tramways hotel

pete and i had dinner with mum and dad at the tramways hotel in north fitzroy on sunday night. it's a great pub - tasty burgers and it's beautifully fitted out. we did a bit of wedding brainstorming and took a wander over to edinburgh gardens to scout some locations.

usa - october 2012

peter and i took an amazing road trip through the states last october. i wanted to post everything but instead i'll do a highlights reel as i'm getting pretty behind with posting everything else that has happened since then! we drove from new orleans to new york, traveling through the states of mississippi, tennessee, kentucky, north carolina, virginia, pennsylvania and DC. it was easily the best thing i've ever done and what made it even better was getting engaged along the way...

if you'd like to see the rest of the trip photos (be warned, there's a lot), then they are all up on my flickr page.

 

saturday night

i had some old friends over for drinks on saturday night; it's been over a year since we've all caught up and it's not hard to see how we're all suddenly grown ups. vanessa brought her two year son, nat's about to leave on a 2 month tour of nepal and india and sarah had to cancel because she's just bought a house with her partner.

don't ask what's happening in the last photo; it's very strange.

saturday morning

saturday

wow we filled up saturday pretty well! after walking over to pearl oyster for breakfast (again) we met up with peter's family for nicholas's birthday. peter comes from a massive family so get togethers are always really fun because there are so many people. the weather was incredible - it felt like spring. i blew bubbles with the kids and peter played football with his brothers (in a tshirt no less!). some of my photos didn't turn out so well because the light was so harsh (i think there's a filter for that) so i changed them into high-contrast black and white in post processing. i think it kind of works! after playtime in the park we went back to the coburg football ground to watch the north ballarat roosters thrash the tigers followed by a few beers at the pub.

friday night

friday night i headed back into the city with ruth and emma to see william's new play the mcneil project. jim mcneil was an australian playwright who wrote several plays during the seventies while in prison for armed robbery. he has since become one of australia's most well regarded playwright. william played a young, naive law student who ends up sharing a cell with two hardened criminals. it was an excellent play. we sandwiched the play in between dinner at the italian waiter's club (one of my all time favourite restaurants) and drinks at kent st.