photos: manly -- clifton gardens -- balmoral

photos: a walk on the beach with katie

photos: party of five (5th place out of 21 trivia teams, most of which were much bigger than us!)

photos: my bachelorette spectacular!!

quicko: how long?!?!

I thought I'd reached my pinnacle of amazement with the length of Australian holidays ages ago.  Nope.  Set a huge new record tonight:  in casual conversation, an Australian mentioned she'd once gone traveling around the world on holiday (are you ready for this?) for three years.  Evidently she'd picked up the occasional odd job here and there, but aside from that, she didn't work for three years.  Seeing as we'd just met, I really couldn't ask "How the heck did you afford that?!  And if you could afford it, how the heck did you justify it?!"  The conversation then turned to Morocco (go figure).

photos: manly and shelly beaches

photos: luna park