A weekend getaway and a couple of cards

Last weekend my Fiance and I headed down to Sydney to go to see the UFC who had come to Australia for the first time.... and it was AWESOME!!

We headed down on Saturday morning and we were staying in the city at the Radisson which was only a 10 minute walk to the beautiful Darling Harbour. Saturday afternoon we hopped on a train and a bus to Bondi Beach to take a look around. There were so many people on the beach - it was crazy. Here is a picture of what the beach looked like. Bondi was a really nice area but with lots of 'different' kinds of people there!! My fiance and I decided the beaches on the Gold Coast are much better!!

Saturday night we met up with my cousins and their families for dinner at Darling Harbour. We had such a great night and their two little boys were just gorgeous. We don't get to see them very often but the older we get the more we try to catch up when possible. During dinner my cousin Ian started hyperventilating at the table as he saw some of the UFC fighters eating at the table behind us. We were all really excited as we had seen these guys on t.v but not in real life. We finally got the nerve to go over to the table - I usually wouldn't have but they hadn't even ordered food yet and my other cousin really gave us the push to go over. We met Rashad Evans who was sitting at the end of the table and was one of my favourite fighters. Sadly, he wasn't that friendly and didn't really want to talk to us or even take a photo but he actually did take a photo with us. He smiled in the photo which was nice of him but afterwards I had wished I hadn't bothered as he wasn't as friendly as he comes across on the t.v. :(

Later in the evening we went for a walk around the harbour and my Fiance had spotted another fighter from the UFC - Ryan Bader. Now, this guy was just lovely (and very cute too). He was so nice, he took a photo with my Fiance and then when I came back from where I was he took another shot with me in it too. Complete opposite of the first guy we had met. And to top it all off he won his fight the next day - that's Karma for you!! Now I didn't get the best photo of him and I couldn't fix it to be round the right way but I wanted to make sure you all got to see how so cute and big he was!!

Our weekend in Sydney was alot of fun. Sunday was fight day and all the fights were great. It was amazing to be in the crowd and cheer on the Australian fighters. Can't wait till it comes back to Australia. In the meantime, my fiance and I will just have to watch it on t.v.

Now, a quick little post as I promised my very good friend in Canada that I would post pictures of some cards I made at the Kaisercraft store in Robina. Here are two of the cards I made. I loved using the purple paper - I am not a big fan of purple but this paper was beautiful.

Finally, I hope you are all enjoying the Winter Olympic's. Australia has done pretty good if you ask me. It was great to watch the opening ceremony and I can't wait to watch the closing ceremony. I hope all my Vancouver family and friends are having the time of their life. Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi.

Till next time....