Here's some great pictures of my dear Jennie's (and Alex's) beautiful wedding. It was SOOO fun! And absolutely, positively awesome to be hanging out with my best friends again.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Hello there! We're really sorry that it's been so long since we've last posted anything. We're here in Australia now, in Melbourne. Here's what we've been doing: we arrived in Sydney in February. We stayed there for a week, and I met many of Guido's awesome friends! We had a really great time there. Thanks again to Greg, who let us stay at his place for a few days.
Next, we headed north to Guido's parents place in Cawongla which is a small town about 800 km away from Sydney. It's beautiful there and I loved G's parents' house. Arnie and Trudy Gautsch were lovely people, great cooks, fun to talk to and generally an enjoyable pair. They also have their own art gallery in the nearby city of Lismore. We stayed in Cawongla for a few weeks and relaxed on their quiet 10 acre property, and I even saw a few wallabies around the house.
Guido was offered a job teaching by the Department of Defense in Melbourne, so off to Melbourne we went! It took us a couple of weeks to find a place to live, but we finally found a great two bedroom townhouse in Seddon, a nice suburb of Melbourne. We love our place, and Guido is really liking his new job. We're still getting to know Melbourne, but so far, we think it's a great city. There are a lot a great shops, cute cafes, and delicious, cheap restaurants. The beaches are nearby, and not too crowded (although it is fall right now). We're sure we'll grow to love it since it looks like we're staying here a while.
Here are more pictures!
Next, we headed north to Guido's parents place in Cawongla which is a small town about 800 km away from Sydney. It's beautiful there and I loved G's parents' house. Arnie and Trudy Gautsch were lovely people, great cooks, fun to talk to and generally an enjoyable pair. They also have their own art gallery in the nearby city of Lismore. We stayed in Cawongla for a few weeks and relaxed on their quiet 10 acre property, and I even saw a few wallabies around the house.
Guido was offered a job teaching by the Department of Defense in Melbourne, so off to Melbourne we went! It took us a couple of weeks to find a place to live, but we finally found a great two bedroom townhouse in Seddon, a nice suburb of Melbourne. We love our place, and Guido is really liking his new job. We're still getting to know Melbourne, but so far, we think it's a great city. There are a lot a great shops, cute cafes, and delicious, cheap restaurants. The beaches are nearby, and not too crowded (although it is fall right now). We're sure we'll grow to love it since it looks like we're staying here a while.
Here are more pictures!
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Langkawi
So when we left Koh Lipe, we took the Tigerline Ferry straight to another island called Langkawi in Malaysia. It's only about an hour away from Lipe, but the difference between the two islands is huge. Langkawi is a major port and a duty free island so many tourists, Malaysian and foreign(mostly European), come to the island to do their vacation thing and their shopping thing. Our first night there was not so good; we ended up sleeping in an old, dirty hotel room with cracks, paint peeling in the floor and on the walls, and a big piece of plywood for a window. It was pretty crappy (but only $8!). We were eaten by a ton of mosquitos (thank goodness no other big bugs were in there, or else I would've freaked), and woken up by what sounded like wrestling from the floor above us at 6 in the morning. Needless to say, we packed our stuff the very next morning, and moved to this beautiful, new, and clean hotel called the Sweet Inn. We didn't do much in Langkawi, other than more beach-y stuff. The beaches, Cenang and Tengah, were really nice. They were big and there seemed to be hardly any people on them. The sand was like light brown sugar. The views of other islands from the beach were beautiful, and made for nice sunsets. We had some good food, drank really cheap beer (60 cents!), and walked around a bit. So that's why we don't have many pics from there-- we didn't wanna bore you with more beach pics.
Friday, February 1, 2008
~Malaysia~
ello!
just a really quick hi from Guido. We're in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and will be for another few days. Somehow, we fogot to get a visa for our flight to Vientam on Monday and since immigration is closed over the weekend, we wouldnabeen able to get on our plane! After much research and blahblah, we finally decided to move our trip up to the 6th, which leaves us with a whole week in KL and only 1 day each in Singapore and Ho Chi Minh City. Jetstar also not so kindly decided to charge us 400 Singaporean Dollars for the change :(
Nevertheless, it's really quite exciting here. We're staying at a lovely little bohemian guesthouse called 'Le Village', full of paintings, colourful walls and nice people, a dead-hamster-throw away from Chinatown and 2 semi-conscious cat swings away from Little India. We've already been on the skybridge on the 41st level of the famous Petronas Twin Towers, the world's second-largest skyscraper. We were subjected to some 3D brainwashing in the shape of a corporate ad flick beforehand but at least, the whole episode was completely free of charge. Bliss! Well, kind of, but something different for a change.
We'll be in town till the 5th and will head on down to Singapore, where we might meet up with Willierose's Tito Tony. Stay tuned folks!
-Guido
just a really quick hi from Guido. We're in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and will be for another few days. Somehow, we fogot to get a visa for our flight to Vientam on Monday and since immigration is closed over the weekend, we wouldnabeen able to get on our plane! After much research and blahblah, we finally decided to move our trip up to the 6th, which leaves us with a whole week in KL and only 1 day each in Singapore and Ho Chi Minh City. Jetstar also not so kindly decided to charge us 400 Singaporean Dollars for the change :(
Nevertheless, it's really quite exciting here. We're staying at a lovely little bohemian guesthouse called 'Le Village', full of paintings, colourful walls and nice people, a dead-hamster-throw away from Chinatown and 2 semi-conscious cat swings away from Little India. We've already been on the skybridge on the 41st level of the famous Petronas Twin Towers, the world's second-largest skyscraper. We were subjected to some 3D brainwashing in the shape of a corporate ad flick beforehand but at least, the whole episode was completely free of charge. Bliss! Well, kind of, but something different for a change.
We'll be in town till the 5th and will head on down to Singapore, where we might meet up with Willierose's Tito Tony. Stay tuned folks!
-Guido
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