Farewell

My time in Australia has come to an end-tear!  I never thought that I would be so touched by all of the people that I met. I can't say enough nice things about the people I met or the places I went.  This is an absolutely wonderful place and I will never forget it.  I was able to survive without my friends and family back home and at times it was very challenging but my new friends and family helped me pull through.  I learned a lot about myself while I was here and this was one of the most rewarding things I have ever done in my life.  I feel very blessed to have been given this opportunity.

Started out my day with a final fat burning session.  Florian surprised me with a bottle of French red wine and a picture of the two of us and a nice note that he wrote.  All of the trainers also gave me a card with very heartfelt notes written inside.  I can't say enough amazing things about this gym and the people that work there.  I worked very hard (as you can see my face is bright red) and got some wonderful results.  

Had a farewell happy hour at a rooftop bar.  

It was nice to see everyone and have a final Australian beer with the team.

This is my buddy Kyla.  She organized the happy hour.  She is a doll and I'm gonna miss our girl chats at work.  She had also organized a morning tea that the team attended and they gave me a really nice card that everyone signed and a boomerang for my desk back home.  

After the happy hour a few of us went out for supper at a Korean BBQ place.  It was fun because you got to cook your food at the table.  

I definitely took advantage of living here because in 6 months I drove 6148 km which equates to 3820.19 miles which is farther than driving from Seattle to New York-impressive I must say!!!  I did miss out on some major attractions so you know what that means....I'll have to come back:)

Thank you for reading my blog, I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed telling you of my weekly adventures.  

This now concludes my Australian Adventure!

Final Weekend Down Under

In case you didn't know, I LOVE BIRTHDAYS!!!!  My friend Phill was going to turn 50 so when I got the invite for his birthday outing I immediately contacted his girlfriend to say that I wanted to take care of the cake.  It would be my gift to Phill.  I stopped by a French bakery that I pass everyday on my way to work and placed my order.  I also had them write Happy 50th Phil on the top.  On Tuesday everyone received an e-mail from Phill with the details for Saturday.  He wanted everyone to come to his house early for dinner and drinks before we went out.  After reading the e-mail I had a mini panic attack because he spells his name Phill not Phil, which is what I put on the cake.  I raced back to the bakery and had them change it, they said it would be no problem because it was so far in advance.  Friday comes along and a few of us had decided to go to Phill's to decorate for Saturday.  I stopped into the bakery with my buddy Dave to pick up the cake before heading to Phill's and the cake said Happy 50th Phil on it.  I looked at the girl and said his name is spelled wrong, I came in and had them change it.  She said, oh yeah--I was the one that changed it, oops.  I said um...can you add another l please?  She said no, the cake is from the bakery there is nothing we can do.  I almost started to cry and then Dave says, breathe in, breathe out Tiffany--it's going to be ok.  After leaving I said...I need a drink Dave!  We hit up a happy hour and then headed to Phill's.  I was going to deal with the missing l at a later time. 

 

We went to town on the decorations--we had a fun time putting them up.  I was the tape girl since I'm so short and definitely can't reach the ceiling!  Phill was very pleased with our work:)

 

Debbie, Phil, Yadranka and myself taking a little break from decorating. 

 

Saturday arrived and I had gone to the store and bought some chocolate icing and tips so I could fix Phill's cake...what do you think?!

 

 

I told Phil the story and of course he said he would have been fine with it saying Phil because people spell it like that all of the time, but I said, well that's not the correct spelling and I wanted it to be right!  The cake was fantastic I might add and everyone loved it!

 

I went to my first burlesque show on Saturday night.  I didn't really know what to expect.  I have seen the movie with Christina Aguilera in it, but I've never seen the real deal before.  I was completely blown away.  They did a classy job and all of us really enjoyed it!  I think Phill had a wonderful birthday which is what counts:)

 

Woke up on Sunday and headed to go play Lawn Balls, which is an Australian thing apparently.  It reminded me of Bocce Ball.  There was a group of us that had lunch and then played all afternoon.

 

 

You played barefoot, talk about F-U-N!

 

Brad, Brian, Debbie and Dave on the sidelines.  The course as you can see it pretty big.  At the end of the day Brian was the big winner with Dave in a close second. 

 

I must say that my last weekend in Australia was a lot of fun!!!