Crystals Life

My magical weekend

Crystal — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:40:15 +0000

We went to see the Harry Potter Exhibition at The Powerhouse Museum. Was great day out with some amazing views. The attention to detail that these films had was amazing!

Too bad we weren’t able to take photo inside the exhibit.

Jam makers unite!

Crystal — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:16:11 +0000

So since we brought back sooo many berries from our trip to Bright I decided to give Jam making a go. I made some delicious Raspberry, Boysenberry and Vanilla Jam.

Annie!

Crystal — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 04:15:36 +0000

Thanks to the Mercury Competition we won some tickets to the musical Annie! While the 1st of Jan was not the most ideal time the trip was still fun. We thoroughly enjoyed it! Some of those kids are just sooo talented.

Visiting Bright

Crystal — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:10:16 +0000

So between xmas and New Year we raced down to Bright to visit Ben/s family. I really felt too quick to be a holiday, but none-the-less I enjoyed the time.

I am so jealous of their beautiful vegie garden. I can’t wait til one day I finally don’t live in an apartment so that I too can grow delicious fresh vegies and herbs.

On our second day there we went 4WD. That was fun, there was a reason one of the paths was called snake road. This is the view from the top….

We had an opportunity to enjoy some of Victoria’s finest. This is from the Brown brothers winery. The little reindeer have red noses too, so cute!

Christmas Day

Crystal — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 04:40:55 +0000

The awesome Gingerbread house that Rachael made for the kids to decorate.

Christmas Lights

Crystal — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:35:00 +0000

VC Farewell

Crystal — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:35:31 +0000

UOW Farewell the VC in style, bling style.

Christmas Lunch at Harbourfront

Crystal — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:30:01 +0000

This year CEDiR celebrated Christmas with a nice lunch at the Harbourfront resturant. The view was delightful.

And we even saw a turtle swimming in the harbour. It’s the brownish dot in the photo….

Christmas gift time

Crystal — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:30:03 +0000

So this year instead of traditional gifts I went for something a little different. I purchased a pack of six nerf guns and some extra bullets. I packaged them up with some instructions and set them up on my co-workers desks. It took them two days to work out who it was

Julefrokost

Crystal — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:31:26 +0000

Julefrokost is a traditional Danish Christmas Lunch celebration. I feel so blessed to have such a multi-cultural experiences in my life.

So This lunch includes three rounds of food, each with a number of dishes in them. The first round was the fish course. In Denmark they have ready access to a lot of Herring so there were quite a few with a main ingredient of herring. Though there was also some salmon and trout. The second round included like a meat pate, something I didn’t go near. Then the third and final course was a cheese course, with a huge chuck of Jalsberg.

Along with what end up being a very nice day, we also played a Christmas game that was so much fun, even if a little insane. I am totally playing this one next year with a bunch of friends!