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Reporting directly from Abu Dhabi
Hi guys, I know its been days since I’ve been in here but as I am leaving for some weeks to Europe, I wanted to spend all my time with Ambrose!
As I am writing this I am sitting in a cafeteria in Abu Dhabi Airport, after a 14 hour flight…. That was packed by the way!
Luckily for me I slept most of the flight, wold be crazy otherwise I think hahaha.
My next flight, to Amsterdam, is in about 45 minutes so I thought I take this time and tell you a little about the last couple of days in Sydney.I am just gonna be gone a couple of weeks so I haven’t even made a big deal about this trip. The love of my life on the other hand, he made sure we had some great days. As always.
He took Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of from work. He asked me to pack and the first surprise was that we would spend some days before my flight (on Wednesday) in a apartment hotel. We got an amazing corner room, floor to ceiling windows, overlooking, well most of Sydney 🙂We just spent time being together, eating my favorite stuff in beautiful cafeterias in the sun.
Swimming ( in winter !!) at Bondi beach.
And On Tuesday…he surprised me with a – whole day whale watching safari boat. More about that later. All I can say is that it was more than we could hope for, we saw around 30 whales !!! That is beyond luck.I need to start heading towards my gate now. Don’t know how far away it is and I don’t feel like missing it and get stuck at this (sorry) boring airport.
I leave you guys with some pictures of our days.
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Sorry for such bad update! And sorry again for today’s blog because its just gonna be a short one! As I am leaving for a few weeks in just a couple of days, I just want to spend some time with Ambrose. Today we both slept in, well needed, especially for Ambrose who has been moving,commuting and working like crazy this last week.We woke up, met up wit Leonard and Nick for breakfast at Coast. Coast is usually packed and we always have to stay in line for a while, fortunately today we got a table and our order in straight away. The place was still packed but I guess we just got in on a perfect time-sloth I always take the vegetarian quinoa bowl whenever we are at Coast. Today I tried some Moroccan pork bun with avocado and things…not as good as my good old quinoa bowl. Well, you gotta try to learn 🙂
After a long breakfast me and Ambrose drove to see Rachel and one of my favorite human – Xavier. Whom we have not seen in over 2 months! We were there for a couple of hours. And I of course used his cute little squishy face to take some snapchat. This child is just too cute, I honestly cannot handle. When you spend time with him it gets worst! That face, his chunky body mixed with his adorable personality….holy shit. Tooo much cuteness!
In the afternoon we drove even further to see Ambrose’s sister Anastasia and Adam. I wanted to get to meet them too before Europe.
Now back home, we are about to get to bed. I am just gonna try our a new relaxation meditation before going to sleep. These last days I had way too much in my head then I would prefer. Way too much….
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trivia night with sister2sister
Hours before all the gusts arrive. Prep, prep, prep
Emotional speeches. Hearing what some of these girls have been trough was not easy to hear. Made me even more proud to be part of Sister 2 Sister. Such an amazing thing Jessica has built up!
Bidding on some of some of those amazing things such as diamond necklaces, resorts, whiskey, etc. Forced Ambrose to pose for me all night 🙂
Winner of the diamond necklaces!
One of my favorite part of the night was when the actual trivia started. Every table was involved which was so much fun to watch and participate in. Here is part of our table which was big and little sisters, volunteers, staff, the founder Jessica, newsreader Jacinta Tynan, and of course, Ambrose! <3
Prep-talk before going on stage.
One of the winner tables from last night.
Auction started and everyone was trying to get their hands on the goodies.
My absolute favorite part of the night! We are all exhausted and had too much energy in our bodies I think. Jessica said that we could take some balloons with us. I am a huge fan of balloons, strange thing to be excited about but nevertheless, I am! I took almost ALL of the balloons with me. Forced them into our cab with Ambrose , Marnee and Aliye.
Great night. Thank you to everyone involved!
Well today I decided to spend my whole day chilling. I woke up early to drive Ambrose to the train (had the biggest smile on my face when I saw all the balloons in the garage this morning! ) back at the house I did my morning meditation.
Made myself some tea and spent the rest of the day in bed studying NLP. I don’t ever remember spending a whole day in bed, but its so damn colt! And my feet are seriously damaged from wearing high heals from 11 am to 11pm yesterday. I was in charge of taking all the pictures and handling all our social media for our trivia night for Sister 2 Sister yesterday. Maybe not the best idea to wear high heals…….
Anyway, that has been my whole day, had no food and way too lazy to get out and buy some so it was biscuits and tea in bed. I never take the time to read anymore. So glad I did today because I have learned so damn much about our brain and habits and values and beliefs. I am going to share with you guys. Just not tonight, I just want to go back to reading more more more 🙂 🙂
xx
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lecture at UNSW
Yesterday was a very very long day. Holy Moly…. Woke up around 5 am, hoped into the car with Ambrose. Did a long but productive day at the Sister 2 Sister office. After I took the train back to North Sydney to meet up with Ambrose and some of his colleagues. They were going to a lecture on at UNSW on Housing, Affordability and Economics something…….
They are interested in this kind of stuff. I was there for the free food, drinks and of course, getting a ride home!I did enjoy the speaker though. Cant remember his name, but it was a professor from Scotland and as most Scottish I met, they are funny and charming people.
It was a great day. I have missed being super busy like this. Since the accident where I hurt my neck I’ve been less able to do as much. So it was good. But I have to say, with the move and a long day like that I was tired as hell once we arrived back to the house. I went to bed straight away and slept from 10pm and woke up midday. Usually I get up around 6am!?!
Today I took it easy, I went for a walk, had a coffee. Came back and started unpacking, washing, and cleaning and dusting. In a very slow pace, I’ve decided a long time ago to eliminate stress ( as much as possible ) from my life, and I think I am doing a great job !
Now its pasta bolognese and State Of Origin in front of the fireplace. Just went of the phone with my mum who lives in Barcelona, she told me they are sweating because its around 35 degrees over there. Here in Australia we have like 10 degrees, so we are all really enjoying the fire 🙂
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Breakfast in Surry Hills
After all this moving, packing, lifting I have to say, my body is in need of a massage. This morning I could not find any of my toiletries. I then remembered that I had left some of our products in the bathroom, and the cleaners must have thrown them out! Oh well, not much to do about it now, even if it sucks a little bit.The sky is still gray but the city ( I am having breakfast in Surry Hills before going to volunteering ) is busy and I love that.
I thought I start the day a bit still because I have a full day ahead of me. Woke up 5:45, going to be at the office from 9 to 5 and the going back to the flat in North Sydney for a task, meeting up Ambrose and to drive to The Sydney University for a lecture. We are going to be home around 10PM. Looooonnnggggg Day!Okey one hour at the time, first stop, Sister 2 Sister. xx
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Luxury glamping
Good morning!
I am sitting and getting some work done at our rooftop while the appartment is getting cleaned out. Today at 4:30 pm we are dropping off the keys. I am so grateful for our time at our home, wish the next person living here the same lovely experience.Last night as I mentioned earlier was some kind of “Glamping” hahaha. A luxury version of camping.
The whole place was emptied out so as you can see we made the best of it. By far, one of my favorite and most memorable nights at our home. One of the things I love and admire abou Ambrose is his ability to make every situation cozy, romantic and always filled with laughter. We had a very late Ramen lunch so we just got some small stuff like oysters and piece of fish tacos for dinner. It was great.Got to run off to lunch with Ambrose now. Paying the cleaning company, signing some papers in the afternoon and we are good to go! Wish everyone a great rest of Monday, and I see you guys soon.
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Danks street produce merchants
I have no idea if I have mentioned it before because its been alot these last few day BUT we are moving from our apartment in North Sydney. Yesterday the moving truck came and the day was just focused on getting it done!
We have both moved quite a lot so we got it all done in 4 hours which is pretty great. With moving help of course!After we had unload everything we decided to be done with it all for a while. We drove back to our now empty apartment, took the longest shower and went out for dinner. We wanted Rio Noodles, the number one Ramen place in Sydney, but the line was about 20 meters of people waiting just to get in so…no thank you!
Instead we went to, what must be The Best Thai around this area. Its called Triology and its located on the main street ( where all the restaurants are) in Neutral Bay. So damn good every time! We had red curry with duck and crispy pork belly Pad see ew.Now its Sunday, we woke up early at Ambrose family house and drove straight in to the city. First stop was breakfast at
Le Renaissance Patisserie, french style, which for me is coffee and croissant. Fantastic start of the day if you ask me 🙂After that we strolled around the Danks street produce merchants which is filled with local produces. Amazing place!
We decided to have a “picnic” of tapas our last night in our house, and this market had all the great stuff for it.
I am already excited about this. We have no furniture at all so we are going to sleep on a mattress on the floor. We have candles, a picnic and maybe a movie on our laptop. Late night swim at the rooftop pool.
Its gonna be great!!
Thai food at its best.
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best bakery in north sydney
For 2 days now I have been going to this bakery in North Sydney called St.Honore’, that we found out is the bast bakery around this area. And both days I get there, not super early but around normal breakfast time, and everytime they sold out of almond croissant! Everytime!I have not had one of those in like, years so it had to be the damn almond croissant, I just could not get myself to have some other unhealthy thing when all I wanted was the croissant. The girl who worked there actually advised me to call and reserve one (!) hahaha And like a true cookie monster I called them this morning and had one put aside for me.
That and one espresso while listening to the rain outside the window was my nice start of this day 🙂If you want to try it our for yourself reserve one here.
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