Lots of cooking today! Rodd made Lamb Biryani With Saffron, Yogurt, and Caramelized Onions, while I cooked up a big pot of Cajun red beans from scratch (including a smoked ham hock; rice to follow tomorrow)!

From last night’s dinner hash to today’s lunchtime quesadillas… 🍳

I’m excited to use my new #jawsug Pankration water bottle! But OH NO, I’m already behind schedule… (Thank you @shigeru_numa!) 😅 #hydration #aws

It’s always lovely when friends visit this part of the world! Thank you @shigeru_numa for making time to catch up with me tonight in Sydney. ❤️

We’ve checked out several of the new Metro stations in the past week. This one is Gadigal. I love how they’re all so different, yet futuristic and grand and open too. 🚇

Trust. ❤️💇‍♀️

We rode the new Metro, and we ate some pizza, and we saw a Talking Heads tribute band (complete with a big suit!), and we saw the remastered Stop Making Sense on a big screen with people dancing in the aisles. ❤️👔

Hooray! We are down to just one working fridge. 😅

Did you know Sydney has a cherry blossom festival? We went out to the @auburnbotanicgardens today to see the blossoms, eat chicken katsu sandos from @kenchancurry.au, and watch @hellokitty sing karaoke. 🌸🎋🇯🇵🇦🇺 #cherryblossomfestival

Progress update: The AC grills are on in the living room and bedroom! (Living room one needs the gaps at the sides filled, which will happen later.) Less attractive is the open trench alongside our house. Poor guy did it by hand so far and pulled out a lot of construction rubble. (Our neighbourhood is ex-industrial so it’s all backfill.) #renovation