Day 9: Kirribilli Club

On Saturday night Mark and I decided to go to the Kirribilli Club at Lavenders Bay for some seafood and cocktails. We had a lovely night out and enjoyed the view of the harbour bridge, luna park and lavender bar. Great value for a top spot. The pictures aren't the best quality but give you an idea of the view we had.

Day 8: Radio Cairo and a Mystery Semi Solved

So this morning I took a better look at the Bond St herb weirdness. (The picture I took today really shows it is on the street as well as the footpath - on the street is tomatoes and things). I found a sign saying this is some temporary art project and that the display has the ability to disappear and reappear at odd times of the day. Well maybe it does but every day I go to work (which is any time between 8 and 11am) it is there and has been for MONTHS. Seems like a lousy (& lazy) art project to me! Although it has gotten 2 blog posts out of me so maybe it is successful. Anyhoo, case closed.

Mark and I had both had busy busy weeks and particularly busy Fridays. We both thought we would have to work back on Friday night but surprisingly somehow made it out of there by 7. So we headed for a yummy dinner at Radio Cairo and some cocktails to unwind. We had Afro fries and Cajun popcorn (baby shrimp) for starters and then Moroccan lamb and a tagine of salmon and prawns for our main with some roshi. Delicious! Radio Cairo is a mixture of African/Caribbean/Maldivian/Sri Lankan kinda food - it is tres excellent. I don't know anyone who has gone and hasn't absolutely raved about it. Book ahead too - we only got in at short notice with some weaseling ;)

Day 7: What the?

So every day on my way to work I walk past these weird herby looking plants on the side of the street. Just some random pots sitting on the street and on the footpath. They appeared a few months ago and I thought it was temporary, but they've never left. I'm not sure what the idea is - are passes by suppose to pick off the herbs or what? Do homeless people come and get them to spice up their maccas? If someone knows what the heck this is, please let me know! It's on Bond street, right across from Australia Square.



And as a bonus, a picture of my soya mocha and macaroons from Bacco (v good coffee and yummy treats!) from an afternoon tea break to celebrate a work colleague's birthday. Please do not read day 2 about my new years resolutions right now! (I did have salad for lunch at least).

Day 6: Bavarian

Tonight I went to the Bavarian Bier Cafe with some friends to farewell our good friend Kim who is on her way back to London. I hope you have a great flight home Kim! You might notice that I forgot to take the photo until I had almost finished my meal. I had chicken schnitzel (sp?) and a mohito followed by an Apple Strudel cocktail for my dessert!

Day 5: Messy Desk

I'm back at work today (I was off sick yesterday). Thought I would post a few pics of my very messy desk. It's actually relatively clean at the moment as I got a new laptop and docking station back in December and had to clean my desk for that. Sometimes it looks like a terrible mess but only a few times a year do I crack it and actually clean the whole thing (unfortunately for my co-workers).

Day 4: The Spit

I'm feeling a little off today so not much to share from today. So instead I'm sharing a pic taken on Saturday night down at The Spit. I love it down there. I almost got married down there which would have been lovely as my parents were married there, but the venue we were interested in was going to be a little bit too cramped so we went to the stunning Watsons Bay instead for our big day. I digress. So on Saturday night, Mark and I went for a lovely dinner at Orso which has a great view. We had the seafood platter which was a delicious feast ($80 pp). I particurlaly enjoyed the mango salsa on the oysters and scallops!

Day 3: iphone

So today I braved the stress that is Warringah Mall in the holidays and got an iphone. When these things first came out I thought I would never get one. It just didn't appeal. But now as time has gone on, I've flipped around just the way the qwerty keyboard does on the iphone. (well I guess I am now a serious blogger right and need 24/7 world wide web access?? something like that...). Now the challenge is mastering the damn thing. I've already cracked the shits with it at the Telstra store when I found out that not all of my contacts came across and demanded the girl put my sim back in my old phone. Serves me right though as Ive just had the stress of trying to work out actually how to get a sim into an iphone. And on top of that for some reason I didn't get the "SIM eject tool" that is suppose to come with it. Luckily youtube and a wooden skewer came to the rescue. I can feel my blood pressure rising already with this set-up business. I have a feeling I will love it when I'm up to speed though (I better since I'm on a 24 mth plan)!

Day 2: Power Living

So it's a new year and the new year resolutions have come out in full force. One of my 2010 goals is to get fit and healthy again after putting on A LOT of weight in 2009. So today I started a 10 day introduction to Power Yoga. Now if you thought yoga was nice and relaxing - think again. I almost died today and have never sweated so much in my life. I now understand why the carpet felt so wet at the studio. I did a 75 min session and only just made it. I plan to go again tomorrow and then see what I think at the end of the 10 days. I also have boot camp coming up, not to mention my normal gym membership so some of these things should come off! Need to get my fitness groove back! Pic of the studio rest area in Neutral Bay - I didn't really think it's appropriate to take a photo of the scantilly clad yogis ;)

Day 1: Happy New Year

Hello my lovlies

Welcome to my new daily photo (after all a picture tells 1000 words) blog. That's right - 365 days of Ellis! I can't promise to update this daily but I will try my best. I'm hoping this will be an interesting journal of my life in 2010 and on my not so interesting days I hope to at least have a good photo to share and discuss with you (which is half the reason I love the idea of a photo blog). I'm feeling very positive about the year ahead and hope to be able to share lots of great things with you as time goes on. I think its time to upgrade my camera too, so stayed tuned for that.

Well I wont waste all of the ink on my intro... On to day 1!

Mark & I brought in the new year at Clark Island, a small island east of the harbour bridge, along with our friends Kel, Terry, Kim, Amy & Paul (and some other friends of friends). It was a fantastic spot to bring in the new year. We were right in front of the most eastern fireworks barge so it felt like we were right underneath (we were I guess) the exploding fireworks. Sydney sure knows how to bring in a new year! Most impressive! Clark Island itself was so nice - so relaxing being on an exclusive island with on our own - great views and plenty of room to spread out. We had a dedicated ferry to take us there and back when we were done at 1am. Hassle free - just the way I like it! We were able to bring one bag each too - so we were able to set up a lovely picnic and sit back and enjoy the glorious view of Sydney Harbour (a view I will never get sick of!). At $160 pp it wasn't cheap, but I enjoyed this so much I will definitely do it again. I hope you enjoy a couple of photos from last night/this morning.

E x