May 11, 2010
Posted by Lauren
We’re in an episode of the Jetsons. A big long box floats towards us and halts. The doors open, pshhhh. People stream out, others stream in. The doors close again. A soft low hum whisks away the people mover. The momentary vacuum sucks a wisp of my hair, twirls it, and lets it fall back [...]
April 29, 2010
Posted by Lauren
Melbourne doesn’t hit you like the way New York does with its skyscrapers or Chicago does with its deep dish pizza.
When you think of Australia, what’s the first thing that comes to mind (besides kangaroos and crocodiles)? Probably the Sydney Opera House. Melbourne and Sydney have sustained a metropolitan rivalry ever since the latter surpassed [...]
April 21, 2010
Posted by Lauren
It was a Friday night. Not wanting to get too rowdy considering my early shift at work the next morning, Kirk and I decided to check off one of the things on our Sydney To Do List: taking pictures at Luna Park.
Luna Park is a tiny little amusement park with an iconic clown-face [...]
March 29, 2010
Posted by Lauren
A week before Kirk’s birthday I had bought and stashed away a new pair of boardshorts for him. Hiding with the shorts in the top cabinet of our wardrobe was a box of cake mix, a bag of sprinkles and twenty-six candles – a pair of them actually being the obnoxious candle numbers “2″ and [...]
