Wow. I haven't posted for quite some time. But there's a good reason for it. I've been in Sydney! Here's a bit of a re-cap.

Rhys, Eleonora and I flew up and stayed in an apartment in the south of Sydney. It was a pretty good location, close to Central station and a shopping centre. The apartment was cool too, plus the place had a sauna, swimming pool and spa.

We flew Tiger and despite hearing some dodgy stories, I found them to be totally fine. Everything was on time, no issues at all. The train in Sydney to get from the airport to the city (a 10 minute train ride) was a massive rip off though.

The first night, we did some food shopping and picked up some booze and then went and watched a movie (see below).

The following day we headed to the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House, just wandering around, sightseeing. Sydney totally blows me away every time I go. After that we headed over to the 'Hamish and Andy BYO Pool Party' where the queue to get in was getting huge. Still, we joined the queue and after a little while we got in and secured an awesome spot pretty close to both stages. What followed was a fair amount of waiting around and chilling. At one point I ventured out on a food finding expedition as we were all starving and returned with bountiful provisions. We were set and eventually the show got underway. It was really cool to see Hamish and Andy doing a live show, having been a fan of theirs for ages. Plus we got to see Powderfinger and John Butler Trio perform and we had a great spot. Megan Gale was there too, just kind of hanging around. The crowd there was big and filled with heaps of screaming teens. It seemed that any time any one mentioned the word 'Hamish', the crowd went nuts.

We were pretty exhausted, but that night we met up with Nathan, Lisa and Amelia, my Sydney buddies that I met in Europe. It was rad seeing them again, it's been a while. We went to Newtown and had dinner at the impressively named 'Thai-tanic' (best pun of the week) and then went to a bar for a quick drink. Called it a night early cos the next day was pretty huge.

'Where The Wild Things Are' (2009) directed by Spike Jonze

I thought this was great. Visually amazing, I loved the way that the wild things looked and the locations too. You could really pick the Australian landscape. The story is quite simple, there's not a lot of action, but the themes are actually pretty dark with the film focusing on the relationships between the wild things and the central character Max. The actor who played Max is a little bit annoying but still suited the character quite well. I'd like to see this again, it's almost hypnotic to watch.

I'll continue this re-cap in my next post.