Douglas gets a routine

His routine consists of hanging out in my room all day

while I go to work during the week, and find things to do on the weekends. 

Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I don't find much to do. I haven't written a blog post simply because I don't have much to post about. Occasionally I'll go to the beach with friends, go shopping, play volleyball, have a cookout, go to dance clubs, go to jazz bars, etc. 

The reason I haven't post much is because I haven't taken a ton of pictures. Most of the time, the experience doesn't merit a photo, or I simply don't feel like taking one because I'm enjoying myself otherwise. I have a few pictures I can share though:

We had a pool competition after work! It was quite fun

Douglas likes Bronte Beach

This seagull was eyeballing my TimTams, too bad seagull, these Australian delicacies are mine

Douglas laments the fact that he lacks the arms and height to play volleyball

This is the building I work in, it's been lit up for the past two weeks for Vivid Sydney, a big light and idea festival that's two weeks long in Sydney

One of the Vivid sculptures. I didn't realize this at the time, but when you clap, the flower changes color!

Another vivid installation

Douglas and I rode the ferry to Manly Beach because they have volleyball nets there and everyone wanted to play beach volleyball!

I kept Douglas company while everyone played. The sand at Manly stuck to my feet more than any sand has before. I ended up having to scrub my feet to get it off.

The beach side of Manly. There was a festival called the Taste of Manly, it was quite busy

My dear friend Katy, she loves Douglas! She's one of my favorite housemates because we always eat dinner together and talk about the good things that happened during our day

I got my earlobes double pierced over the weekend! They're still sore, but I think they're healing well. Pro-tip: don't try and curl your hair afterwards, you'll catch the earring and then want to keel over in pain

It's the Harbour Bridge! In the distance you can see my work building from afar (it's on the right between the harbor bridge and the building closest to me)

Katy, Heiko, Michael, and Claudia looking bad ass walking into Luna Park, it's like a carnival/fair ground! I bought a corny dog (here called a pluto dog???) and was disappointed. The hot dog was red!!!! I think I'll stick to State Fair of Texas corny dogs

The opera house from the other side of the harbor

Underneath the Harbour Bridge

My weekends are my favorite time in Sydney. The week days have a tendency to run together, becoming monotonous and making me homesick. The weekends I'm so busy having fun I don't have time to be homesick. I think one of the reasons I haven't written in awhile is I just don't have the energy when I'm finished with my day to want to write all the time. It will get better once I start my travels because I'll be doing more and will have more to write about. 

Thanks for reading!