Night out at Slide cabaret for the official launch of the new charity, Softacare.
Wicked, wicked performances, good food, lots of white wine, good chat.
And rounded it all off at the Boat Shed, natch!

Jess and I went to see Cat Empire at the Metro last night. There will be way smarter, cooler, less hungover people who can comment on the music and performance I’ll just tell you that it was an amazing gig with a lot of energy, and outstanding vocal and instrumental sounds.

Haven’t done many updates but that’s because I’ve been out ALL the time :)

It’s been a lot of 1, 2, 3 am finishes, I’ve met heaps of cool people, and, the best news – it’s really starting to come together. The lessons are great for bedding in basics, and building on the moves that I know. Plus it’s good to practice with the same people without reading a new lead. Also we do Rueda which is too much fun to even start talking about.
But the social dancing is where the magic is really happening. A couple of huge break throughs this week: this might seem like an odd thing to say at this stage, as in a bit late, but I felt like I got the rhythm better than ever before, it felt great. And, I was out one night and this guy who I see out all the time asked me to dance – this alone was an achievement to me cos he seems pretty advanced to me – but the best part was the we killed it on the dance floor.

We all went to Hugo’s Manly for Sarah’s leaving drinks, sniff sniff.

I’m pretty sure this was the same night that I went to last year. Mostly it was salsa but there was also bachata and merengue. It was a lot of fun, bout 40 people, and there were people from the last dance night, the classes I’ve been to in Manly and the class last night. I practised some of the steps from last night, although I had forgotten the footwork, but mostly I tried to practise the cuban salsa body movement – hips and shoulders. That …

Following two-ish weeks in Bang Wan, I had two-ish weeks with Lise seeing ‘the rest’ of Thailand. With no agenda at all we could have gone anywhere and yet Bangkok was magnetic for us, we just kept coming back.

I know it’s a big messy, metropolis city. I know the tourism isn’t always savoury. And yet I also know that we had the most fun, easy time here, both sight-seeing days and smashed up nights out.

No-one is more surprised than me but I’d recommend a trip to Bangkok in a heartbeat!

Jack Johnson played The Domain in Sydney. It was a beautiful Sydney day: hot, clear, and Oprah’s in town (don’t ask…) For a gig with such a low key, relaxed vibe it was completely captivating. Jack was from-the-heart, he was also really funny. The absolute highlight was when fireworks went off over Sydney Harbour and either complemented the gig or distracted from it, I thought it was beautiful.
(thanks to Emma for the photos)

The time had come for some Manly girl action….

Kylie, Sarah, Michelle and I got together for some warm up drinks chez moi, then Hugos for lychee martinis, pizza and polenta chips, rose (makes me crazy…), espresso martinis and more rose.

A completely awesome night.

A few days in Melbourne. Business and then pleasure.

A sampling of coffee shops.

Some outstanding restaurants.

Awesome partying.

Even though it was a completely rubbish decision of Fernando’s to move back to Chile, it did mean that we had an excuse for a mid week get together.
There was gluten free pizza, a truck load of wine and very pooly made leaf tea.
There was salsa, merengue and free styling.
There was yoga, bar bottle tricks and babushka dolls.
Fun.