Mudgee Wine Fest

 What better way to finish out the day, and weekend, then with a wine festival!! After a long day of soccer, we headed down to the beach for the Mudgee Wine fest. Yes, the beach and wine!! The kids (and Doug) enjoyed building sandcastles  while mom, Pat and I tasted lots of different wines!!

Sienna's Gala Day

 What a fun (and long) day of soccer!! The Blizzzards have played so well all season and it was so great watching them all improve and grow closer. Sienna amazed me. She had never played soccer before but she was easily one of the best players on the team. She tried all of the positions (even goalie!) and improved with every game. She was always all over the field, usually in exactly the right spot at the right time! SO proud of my gal!!

Big save! She only gave up 1 goal

Bridge & Brangaroo Walk with Pat

 On our tour of showing Pat around Sydney, we walked across the Harbour Bridge, through an area called Barangaroo, shopped the markets at The Rocks, and tasted some kangaroo in Darling Harbour. It was a beautiful day for a long walk and some shopping. Barangaroo is an area along the water where Doug's new work building is. The kids absolutely loved seeing Papa's office (hope Pat did too!)!

Very cool art pieces all along Barangaroo

What a view from the office

When in Australia...

Not sure she's very impressed with the kangaroo

Pat at the Zoo

 It was off to Taronga Zoo to show Pat the great Sydney view and our favorite Australian animals. The littles are in their element here. There is always lots of pointing, yelling and asking questions! Hopefully Pat liked the zoo as much as we do!

Pat at the Blue Mountains

 We've been to the Blue Mountains a few times now but this was the foggiest it's ever been! It almost looked like smoke coming up from the trees and at one point you couldn't even see most of the mountains. We also happened to walk by the aboriginal center on our way back to the car. We have wanted to see an aboriginal dance/performance since we moved here so we were so excited! As soon as the show started however, Jonah got really scared and started yelling and crying. I had to rush him out of the theatre, but not before we disrupted the whole show! It turned out to be a really good show too. Ha, life with kids!

Pat at Featherdale

 Back at Featherdale to let Pat mingle with the local Australian animals. The koala on picture duty today was Archer. He was actually voted Australia's cutest animal a few years ago! He was super cute and seemed to really like Pat. It was almost like he was talking to her! And there was a beautiful momma wallaby with a big baby hanging out of her pouch that spent a lot of time with us!