Huskisson where we watched a live band whilst we ate lunch. We then went for a huge walk on Hyams beach containing the whitest sand in the world. It was unbelievable. So white. Such a beautiful beach and quite well protected with a national park backing onto it. From there we got some wine and veggies and cooked dinner for Leonie. She loved it.
Today we drove up to Potts point where Rob and Toby met for the first time. One of my best friends who i havnt seen for a year.
We joined Emirates at the same time 8 years ago, trained in the same class and lived in the same building for a good 6.5 years.
Friendships are strong when you live in a foreign country together and you have no family around. They become your rock.

They got along great which is wonderful.
We had a huge walk around the harbour and then had a big swim next to the harbour bridge.
The view was amazing whilst we all sat there and pondered life after a good swim.
We then ate too much thai, a common occurrence when Toby and i are together, and laughed over red wine. He is so funny and always makes me laugh so much so it was great for Rob to be apart of our fun friendship for the first time.
We walked back to the apartment, 45 minutes of great city scenery and crashed. I love Sydney!!

​Relationships can be challenging can’t they. The biggest thing for me is communication. Without that your left guessing. Tried to ask Rob to please communicate more instead of being grumpy over something and i have no idea why. Took him a little to say what the problem was, but hes getting there.
Yesterday was drizzly all day, so we chilled out in the tent and watched movies as my warm clothes were getting more wet on the line. At one point the children in the motor home next to us were crying loudly.
Rob farted so loud that it actually went silent haha it was really stinky though and there are not many options for fresh air in a tent so it lingered, but funny indeed.
We managed to cook a seafood mix and eat it with salad for dinner.
Today i went and did yoga on the beach which was calming and Rob went for a run.

Before we took off Rob let me know there were  ants in my helmet and jacket. Didnt think much of it, did the quick once over my jacket and swiftly put it on. Before i could blink rob had grabbed my helmet and said do you mind if it gets wet. I said i didn’t want it wet and he showed me over 100 ants housed in one area of my helmet. Ekk wet it! wet it!
We washed that helmet so many times and they still kept coming out of different areas.

We then took off to batemans bay with a couple of random ants still walking accross my viser…it was a cute town though.
Drove through Mogo which reminded me of a town in Brisbane called Mt tamborine. Really quirky and cute.
Urudulla which was larger than we both anticipated, just kept going.
We are now in Calalla Bay staying at my good friend Tobys mum place with his amazing mum Leonie in there marvelous home. We just had the most delicious dinner and now we are off to bed.

​Today was a huge ride of about 6 hours. I woke up rough after a bad sleep from the cold and leg cramps. Im so unfit its disgusting.
After making dismal leftovers for breaky from the last supplies we had left, it consisted of eggs, advocado and rice paper wraps surrounded by 1000 flies.  I nearly went crazy. I sprayed my whole face and body about 5 times.  Usually it work’s but there were so many. So i didn’t rip robs head off over harvested aggression towards the flies i  did what any other normal female would do after breaky was done.  I went to the river and washed my hair.  Not even my whole body because it was so cold but the  thought of having a shit day i couldnt handle shit hair as well. Looking better always makes me feel better, and i did.  I felt great after that and the flies stayed away cause tbe food was gone and they hate water. Winning!

As a bonus whilst i was gone rob packed up the rest of the camp site so all I had to do was pack my stuff and we were off, first stop Adambimby where they are well known for there massive trout statue. Haha what the! I know!

Second stop, lunch in cooma where i had this amazing shroom buger. Delicious. Massive. Rob said you cant eat all that. Why do i have to take that on as a challenge. I did and felt so overly full all day. Wasnt even hungy by 7 and we ate that at about 1.
We drove through many fields where there was  cattle, sheep even goats. Then back through another national park which was a breath of fresh air after all the boring cattle landscape.

We saw a truck that had driven off the road accidently and turned over a few times loosing its whole back compartment within the hour of us arriving. Police were there and the ambulance and fire trucks had just left the scene. Sad to say that was a highlight in the cattle area. Hope they were ok though.
Finally we arrived in Narooma. We are camping in a caravan park $26 a night. Showers, laundry and bbqs. Simple things like these matter when your both a bit smelly. As rob has had a car accident and many nose opperations since to repair his nose he has lost  alot of his sense of smell so i have to as nicley as possible let him know when he is shtinky. Yes im his social savour.

Off we went to a fantastic italian resturant for dinner on the main strip and lovely walk along the coast back to the caravan park.