Did you miss me? Oh but it was such a luxury to take a little holiday like that! Unlike office workers and many others who clock off on holidays, it is hard for a blogger to ever “switch off”. It’s rather difficult to tear ourselves away from the reading, the writing and our obsessive addiction to Twitter etc. But for the sake of my brain, I find that it is important to take a little break from time to time and refill the cup so to speak. So I’m back, filled with summer sunshine (although I do not sit in it) and shiny new ideas.
Taking a little Christmas journey to Sydney was a welcome change of scenery, and an exercise in patience as we chose to do it as a road trip with the two girls. If I never hear the soundtrack to Barbie Island Princess again it will be too soon! The best thing about long car trips though, is the chance to really let your brain unwind and listen to itself with very little distraction. To consider all the things that for background noise, you may not have heard yourself thinking for the last year or so. It also gave me the opportunity to realise that I’m not terribly skilled in the act of dressing casually – a great new quest for this year.
We stayed at the Sydney Marriott Hotel in Circular Quay. It has amazing views and you can walk to just about everything. Miss Five was thrilled and wanted to know how she could organise to go and sing at the Opera House because she “is really quite good at singing and dressing up”!
There were several adventures into Chinatown for dumplings and Hello Kitty paraphernalia, as well as the eye opening experience of Boxing Day sales for Miss Five. We didn’t go to shop so much as to people watch and marvel at the insanity of it all. We swam (indoors), we attempted cocktail hour with small children (thank god they love blue cheese), we ate so much we couldn’t sleep and Mama even got one afternoon off for High Tea at the Observatory Hotel. But it was the early morning beach visit on the trip home that truly captured that very Australian of sentiments, “Ah the serenity…”
My lovely family as seen from the shady spot under my ubiquitous parasol.
So welcome 2010.
What adventures might you hold?
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Oh that Miss 5 sounds so cute! hehe a little opera star already!
It is indeed hard to ‘switch off’, I triend and failed ahah.
Aww glad to see you had a nice time and yes we missed you!!
XXASAB
Welcome back!
Welcome back!
That sounds like a lovely vacation, the beach looks positively lovely.
The beach does indeed look lovely – which one is it? Is it on the north side? I too had a big break from blogging when on holiday, enjoyed islands and beaches and giving my brain a break. Now to write it all up
Love your sunnies btw.
Sounds like you had a lovely holiday
Happy 2010 to you!
Looks like you had a lovely time out.
My fave pic is of your family on the beach, it’s like we’re sitting there with you…what a view!
It doesn’t get any better than that
<3 xxx
Happy Happy new year!! Well Done!!!
The sunnies… love em!!!
I am happy you had such a wonderful time. I am also VERY envious. While you were sunning yourself, I have been shoveling. 20 inches of snow, 12 F, and it is still coming down. I am going to try and get a few pics and post them on my facebook.
Happy New Year!
Lorie: I’ve never had a White Christmas, but then again I’m not sure how I’d feel about shoveling snow! What do you wear for that?!
Thanks!
Gotta love it!
So Spiffy: Love <3.xx And I love those sunnies too, they are disguising my post Christmas party eyes. ;P
PB: That is just what I was thinking when I took it – an SKM's eye view.
Esz: Aside from all the child related injuries.. yes!
Trashtastika: Actually this beach was on the way home. We stopped in at Eden – divine!
Rosie: It was about 9 in the morning so we almost had it to ourselves.
Chaigyaru: And to you! xx I was wishing I had more time in Sydney to organise to meet up with you. Next time.
Vanessa:
ASAB: I noticed that. Your Twitter stamina never fails to amaze me!
Rebecca: She performed for a number of shop keepers too! For some reason whenever the mood took her she just broke into song in pretty stores.
Yay another girl looking glam at the beach!!
looking great!
I want holiday too!!
Glad to hear you got some rest and relaxation! We’ve spent some time at the Harbour these hols (we’re about 25 minutes away, so not hard, lol), and the kids love it.
I love your parasol, so cute!
Bringing the glamour to the beach!
If you check out the Freelancers Fashion Blog….she is from Finland, and it is colder there than it ever get here. She did a post several days ago on the “Anatomy of Dressing When its REALLY Cold”. It is a wonderful post.
Sounds/looks like the most fun time! My holidays were also spent on the beach, lots of time with friends and relaxing. Ahh loved it I’m already planning my next holiday and I just got back to work *blush* x