Visitors

Hey everyone, things been a little slow on here lately cause we have been way busy. We have now left toronto and are on our way back home! I am writing from Memphis, Tennessee, the south! But we will get to that later.

Before we left T.O we had a visit from some old friends, first of all Emma and Sean, and then a surprise appearance by poodle and mick!

We showed them all around Toronto, we went to high park.


And to our favourite bar, Sweaty Betty's.


That was a messy night alright! in fact they all were, we didn't actually see mick and poodle during daylight hours the whole time they were there.

We also went to see a band play at the famous horseshoe tavern! The band was Lucero and they were awesome!
The front man was a cool dude
So after a busy few days in Toronto we all packed up and headed to New York for a few days.

It was great weather when we were there so we hit central park.


Then we did as we knew best and hit some bars! The bars in America are fantastic and will be what I miss most of all.
This is my favourite place, in front of the jukebox. They have the best Jukeboxes here in the states.We also met up with another old friend and New York Local, Sarah T.
We had a good catch up before Pete whisked her away to Philly for the weekend. The drinks here are free poured, Sarahs drink is actually a bourbon and coke, but its pretty much just bourbon.
Needless to say the got the party started.



New York is the greatest and I can't wait to come back again! I'll catch up with the our journey to Tennessee soon.

Montreal

Hi everyone, Sarah here! Sorry it's been so long since our last post.

Last weekend we finally went up north to Montreal for the weekend. It's an awesome place but the weather wasn't quite so rad. We arrived to a miserable wet cold Saturday.

So the first day we didn't get up to much. Sunday it cleared up a little so we were able to go out and see the sights.

It is a very French city - their metro looks the same as the one in Paris!

We walked through the Old Port which was really pretty.

We stumbled across this xmas shop - it mustn't make much money this time of year but it was pretty all the same!

Then we went to the Notre Dame Basilica which was really impressive.

and it was even better on the inside! It was probably one of the top 3 churches we've ever seen I reckon. Way more impressive that we thought we'd find in a North American city that's for sure!

They had just finished there service when we got there.

The light was pretty bad so we struggled to get some good shots of it.

The stained glass windows were really beautiful.

This is the view standing outside the church - we tried to get the Quebec flag but it didn't really come out.

There is heaps of amazing graffiti in Montreal - I would even go as far to say that it's better than anywhere else we've been eg LA, NY, San Fran etc. Kim was loving it and we got lots and lots of photos (not shown here obviously)!

Then we enjoyed some of the local brews at a big pub in the St Laurent area.

This is our couchsurfer that we stayed with. For those of you who don't know what couchsurfing is, it's a website where you request to stay with people in any city in the world! It is completely safe and a great way to meet other travellers. Her name is Caitlyn and she was a great host!

I was still in my PJ's hence why I'm not in the photo!!!!

We loved Montreal and would've definitley gone there instead of Toronto if we spoke French fluently!

Hibernation

Whoahhh! its been over a month since I last wrote on here! We have been hibernating to avoid the cold.


Thruth is the internet got shut off at home so its a little tricky to get these posts up now, but fear not cause we will have some new photos up soon.


We haven't been up to much really, just saving for our trip home. For anybody who is interested, this is where we are going.


On April 16th we go to NY for a few days, we are spending some time there with Sean and Emma (Sarah's twin sis for those that don't know). After that weekend we come back, pack our things and jet out again on April 23rd.


We fly to Nashville for a couple of days before going to Memphis to look for elvis, then New Orleans and accross to Austin and San Antonio Texas, Yeehaw!


From there we fly to NZ for a few weeks and will return home around May 25th. Exciting times.


Now here is a reward for reading this far
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2BgjH_CtIA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_theqvT9fc

Feb happenings

Hi everyone,
Just a little post to say we are still kicking over here and haven't gone into hibernation just yet.
Our internet has been cut at home so its a little more difficult to post regularly, but I'll try.

Since I last wrote we had our coldest ever Australia day, tried to understand the superbowl, froze in -22 degrees below and are now enjoying some amazing positive temperatures.

I'll start with Australia day, we visited the token Aussie pub (its actually owned by a Kiwi). We were a bit dissapointed to be honest as they didn't serve any Aussie beer or have any aussie food. We had to make do with fosters!

There was a decent turnout for a Monday night, and we did our best to display the proper (lack of) Aussie culture.

The camera didn't come out until late in the piece so you will have to excuse the quality of the snaps.

Squinting.
After a tough week at work following that night out we were rewarded with a weekend of out of season weather. It was a sweltering 4 degrees and sunny. But after living in -10 and lower for the past month it seemed like summer. The snow was even warm enough to build a snowman.
We names him Boris.
After Boris was built we headed out to watch Americas biggest sporting event. The superbowl.

At least attempt to watch it, the game doesn't seem to make much sense and is pretty boring. I think I was into more than Sarah was. There was an Australian playing for Arizona.
This was Sarah after 4 hours of American football. Not happy, and a little tipsy.
In the end Pittsburg beat Arizona, but at least it was close. At least as far as I could tell.

This weekend our run of luck continues with the weather, we had a -22 day on Thursday, but yesterday was 8 degrees and today is 1. So the streets are alive and it feels really warm.
Yesterday we went out for lunch at the marriot, which was cool because the restaurant is built into the wall of the Rogers Centre, Torontos baseball stadium.

They were setting up for some carshow, but it was still cool to see what its like from there.

The food was good too!

Anyways gotta split, hope everyone is doing ok. Can't remember if I have mentioned this but, we will be back in NZ on May 10th and in Brisbane on May 24th. So keep the calenders free and get the xxxx on ice!

Laters