A slow start to the year on the blog front - sorry. So what have we been up to?
Yum Cha! What is Dim Sum in America is a big deal in Sydney. There are numerous 300 plus seater locations and they are usually packed on the weekend. Kel & I teamed up with a couple of my Yum Cha eating buddies from back in the day, Sam and Christie, and hit one of my favorite locations ... the formerly known "Silver Spring" which has sneakily rechristened itself as the "Zilver Spring". A few cosmetic changes but the fish tanks are still there, it still packs them in so get there before 11:30am and the food is still awesome ... pork sticky buns, prawn dumplings, BBQ octopus... After a morning of engaging conversation covering the gammit from the merits of Sin City (it is now on my "to see" DVD list) to jokes about babies who wail like Macaws, I waddled out of there all for just AU$20.
Kelly has really stepped it up as cruise director since the start of the year with the highlight so far our trip to Jazz in the Domain last Saturday night. Part of the month long Festival of Sydney the concert was free and featured some very fun performers on stage and some crazy dancing off it (check out the links to get more of an idea):
http://www.smh.com.au/news/arts/trad-greats-ask-for-help/2006/01/14/1137119008471.html
We met a whole bunch of new people (all through a girl that Kelly has become friends with), I drank a little(much), helped myself to lots of other people's food and enjoyed the music. We headed out a little early to miss some possible bad weather and wandered through a very diverse crowd that had two obvious things in common - booze and bad dancing - it was a cross between people feeling the spirit at a southern revival and those wobbly legged runners at the end of a marathon. A funny way to finish a great night.
Happy new year everyone.
- Mark
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