You, Me and Dupree

We’ve officially named our guest room “Dupree’s Room” inspired by the movie after Dirk Brown (one of David’s close friends and groomsman in our wedding) commented on how he never wanted to leave our humble abode. Dirk arrived on Friday and will be staying with us while exploring Sydney for the next couple of weeks. We’re happy to have Dupree stay for a while! It’s so gratifying to have friends travel from the other side of the world to see us and experience our new home!

Dirk has already been subject to a small dinner party and now he’ll be deep in the thick of living with us while we entertain as we have 11 people over for a dinner party on Saturday! The theme is “Master Chef – Thai Night.” We’ve taken to having cooking competitions with some friends – this is round three and everyone is taking a course. We’re making curried apricot pork – a real winner in this household. Hopefully it will hold up to our Master Chef friends’ expectations! 

We went to see Jeff Dunham at the State Theatre in Sydney last night (www.jeffdunham.com and www.statetheatre.com.au ) If you’ve never experienced Jeff Dunham you have to check him out – he is SOO funny! We were rolling for most of the night! Even knowing most of his jokes (because the CD’s were already released in the US before we left – it’s all new to the Aussies!) we still laughed hysterically. The State Theatre was really interesting in itself – it reminded us both of The Fox in Atlanta but it seemed to be a little better cared for. Ornate wall decorations, art and elaborate ceilings were the main focus, along side the interesting architecture. There’s a grand sweeping horseshoe shaped staircase in the main lobby – so beautiful!

Manly hosted a surfing festival this weekend. I was originally really excited to attend because I know so little about surfing but after watching a couple of events I can see why I’ve never been sucked into the sport – how boring to watch! You stand there for 20 minute intervals waiting for the 3-4 surfers in the heat find their perfect wave and do some tricks for all of about 5 seconds. I guess perfect waves are few and far between! It was cool to have a new experience but I think I’ll stick to below water sports ;)

Here are some updated pics of our apartment now that our stuff has arrived!

~LAA