Easter Long Weekend

I've got the whole long weekend off, so great :) I know, I've been on a two month break but it's good to know that I dont have to work public holidays and I also get paid, awesoooooome.

Last night I caught up with my high school buddies,  Catherine, Annie and Milly. The original plan was to have dinner at Burwood but I'm so glad that we decided to go to Darling Harbour instead, because we had quite a surprise when there was a "Hoopla Festival" going on and we were able to have our night livened up.

The drive to the city was interesting...my nav was taking me on a route that I didn't want (ie taking me in a huge loop), but in the end we got there...eventually.

The night began with dinner at Blackbird Cafe, followed by fireworks and then we ended it with a side show at the Carnival of Dreams. The fireworks were amusing (well, to me anyways), there was so much smoke coming out from the fireworks that by the end of it, we could barely see the fireworks at all behind the huge cloud of smoke (I suspect cheap fireworks...).The sideshows were also a delight, I laughed quite a bit (and soon began to lose my voice...), I do love watching things like that. We payed for one show to watch a "Russian" contortionist who demonstrated the many uses of hoops in an infomercial. The second was outside of the carnival, of a street artist do some, what I think is a kind of mime. I found him hilarious.

I had a wonderful night with the girls. We're so lucky that the sky did clear up, since it was lightly raining earlier that day. I also tried to use my camera...but that failed. I've got a lot of learning to do.  

Later I will be going with Jenn to the Blue Mountains (she finally had some free time to see me, super excited).