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It may not be barbecue weather here, but we found the most American diner in town celebrating in style. They were going all out with balloons and flags and the whole staff of teenagers in costume (including Wonder Woman). We slid into a booth for our milkshakes and burgers with yellow mustard and pickles and [...]

Thanks to Lizzy’s official birthday we had a long weekend and decided to go see a little bit of Australia while we could. We’ve been wanting to get over to the Grampians mountain range and national park for a while, so we rented a car (which turned out to be the lovely color of a [...]

You’ve probably heard about all the crazy weather happening all over Australia this summer. The latest is of course Cyclone Yasi, and while it hit in the north of the country, it has pushed some pretty extreme weather down to Melbourne. After an unbelievably humid and tropical afternoon, I just watched SERIOUS storm clouds roll [...]

We went for a picnic in the Botanical Gardens one evening between Christmas and New Year’s Eve and Steve asked me. Obviously, I said yes. :)

As mentioned in the previous post, one of the Australia Day festivities was a massive convention of classic cars in the park. I’ve never seen so many old cars in such good condition and all in one place. It made the Saturday morning car group look puny. We took a gazillion photos, so we’ll post [...]

It’s Australia Day! And, that means obligatory barbeques. After checking out the air show and massive classic car convention held down the street, we met up with some friends in the park for our first Aussie BBQ.
The park was packed with groups making use of the public barbeques and enjoying the outdoor lifestyle. We managed [...]

The Botanical Gardens have become one of our favo(u)rite places in Melbourne and also doubles as our backyard. It’s pretty much the best public garden I’ve seen, and I love that we can just stroll on over there anytime we want. So here are a few pictures to share our gardens with you.

Well, we’re still not used to warm-weather Christmases, but we’re getting good at orphans’ Christmases. This year we spent the afternoon and evening with a great mix of Dubliners and Americans and our one English representative. Carol and Nat cooked an amazing meal complete with ham and turkey, potatoes, veggies, and generally a lot of [...]

We are having record amounts of rain here in Melbourne at the moment. But, on Wednesday when I got a text from a friend offering a ticket to see Jack Johnson at the outdoor amphitheater in the park, I didn’t care that it was raining cats and dogs. It ended up raining as much as it [...]