Category: Sydney

We got the room pretty much finished today! Due to rain we couldn’t paint it all, but it is probably 85/90% complete which is a great achievement and feels great!

We finished this then went out (after the rain stopped!) to the centre where we met some friends and went for a walk.

We got some Mexican food which was incredible AND cheap! 

We walked to Darling Harbour and it was beautiful! The sun started to go down and created some amazing views! We saw a lot of former military boats including a submarine and 2 pirate style boats.

We walked the train station and got back, then we had to pack. We leave at 6am tomorrow, so we had to get everything sorted.

We had some carrot cake and a hot chocolate and then we’re off to sleep!

Oh! Curtis got a job! 👊 Woo! 

Bye!

Mr & Mrs Hale 

We started out the day again with some painting. We did a 3rd coat on the skirting boards and door frames and painted the door. We then moved onto the walls, which we did a coat on pretty quickly with a roller. We touched up the outsides with a brush and it was looking pretty good pretty fast!

Once we finished, we got showered and went onto the train to the centre where we went to the Lindt Cafe.

We took a while to decide and we chose to share a chocolate cheesecake for food and Curtis had a dark chocolate mocha and Kim had a chocolate milkshake. It was all delicious!

We left the Lindt Cafe and went straight to the Harbour Bridge. We walked along the bridge for a few minutes and took in the outstanding view of the opera house! We also noticed the bridge shaking with all the cars driving on it, which was unnerving! 

We left the bridge and took the train home. When we got back, Curtis weighed the hockey bag so we can add it as baggage for a flight and then Kim made some dinner. 

For dinner, we had a chicken and vegetable pasta which was scrumptious! 

We finished the evening with some TV! 

Tomorrow is our final day in Sydney and we’ve had an awesome time! 

Bye! 

– Mr & Mrs Hale 

We had a small lay in and then got right back to painting.

It was raining outside, so we were unable to complete the door painting, but we did do a 2nd coat on the skirting boards.

We painted for a few hours and then we got showered and Curtis had a Skype interview so had to get looking all smart.

Curtis had his interview and Kim started cooking whilst he was interviewing. 

Kim made an amazing roast dinner. This was a whole chicken, roasted veggies, gravy & Yorkshire pudding. This was topped off with a homemade carrot cake.

We finished the evening with some much needed, but boring, admin. 

Bye! 

– Mr & Mrs Hale 

We were up and out this morning as we had a friend to meet in the morning.

We didn’t have breakfast but decided we would get some in town.

We looked up the train and there were none! We then found out that some trains were not available due to track works, so we had to take replacement busses.

We got to the bus stop and luckily they were free busses, so we hopped on it to Central train station. We were sat directly behind a guy who was shouting on the phone for most of the journey, which was incredibly loud for 10:00!

We got to the station and hopped on a train to Circular Quay. We got to the station and went to McDonald’s. We had a McMuffin and a drink whilst we met with Curtis’ friend Ricki.

We then moved from McDonald’s to the Guylian Cafe where we got some fancy coffee! Kim got a coconut hot chocolate and Curtis got a mocha it was tasty! We sat and chatted for a while about everything then we left the shop and went for a small walk.

We had to part ways with Ricki and we went to get some things for Curtis. He had to get some shirts and shorts, so we went to H&M. After H&m we found somewhere for Curtis to get a haircut and then we had to get the bus back to the house which meant walking and waiting in the rain for a while!

We got back and then went to the shop. Kim then made some great food! We had sausages, mash, peas and mushroom & onion gravy.

We watched some TV then we’re off to sleep.. Another fun day tomorrow!

Bye!

– Mr & Mrs Hale

We woke up nice and early, had breakfast and sanded a few things that we needed to sand and then got right on with painting.

We needed to clean off the part we were painting first, so we did that and then pained the door frame. 

We spent about 3.5 hours painting and it was very cathartic and quite fun to paint!

We finished with painting and Curtis watched ice hockey. 

Once this was done, we watched some TV and then had to pop to the shop for some dinner items. There was a lovely view of the sky with the sunset, too!

We got back and our host had made burritos so we ate those and they were delicious!

Short one today, but fun day tomorrow! 

Bye!

– Mr & Mrs Hale 

We started the day by sanding the filled holes and then we re-rilled the holes. We had to wait for 3 hours, so instead of doing that, Curtis watched ice hockey and Kim watched TV before we went out on the train to the centre to meet our friends.

We met our friends from home and went to a Thai restaurant. The restaurant was cheap but wasn’t bad food at all. 

Kim had a massaman curry and Curtis had a pad Thai. 

We finished our food and were completely stuffed, then we went to our friend’s airbnb apartment then we had a few drinks whilst chatting about random stuff. 

We then took the train back and got back pretty late but we had a great time.

Bye!

– Mr & Mrs Hale 

We woke up at a decent time to get some work done!

We started by doing some filling. The walls had previously been painted with a lot of holes in, so we worked our way around to fill the holes.

We filled the holes and then had to leave it for 3 hours to dry before sanding, so we left and took the dog for a walk and got some toothpaste and a coffee!

We got back and relaxed for a bit and then went back to the room to sand it. 

We sanded for a while and then applied a second coat of filler to the holes as well as finding new holes!

We cleaned up and then had some dinner. We had mushroom, leek and zucchini pasta with salad and it was tasty!

Bye!

– Mr & Mrs Hale