Reality Bites

Reality has really been biting the big one in the last 10 days!

We have been home from our incredibly relaxing and completely indulgent cruise for 10 days, and I can tell you the readjustment has been tough!

Because it is a beautiful sunny Wednesday morning and I am just about to escape the incessant noise of compound saw's, hammer drills and some other very loud power tool that I am not even sure of the name of!  I will take pity on you and ease you into the reality around here by showing you the last part of our incredibly relaxing and completely indulgent holiday, before I show you the mess out my back door!

So enjoy the beauty of what I saw 10 days ago and I will be back to show you the progress and the mess, and a couple of cake jobs I have done in the last few days......

The Whitsunday Islands....

The last day cruising... 

Sydney just before dawn....

The best way to see Sydney, but not actually be here!

Renovation Revisited Part 2

So now that I have a better internet connection! to continue on......

All the clean fill and plumbing for the new laundry and bathroom was put in place.

And then packed in with a whacker-packer.  - this was very loud at 8am!

More wire mesh went on.

Then the very labour intensive job of carting all the concrete up a ramp system started.  It was hard work that morning, I really felt for my guys!

Look how lovely my new slab is!! 

Meanwhile, while all that was going on with the slab, the timber for the deck arrived. 

And we got the deck posts up and concreted in just before we left. 

You remember how I told you it was all hands on deck to get the place inhabitable? Well this is what it looked like just before we left.....

Clearly a whole lot more to be done!! but it is a start, and it is inhabitable!! 

Food Glorious Food

I absolutely promise that I am not going to turn into one of those people who take photos of their food!! But I just had to share this!!

This was the Easter brunch that we went to.  Clearly there were other things other than desserts, however they were the only thing I was interested in! I have been absolutely inspired to try create some of these beautiful things when we get home!!

 

Takes your breath away…

Anyone who knows the wonderful J and I will be wondering why we, of all people, choose to take a cruise to Queensland.  For us – non swimming and heat hating individuals – Queensland is not an obvious choice!  However we choose Queensland because we wanted to see the Great Barrier Reef, and no one can deny that there are some beautiful things to see up here.

We are now six days into our holiday, and before I return to catch you up on the renovations happenings that occurred before we left, I thought I would show you some of the things that we are seeing…….  

We snorkelled on the Great Barrier Reef!  Yes we all wore these ridiculous black stinger suites! I have a great picture of the wonderful J in his but he won’t let me put it up!