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hi everyone.
Its bank holiday monday for you all in england, so im sure you'll be loving the day off, or most probably nursing a severe hangover. Yesterday was my 25th birthday, and i'd like to say thanks to everyone for their cards, and kind messages, i really missed you all this year but had a great day none the less.
well i start from when we were back in brisbane. We had a lovely relaxing time there with our friends, and got to see the city gain, and really relax. we enjoyed the comforts of a home, and smashed our way through mart and dawns dvd collection. we even watched the lord of the rings triliogy, something iv been dying to watch again after reading the books in NZ. As you can see from my photos, the beard got a little wild and i was very tempted to leave it until i returned to england. That would have been so funny, but i would have returned with a beard, but without a girlfriend, as sophie didn't like it at all, as you can understand!!! So me and mart had some fun when shaving them off, but im all
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the city skyscrapers, the opera house, and the harbor bridge clean shaven now, and its done wonders for my beard growth. I used to have a lot of growth after a week, but its been a week since the shave, and it looks like i shaved 2 days ago. its great. so i have to shave less now, whih is every mans dream. Except for browny, who shaves once every 18 months. We did some more work around the garden for mart, and me and soph found ourselves digging, planting palm trees, and concreting. It was good fun, and a pleasure to help mart and dawn out, after all they did for us. We then flew down to sydney, with my surf board, and our clothes in plastic boxes, as we had left our big backpacks at darren and kates. All went smoothly and were now in sydney.
We've had a nice weekend, and have enjoyed spending time with darren and kate again. Sydney has been so cold though!!!! we have even had heaters on in the house, as we're all freezing, and we haven't exactly got our winter clothes with us!!! its been sunny, but really fresh. on friday we all went out for a nice italian meal,
followed by a few beers in the pub, where they had an acoustic night, and the guy playing and singing was really great, so it was a fun night. On saturday, sophie played for kates netball team, as they needed the numbers. She was nervous, as we haven't done any sort of exercise for months now, but she played really well and the team won, although on sunday, her legs were killing her.
Sunday was my birthday, and i woke to lots of cards that had been sent from home, and a nice birthday cake and song of happy birthday from darren and kate and soph. Me and soph then went into sydney city center for the day. We got on the bus to town and it was clear blue skys, but when we got off the bus in town it was raining. we were really annoyed as soph had made a picnic, and a trip to manly beach was what we had planned. So we just found a nice cafe and had a hot chocolate, and by the time we'd finished the sun was back out, thank god. We walked around the shops, and had our picnic sat
opposite the opera house. Its such acool city, and the sites are really nice. In the afternoon we got the ferry over to manly, where there was a lovely each and a nice shopping area, with loads of surf shops and markets. Soph bought me a nice shirt for my birthday from one of the surf shops. We sat on the beach and watched the surfers, but it was so fresh we didn't sit there for long. It was really funny though as i was messing around blowing my lips like a horse and we had a laughing fit for about 20minutes, and even got the camera out and took a photo. Immature i know, but funny, as you can see in the photo. The ferry ride back was really cool, as you get some amazing views of the city, the harbor bridge and the opera house as the ferry pulls into circular key, the ferry dock right in town. We then went out for a lovely chinese meal and a few drinks to finish of a lovely birthday.
So that is it really, we are getting ourselves sorted now for the flight to fiji, and are so excited.
we have been trawling the net and have booked accommodation in the place where celebrity love island was filmed, looks really nice, on the coral coast of fiji main island. we aee there for 7 nights and then we are not sure, we might not stay on any of the islands as it it is expensive and so we might just do some nice boat trips. So our next update will prob be from fiji.
love you all lots
love from us
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Steve & Mary
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The beard has gone!
What a brill birthday, glad you both had a great time and SO glad that beard has gone - Chloe said you looked like Grizzly Adams. Keep going with the fab photos. Hope the weather's good in Fiji, bank holiday Monday and it's absolutely pouring down, thank God we are off to Spain tomorrow for a couple of weeks! Take care. love from all of us. xx ps we came close to Bristol City playing in the Premiership but they lost at Wembley in the final play-off against Hull, just 1-0. Ah well, always next year.